Sunday, 16th November 1913: Woman And Daughter Drugged And Robbed, The Atlanta Journal

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Shows How Real Brotherly

Love Lasts Through Both

Prosperity and Adversity

Editor Firing Line: I never let go far

away but what I think of home and friends. Home influences are the best. But

what are friends? Tom Moore said: There was nothing true but heaven.

I would love to furnish a story for your

partner, a true Atlanta story of how a young man struggling for life gained a

home and family, Christian friends who were all pie. A little later when

misfortune came, those same Christian friends went. And how he struggled

against adversity without the smile and bows and nods so accustomed to from

those who had always pretended to be his friends, who had always extended the

welcome hand. And when amid the ruins, success began to return success without

their help, success without the old-time friendship, they began once more to

look upon him. He had done nothing to merit such treatment, was not under the

eyes of suspicion, had committed no crime, no wrong, was at fault nowhere more

than he could not make money as fast as some others in his set. He said to me,

The Gentiles are not like the Jews. The Jews are a better people. They stick

to their race when trouble comes. They went with Leo M. Frank through all the

stormy period of his trouble, and they are with him still. Their friendship

hangs on, clings like the vine through winter and summer, always remaining the

same.

Not so with my race of people, he

said. They are your friends as long as you are successful. When you fail,

their friendship fails. You need not be placed in the attitude of defending

yourself, for some alleged crime. Simply show a losing side. Where does

Christianity come in? What was the teaching of Christ? Who is your friend?

Now that the old-time friends of my

friend can see that death and destruction is not his, that he can live without

them, they begin once more to show him some of their little precious

courtesies, perhaps I should have said treacherous courtesies. What was the

world made for? What are we here for? Is

it to persecute mankind or to lift him up and help him on the way to a better

life? We all know how the Hon. James G. Woodward was treated at one time. I can

not, for my part, believe there is much sincerity in the loud-mouthed Puritans

of the day wanting to clean out everything and make people good. They should

first be cleaned out themselves and taught self-examination. Let us have peace,

good will, love and friendship for all human kind, rich or poor, great or

small. Whether you are willing to believe God will bless it or not, you will

get lots of satisfaction out of it in this life. Do you ought to do and whether

there is another life or not you will get contentment and happiness in this.

Yours truly,

W. W. JENKINS.

Press

Chairman Ga. T. P. A.

November

4, 1913.

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SMUTTIEST

CASE EVER,

SAYS JUDGE

PENDLETON

Reaches

Limit in Divorce

Cases When Hearing Plea

of Earl Denham

Judge John T. Pendleton, of the

superior court, reached the limit in divorce cases Saturday.

When he had completed the hearing of

the petition of Mrs. Beulah Denham for alimony from Earl Denham, reputed to be

a wealthy Morgan county farmer, he said:

This is positively the smuttiest

case I ever listened to. If one-third of what is alleged on both sides is true,

then you two people are not fit to live in a civilized community.

Judge Pendleton then refused the wifes

plea for alimony.

Mrs. Beulah Denham charged that her

husband, together with his housekeeper, a Mrs. Daisy Thaxton, practically drove

her from the home in 1908. She charged that the housekeeper took charge of the

establishment, and ordered her, the wife, around as if she was a servant. Her

husband insisted on keeping the housekeeper despite her pleas, she alleged.

Denham, answering, declared that his wife would not be content in the country

and that she, during the period of their married life, often deserted him for

months at a time.

He alleges that his wife was so

insanely jealous that she coupled his name with that of practically every woman

in the community in which they lived. He denies very vigorously all of her

charges relative to Mrs. Thaxton.

Much of the evidence was submitted in

the form of affidavits and many and many varied charges and counter charges

were made. It developed that Mrs. Denham, after she left her home in 1908,

wrote certain letters to Mrs. Thaxton, which were couched in endearing terms,

it is said.

Judge Pendleton declared in passing on

the case that he would have awarded the wife alimony had it not been for the

letters to Mrs. Thaxton. He couldnt reconcile these letters, he said, with

Mrs. Denhams charge against her and her statement that the housekeeper and her

husband drove her from home.

Both sides were represented by

attorneys, who came here from Morgan County for the hearing.

PAGE 63, COLUMN 6

SUPREME COURT OF GA.

Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 15, 1913.

JUDGEMENTS AFFIRMED.

Southern Railway Company vs. Black et

al.: from Whitfield superior courtJudge Fite. Maddox, McCamy & Shumate,

George G. Glenn, for plaintiff in error. C. D. & F. K. McCutchen, W. E.

Mann, R. R. Arnold, contra.

Georgia Cane Products Company vs. Corn

Products Refining Company; from Muscogee-Judge Gilbert. Slade & Swift, for

plaintiff in error. James W. Austin, Love & Fort, contra.

Holmes vs. Schwab & Sons; from

CripsJudge George. W. F. Hall, E. F. Strozier, for plaintiff in error. Whipple

& McKenzie, contra.

Southern Coal and Coke Company vs.

Randall; from FultonJudge Pendleton. Horton Brothers & Burress, for

plaintiff in error. Edgar A. Neely, contra.

Chancey vs. State; from Jeff

DavisJudge Conyers. J. C. Bennett, W. W. Bennett, for plaintiff in error.

Thomas S. Felder, attorney general, J. H. Thomas, solicitor general, contra.

Webb et al., trustees, vs. Jackson et

al.; from HeardJudge R. W. Freeman. Hall & Jones, for plaintiffs in error.

O. A. Moore, contra.

Millsaps vs. Georgia Pine Company; from

Turner (certified by the court of appeals). Statute held constitutional. A. S.

Bussey, for plaintiff in error. Hardeman, Jones, Park & Johnston, contra.

JUDGEMENTS REVERSED.

McConnell vs. Gregory: from BerrienJudge

Thomas. Hendricks & Christian, for plaintiff in error. Alexander &

Gary, contra.

Central of Georgia Railway Company vs.

Wallace; from HoustonJudge Matthews. Ellis & Jordan, for plaintiff in

error. Guerry, Hall & Roberts, Nottingham & Nottingham, contra.

Shaw vs. Henderson Lumber Company from

BerrienJudge Thomas. Hendricks & Christian, Knight. Christian &

Gaskins, J. J. Murray, for plaintiff in error. H. J. Quincey, J. D. Lovett,

contra.

DISMISSED.

Bozeman vs. Ward-Trutt Company; from WorthJudge Frank Park.

Perry, Foy & Minx, for plaintiff in error. L. D. Passmore, C. E. Hay,

contra. (Leave granted to enter exceptions pendente lite.)