Friday, 28th November 1913: Judge Roan Saves Youth From Sentencing Himself, The Atlanta Constitution

To a Term in

Chaingang

One of Judge L. S. Roans last official

acts as a Fulton county superior court judge was the saving of a young lad on

Saturday from sentencing himself to the chaingang.

Davis Bonner, aged 16, recently was

arrested on a charge of burglary. He was indicted and faced a long chaingang

sentence. It developed during his stay in jail that the lad had sworn that he

was 18 years of age when in reality he was but 16.

When Judge Roan learned the fact

through a plea to the jurisdiction of the criminal court, filed by Attorney

Leonard Grossman, on behalf of the Associated Charities, the lad was bound over

to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, to be tried next Tuesday.

Solicitor

Dorsey concurred in the plea to the jurisdiction and recommended that the lad

be bound over.

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Well-Known

People

Join Panama Party

Leaving on Dec. 2

A number of well-known Atlanta people

have joined the party of Georgians leaving on December 2 to visit Panama and

Central America. The party will make an 18-day tour, sailing from New Orleans

on the steamship Cartago on December 3, and ending the journey in Atlanta on

December 19. Besides spending several days in seeing the isthmus from one end

to the other and inspecting the stupendous work of construction in progress,

the party will visit Costa Rica, spending one day in San Jose, the most

remarkable city in Central America. The trip will be under the direction of

John T. North, 121 Peachtree street, who has already made a large number of

reservations on the steamer.

Among those

included in the party are Dr. and Mrs. E. L. Connally, P. G. Hanahan, Mrs. F.

T. Lamb, Louis Camak. L. N. Hudson, Dr. Harry E. Stockbridge, W. M. Nichols,

Miss Sally Brown, Mrs. Luther Z. Rosser, Miss Lizzie Macauley, Mrs. Horace

Jones, Elijah A. Brown, Mrs. M. Wallace, Miss M. Walker. M. Lee Bonner, of

Birmingham; Judge and Mrs. R. T. Daniel, of Griffin; R. D. Stubbs, Judge W. G.

Wingfield, T. J. Spivey and F. L. Batchelor, of Eatonton; A. S. Johnson; Dr. D.

A. Bagley, G. W. Bagley and L. C. Summerford of DeSoto, Ga., and others.