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Sunday, June 8th, 1913
Colyar Addresses Felder as "Dictograph Tommy" and "My Dear Co-conspirator in Crime"
SEND HIM TO CREMATORY, SAYS DETECTIVE CHIEF
J. R. Gray Said: "I Have No Comment to Make—Mr. Felder's Controversy Is With A. S. Colyar"
Replying to the open letters of Thomas B. Felder, attacking them, A. S. Colyar and Chief of Detectives N. A. Lanford last night gave to The Journal statements, denouncing Mr. Felder in unmeasured terms. Chief of Police James L. Beavers, who was also the subject of attack, was out of the city and, therefore, could not be given the opportunity to reply.
James R. Gray, when shown Mr. Felder's communication, addressed to him, said:
"I have no comment to make on Mr. Felder's letter. His controversy is with A. S. Colyar. I suppose Mr. Colyar will wish to reply."
The statements of A. S. Colyar and Chief Lanford follow below in full:
COLYAR'S REPLY.
T. B. Felder Esq., alias Dictograph Tommy.
Sir: As you let last Sunday go by without attempting to prostitute the Sunday press with some more of your hot air and denials, I had thought that perhaps some good friend of yours had given you a hint that even a braying ass can sometimes kill himself and that you had probably decided to withdraw from it newspaper controversy. In my last letter that I wrote to you I offered you what I have been told by many good citizens was a fair proposition, viz: To let fiver honorable gentlemen decide who had lied in the controversy at issue, and you declined to accept the proposition. I will make you a second proposition: I do not know a single member of the honorable supreme court of Georgia, but I am willing to let the chief justice of that honorable court appoint a committee of five honorable citizens, non-residents of the city of Atlanta, and let this committee decide whether you are guilty of unprofessional conduct and a violator of the criminal laws of Georgia, by offering a bribe of $1,000 to G. C. Febuary to steal the papers for you out of the safe, in the Phagan case, and I will only have one request to make of the honorable chief justice when he appoints the committee, and that is that he appoint men in no way connected with the whisky interests and the immoral classes, among whom you have so many clients. I was satisfied when I made you the last proposition that you would not accept it, although I made it in good faith, and I repeat, that you may eliminate me entirely as a witness before the committee, and I have the witnesses of unimpeachable character that will brand you before this committee as a bribe giver, a lobbyist and a grafter. I believe that the people of this fair city are familiar with your record, as it was exposed from the pulpit by the Rev. Len G. Broughton in the Baptist Tabernacle in this city, who publicly denounced you as a lobbyist and a grafter. I have read your letter written this afternoon and addressed to the Hon. James R. Gray, editor and proprietor of The Journal.
Colyar Addresses Felder as "Dictograph Tommy" and "My Dear Co-conspirator in Crime"
SEND HIM TO CREMATORY, SAYS DETECTIVE CHIEF
J. R. Gray Said: "I Have No Comment to Make—Mr. Felder's Controversy Is With A. S. Colyar"
Replying to the open letters of Thomas B. Felder, attacking them, A. S. Colyar and Chief of Detectives N. A. Lanford last night gave to The Journal statements, denouncing Mr. Felder in unmeasured terms. Chief of Police James L. Beavers, who was also the subject of attack, was out of the city and, therefore, could not be given the opportunity to reply.
James R. Gray, when shown Mr. Felder's communication, addressed to him, said:
"I have no comment to make on Mr. Felder's letter. His controversy is with A. S. Colyar. I suppose Mr. Colyar will wish to reply."
The statements of A. S. Colyar and Chief Lanford follow below in full:
COLYAR'S REPLY.
T. B. Felder Esq., alias Dictograph Tommy.
Sir: As you let last Sunday go by without attempting to prostitute the Sunday press with some more of your hot air and denials, I had thought that perhaps some good friend of yours had given you a hint that even a braying ass can sometimes kill himself and that you had probably decided to withdraw from it newspaper controversy. In my last letter that I wrote to you I offered you what I have been told by many good citizens was a fair proposition, viz: To let fiver honorable gentlemen decide who had lied in the controversy at issue, and you declined to accept the proposition. I will make you a second proposition: I do not know a single member of the honorable supreme court of Georgia, but I am willing to let the chief justice of that honorable court appoint a committee of five honorable citizens, non-residents of the city of Atlanta, and let this committee decide whether you are guilty of unprofessional conduct and a violator of the criminal laws of Georgia, by offering a bribe of $1,000 to G. C. Febuary to steal the papers for you out of the safe, in the Phagan case, and I will only have one request to make of the honorable chief justice when he appoints the committee, and that is that he appoint men in no way connected with the whisky interests and the immoral classes, among whom you have so many clients. I was satisfied when I made you the last proposition that you would not accept it, although I made it in good faith, and I repeat, that you may eliminate me entirely as a witness before the committee, and I have the witnesses of unimpeachable character that will brand you before this committee as a bribe giver, a lobbyist and a grafter. I believe that the people of this fair city are familiar with your record, as it was exposed from the pulpit by the Rev. Len G. Broughton in the Baptist Tabernacle in this city, who publicly denounced you as a lobbyist and a grafter. I have read your letter written this afternoon and addressed to the Hon. James R. Gray, editor and proprietor of The Journal.
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00:00Scathing replies made to letters attacking them Atlanta Journal Sunday June 8th 1913
00:05Collier addresses Felder as dictograph Tommy and my dear co-conspirator in crime
00:10send him to crematory says Detective Chief Junior Gray said I have no comment to make Mr. Felder's
00:15controversy is with his Collier replying to the open letters of Thomas B. Felder attacking them
00:20as Collier and Chief of Detectives N.A. Lanford last night gave to the journal statements
00:25denouncing Mr. Felder in unmeasured terms Chief of Police James L. Beavers who was also the subject
00:31of attack was out of the city and therefore could not be given the opportunity to reply
00:36James R. Gray when shown Mr. Felder's communication addressed to him said I have no comment to make on
00:42Mr. Felder's letter his controversy is with A.S. Collier I suppose Mr. Collier will wish to reply
00:48the statements of A.S. Collier and Chief Lanford follow below in full Collier's reply T.B. Felder
00:54S.Q. alias dictograph Tommy. Sir as you let last Sunday go by without attempting to prostitute the
01:00Sunday press with some more of your hot air and denials I had thought that perhaps some good friend
01:05of yours had given you a hint that even a braying ass can sometimes kill himself and that you had
01:09probably decided to withdraw from it newspaper controversy in my last letter that I wrote to you
01:15I offered you what I have been told by many good citizens was a fair proposition viz to let five
01:20honorable gentlemen decide who had lied in the controversy at issue and you declined to accept
01:25the proposition I will make you a second proposition I do not know a single member of the honorable
01:31supreme court of Georgia but I am willing to let the chief justice of that honorable court
01:35appoint a committee of five honorable citizens non-residents of the city of Atlanta and let
01:41this committee decide whether you are guilty of unprofessional conduct and a violator of the
01:46criminal laws of Georgia by offering a bribe of one thousand dollars to G.C. February to steal the
01:52papers for you out of the safe in the Fagan case and I will only have one request to make
01:57of the
01:58honorable chief justice when he appoints the committee and that is that he appoint men in no way connected
02:03with the whiskey interests and the immoral classes among whom you have so many clients I was satisfied when
02:10I made you the last proposition that you would not accept it although I made it in good faith and
02:16I
02:16repeat that you may eliminate me entirely as a witness before the committee and I have the witnesses
02:22of unimpeachable character that will brand you before this committee as a bribe giver a lobbyist and a
02:27grafter I believe that the people of this fair city are familiar with your record as it was exposed
02:33from the pulpit by the Reverend Len G. Broughton in the Baptist Tabernacle in this city who publicly
02:39denounced you as a lobbyist and a grafter I have read your letter written this afternoon and addressed
02:45to the honorable James R. Gray editor and proprietor of the journal the clear purpose of that letter is
02:51a scurrilous attack upon me although you have addressed Mr. Gray I am no saint as I have told you
02:57before I have done wrong in my youth had strayed far away from the teachings and training of a Christian
03:01mother and a refined home and when I first met you I was trying to lead an honorable life although
03:06I was
03:07down and had you had as tenth of the instinct of the gentleman in you that James R. Gray has
03:12you would have tried to help me along life's pathway in an honorable way and not heed me to go
03:17to South
03:17Carolina to help you and your co-conspirators frame up against Governor Blee's has the records
03:22I have records in my possession that will show that a certain stool pigeon of yours furnished the money
03:27that you sent to me in South Carolina because you did not have the moral courage to do it yourself
03:32even though you have stated in me of your first articles that knowing my character that you refused
03:37to hire me to go to South Carolina for you to refresh your memory didn't you and one of your
03:42detectives to Charleston SC with a letter of introduction to me signed by you written on the
03:48letterhead of your then law firm Anderson Felder Roundtree and Wilson and furthermore when I left South
03:54Carolina on the fifth day of July 1911 I drew a draft on your friend for $30 which was endorsed
04:00by
04:00Reverend B. Lacey Hogue pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charleston SC and after you
04:06were through with me your friend protested this draft and sent it back with the statement that
04:10I had no authority to draw the same although I had drawn by authority several hundred dollars worth of
04:15similar drafts which Dr. Hogue had cashed and is it not a matter of fact that several weeks later
04:21the Reverend Dr. Hogue visited Atlanta from South Carolina and threatened to expose you and your
04:26friend if you didn't pay this draft and didn't you have it paid in your first statement of May 23d
04:32the day that the Atlanta Journal published the famous dictograph story you began to whine like a
04:38miserable oar I don't believe they had any dictograph for the company does not rent their machines to
04:43blackmailers and crooks to be used against gentlemen please tell the people of this city how you
04:48succeeded in getting one to dictograph Governor Blee's with in your letter to Mr. Gray you laid great
04:54stress upon the fact that he published the dictograph story which was the uncorroborated vaporings of the
05:00diseased mind of this mental hunchback and moral pervert especially when the mass of putrid matter
05:07furnished you by him bore all the earmarks of a willful and deliberate forgery and in view of the
05:12further fact that at least one other paper to which it was tendered rejected it this is another one of
05:18your frame-ups and willful and deliberate and false statements for the article in question was tendered
05:23no paper except the one that published it I defy you to publish any contract if you ever had one
05:28with the columns or any of their neighbors to prosecute the Fagan case and I made the assertion
05:34here that if you ever had any real desire to prosecute the murderers of this innocent child
05:38your desire was choked with the dollar mark in the interest of you and your friend affidavit Toby
05:44a willful lie you charge that Newport Lanford and I have been friends for three years
05:49and intimate that we have been in the blackmailing business against the citizens of Atlanta during
05:54that time Mr. Lanford is fully capable of answering you and taking care of himself in any controversy
06:00that he may have with you but for myself I denounce your statement a willful malicious infamous lie
06:07you further charge that Mr. February and myself were the ones that told you that Chief Beavers was corrupt
06:13and was visiting a woman on Garnett Street and that if the mayor would give us some special
06:18officers we would have him arrested I denounce this statement as a willful deliberate and infamous lie
06:24and that you knew you were lying at the time you made it I am sorry that my poverty forbids
06:30me from
06:30hiring a public hall in this city where I would take great pleasure in meeting you face to face
06:35before the good people of the city and exposing you from the platform as you should be exposed
06:40I could tell some things that I wouldn't even ask a respectable journal to publish and you know what
06:44they are I am surprised that a man of your alleged intelligence would make an attack that you have
06:50made upon a man with the diseased brain you say I have you laid great stress in your letter this
06:55afternoon on the fact that I was arrested for forgery by Chief Beavers on a telegram from Knoxville
07:00now why don't you go on and state that after Beavers held me under bond for six days that you
07:06and one of
07:06your henchmen that you have publicly claimed that you owned framed up a second arrest in the courthouse
07:12to intimidate me from going before the Fulton County Grand Jury and wasn't it done because
07:17you believed that the sheriff of this county in order to cater to your malice and spleen
07:20would send me to jail without bond and didn't you get made because you got sadly left in your
07:26letter to Mr. Gray this afternoon you charged that he paid me five hundred dollars for an alleged
07:30dictograph report and that after inspecting the same he reached the conclusion that it was faked
07:35and that under his direction some one or more of his employees proceeded to edit out of the
07:40manuscript the most glaring evidence of forgery and then published the same no one who has sense
07:46enough to stay out of the lunatic asylum will believe your assertion it is false from beginning
07:51to end a scandal monger you charge further that when your dear friend of twenty five years standing
07:57discovered the evidence of this record being faked that he summoned me to a hurried conference and that
08:02it was decided that Mr. Gentry must be hurried from the scene of action and that his notebook must be
08:07obtained and the name destroyed and you charge him with actually paying young gentry one hundred
08:12dollars to become a criminal and a fugitive from justice this assertion is too absurd and ridiculous
08:18to emanate from any brain except that of the scandal monger that you are whom the gods would
08:23destroy they first make mad and it would seem that the gods are determined to destroy you and you have
08:28no one to blame but yourself you have been given every chance to explain and to be allowed to prove
08:34the
08:34dictograph charges before five honorable citizens but you preferred to go to your friend hugh m dorsey
08:40whom you have publicly proclaimed that you own and tried to muddy the stream so that no investigation
08:45of your conduct could be successfully carried out were i the miserable villain and unfortunate outcast
08:50that you have described me and you and your friends have painted me in this city guilty of the crimes
08:56that you have committed in the last thirty days not only in the dictograph record but where you have
09:01attempted to say while under oath as i have been informed that i showed you an affidavit from one
09:06james conley claiming that he had murdered this poor girl i would have been disbarred as a lawyer and put
09:11in the chain gang and if i had attempted to put my hand in my hip pocket as you did
09:16in the courthouse
09:16last thursday i wouldn't have been allowed to go to the lavatory before i was searched you know why you
09:21wept you say that i called gentry's mother up on monday night after your card was published on sunday
09:27and tried to get her to get possession of the notebook i was informed that the lady was sick
09:31in bed and i'm surprised that she would have anything to do with you after you have charged
09:35that her son helped frame up a forged and perjured dictograph record on you evidently she don't know
09:41you you charge further in your letter that i went to your office after i was negotiating with mr gray
09:47for the sale of the dictograph manuscript and stated to you that i would call you over the phone and
09:52ask you
09:52if you would give one thousand dollars if i would deliver the goods and you were to reply yes and
09:58that i told you that this was a frame up to get dollar five hundred out of mr gray and
10:02that he
10:03fell like a sucker you further charge that mr gray and major jack cohen were on the line at the
10:08time
10:08listening to my conversation with you for the benefit of the public i wish to state that i had
10:13not seen mr gray in two years until the day before the atlanta journal published the story that tb felder
10:19had been dictographed and caught in the act of trying to steal the papers in the fagan case
10:24and that there was no understanding with mr james r gray major cohen or anyone connected with or
10:30representing the atlanta journal to pay me any sum for this story if i had expected or wanted any money
10:36for this story i think i am too good a student of human nature to insult mr james r gray
10:41by offering
10:42to sell him a framed up and forged dictograph record i note in your letter that you try to be
10:48serious
10:48and state that you are utterly indifferent to sensational and damaging publications reflecting
10:53upon your integrity of character such audacity ye gods have you got the audacity to claim that you
11:00have any character in this community after being caught in the act of trying to bribe a poor young
11:04boy who was struggling to make an honest livelihood to commit the crime of larceny for you in order that
11:10you might feast and fatten on the money that you could filch out of the citizens of atlanta while the
11:15blood of that poor murdered girl lies in a cob county tomb crying for vengeance and you were
11:20posing here as an employed prosecuting attorney when a majority of the people of this city believed
11:25that you were working in the interest of the man accused of the crime do you remember a conversation
11:30that you had with mr february and me in your office on monday night may 19th in which you laid
11:35great
11:36stress upon the fact that chief lanford had violated his oath of office by holding without warrant of law
11:41jim conley a poor innocent negro did you not know at that time what conley knew and why were you
11:48so
11:48anxious to have conley released and cared nothing for the other two negroes who were held without
11:52warrant of law why has the public heard no more of your patriotic intentions to prosecute leo m frank
11:58since the atlanta journal published the dictograph story and the public got wise and the money stopped
12:03coming into your coffers now my co-conspirator in crime if you really and truly wanted to prosecute the
12:10murderer of mary fagan why didn't you volunteer to do it like any honorable attorney would and not
12:14have one of your pikers try to palm you off on jw coleman as he swore that you did my
12:20dear
12:20dictograph friend i love a fight that is an honorable one but i hate to fight a poor weak miserable
12:25thing
12:25like you that will hide behind governors mayors and solicitors general that you claim to own
12:29no one believes half of your gas about owning governors but it does look strange that the solicitor
12:34general would not allow a full searchlight to be turned upon your acts in this community since
12:38the dictograph exposure came out if i were you before i paraded to the world about graft and
12:44corruption in others i would stop and think how many people you had grafted in state legislatures
12:48and federal prisons as you did your poor dying friend chas w morse recently elected president of
12:54a steamship line you talk about justice poor justice it is asleep if you had justice you would now be
13:01a
13:01guest of warden tom lanford in the city stockade i know that it is sad to think that you and
13:05your friend
13:06of 25 years standing will not be able to celebrate that silver anniversary alas they have been friends
13:11in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth and constancy only lives in realms above and life
13:18is thorny and youth is vain and to be wroth with one we love doth work like madness in the
13:23brain
13:24we'll write him a letter now in conclusion permit me to say a few things to you as this will
13:29probably
13:29be the last letter that i will ever have the pleasure of writing you with one exception i am going
13:35to visit
13:35my native land my beloved tennessee within whose sacred soil sleeps all that is mortal of a sweet
13:41sainted mother a noble father and brothers and sisters while in this land of my nativity that
13:46such heroes as john severe andrew jackson james k polk andrew johnson and last but not least
13:52the great apostle of sunshine robert love taylor made immortal i intend to visit knoxville the city
13:58that you claim i am a fugitive of justice from and i shall write you a letter from that city
14:03but i will
14:03not write it from the knox county jail and i would indeed take great pleasure in receiving a reply from
14:08you dated columbia sc though it would give me pain to know that my former co-conspirator in crime against
14:14governor cole l bleese was languishing in a south carolina jail as i know you would be if you were
14:20in the palmetto state you only escaped going there through the mercy of an all-wise providence and the
14:25misplaced charity of his excellency jose m brown governor of georgia felder as a lawyer you talk about
14:32your great and unblemished character as a lawyer at the atlanta bar when if the truth were known
14:37when god almighty created you tommy he hadn't dreamed of a lawyer in six months he was thinking
14:42of a pea in a pod rusting away in the ante room of some legislative hall seeking some poor hillbilly
14:49senator that you might flatter or bribe into voting on some pet scheme of some corporation
14:53that has heretofore hired you as one of their lobbyists to hang around legislative halls i am indeed
14:59sorry that i the poor moral pervert and degenerate irresponsible creature that you claim me to be
15:05have to write you thus because i know that you imagine that everyone must bow at your sweet will
15:10and that no one must attack your motives or answer any of your villainous inclinations
15:15poor moral degenerate that i am i wish to say to you that my forefathers shed blood at king's mountain
15:21and some of them died upon the fields of shiloh and i would be unworthy of the blood that courses
15:26through my veins if i would let you the miserable bribe giver lobbyist and grafter that you are
15:32known to be drive me out of the state of georgia that has been made famous by such sons as
15:37alexander
15:37stevens john b gordon robert toombs and benjamin h hill no doubt you have discovered by now that even
15:43with your two frame ups to land me in jail i am still at williams house number two city of
15:49atlanta made
15:50famous by the dictograph which you stated at the transportation club after you had dictographed governor
15:55bleese would not lie when it caught you in the act of trying to steal the papers in the mary
16:00fagan
16:01murder case you denounced in unmeasured terms your dictograph friend which had been so faithful to
16:06you in days gone by as i told the grand jury of fulton county you were a framer from framerville
16:12but your frames are too shallow to stand the storms that follow as you evidently have found out
16:17farewell dictograph tommy if we never meet again on life's scene of action and i should be so unfortunate
16:22as not to reach the city of heavenly rest pleased by charitable enough in hades not to tell his
16:27satanic majesty that i was one of your co-conspirators in south carolina for if you do he will make
16:33life
16:33in the lower regions very uncomfortable for me as collier atlanta georgia june 7th 1913
16:41unprincipled prevaricator says chief lanford when acquainted with the contents of felder's open
16:46letter of attack upon him detective chief n a lanford gave out the following statement i regret
16:51exceedingly the necessity which forces me into a controversy with an irresponsible unprincipled
16:56prevaricator like felder he is a stranger to truth and his chief claim to notoriety is based upon
17:02the reckless slanders which he periodically vomits forth upon his betters his entire attack on me is
17:08woven with a warp of lies and a woof of hypocrisy it is fortunate for me and the other objects
17:13of his
17:14venom that he has by his questionable performances of the past made himself sufficiently well known to
17:19the general public for it to know with what credence to receive his vicious but silly onslaughts
17:25at frequent intervals for many years i have read of felder's controversies in each of them he has
17:30always assumed a bombastic attitude and has rushed into print with all the abandon of a fool hurling
17:35unsupported charges here and slinging lies yonder and to save my life i cannot recall that he ever made
17:41good in a single one of his many wrangles felder says that i have known collier for three years and
17:47that i have been conniving with him for that period this is a lie the first time i ever saw
17:52or heard of
17:52collier was about a week or ten days after the fagan murder and i have never met him more than
17:57a dozen
17:57times since when he says that i have been conspring with collier to frame up on citizens of this community
18:03he tells a black and contemptible lie a lie uttered by a craven coward of the blackest type
18:09there is no spark of manhood left in him or he would not give utterance to such unfounded statements
18:14he lies again he says i promised searles that i would not use his name here again he lies
18:20all i said to searles while negotiating with him to install the dictograph was that i intended to use
18:26it in the interest of justice he says i mislead and duped young gentry the stenographer who took down
18:32the dictograph conversations again he lies i have never seen gentry but once in my life and that was
18:38in my office on the morning of the day felder walked into the dictograph trap i was seeking to
18:42obtain services of an accurate and reliable stenographer and had my secretary call up edward
18:47crissell an expert court stenographer mr crissell stated that he was just about to leave the city
18:53and furnished my secretary with the names of one or two other stenographers they were called up but
18:58were out then my secretary suggested gentry whom he said was a clean reliable young man and rapid
19:04shorthand writer i had gentry called up and requested him to come to my office in acquainting
19:10him with the work which i desired him to do i sought to impress upon him that all i wanted
19:14was a true and
19:15correct record of what came to him over the wires of the dictograph i told him that i would expect
19:20him
19:20to swear to the accuracy of the record he made and inquired his age he told me that he had
19:25passed his
19:26twenty-first birthday about a week before felder says i had call your call up gentry's home and say
19:31that unless the young man furnished me his notebook i would be in a hell of a fix this too
19:36is a lie i
19:37never had call your call up gentry or anybody else he says i sent gentry out of town and furnished
19:42him
19:42the money to go on another lie on the saturday morning after the dictograph incident gentry talked
19:49to me over the telephone he said that he had been advised that there was a warrant out for him
19:53charging
19:53him with conspiracy i told him that was all bosh and suggested to him that if he was annoyed by
19:59anyone to let me know and i would attend to them he thanked me and that was the last i've
20:05heard of
20:05him hasn't paid him yet i not only did not furnish gentry with money to leave town but the young
20:11man
20:11has never yet called upon me for pay for his services which i contracted for in good faith and
20:17for which i expect to pay felder lies again when he says i stood over gentry and compelled him to
20:22doctor
20:23the dictograph records as i said above i never saw gentry but once and that was for but a few
20:29minutes
20:29in my office before the dictograph was even installed when the dictograph records were brought
20:34to me they had been typewritten and duly sworn to by gentry felder lies when he says that i have
20:40stated
20:40that i know gentry's whereabouts at the request of his relatives i did make efforts to locate him
20:46later these relatives got into communication with him and notified my secretary that he would be on
20:51hadn't when he was wanted i sincerely hope he does return to the city i will welcome a statement from
20:58him giving all the facts about the dictograph matter fedler says that i conspired with collier to frame
21:03up affidavits to the effect that he felder had run gentry out of town to keep him away from the
21:09grand
21:09jury this is another of his multitude of lies he is so accustomed to lying that he just cannot tell
21:15the
21:15truth i have never heard of any such affidavit the most amusing of all felder's lies is that i am
21:21in
21:22a conspiracy with governor bleese of south carolina to get him into that state and that i plan to
21:27kidnap him put him into an automobile and rush him over the border now of all the absurd propositions
21:34that is the limit felder evidently suffers many and varied hallucinations i cannot conceive how it is
21:40possible for a man of sound mentality to conjure up such a ridiculous idea and to think he actually
21:46offers it to the public as a fact i have known for a long time that whenever felder heard the
21:50name of
21:51bleese mentioned cold chills chased up and down his quavering spine and he invariably looked about him
21:57for assassins kidnappers and spooks send him to crematory i don't know of an automobile sorry enough
22:04to use in transporting felder but it would be a godsend to the community if one of the garbage carts
22:09would get him and carry him to the crematory i would dislike very much indeed to impose such a
22:14carcass on the good old state of south carolina i have never had any direct or indirect communication
22:19with governor bleese and the only time that i remember mentioning him was when i suggested that
22:24i would take ass collier to knoxville 10 without extradition papers if he felder would waive legal
22:31formalities and go with one of my men to columbia where governor bleese could press his charges against
22:35him having disposed of felder's lies i wish to ask him the following questions where is the money you
22:40grafted from the public through the plea that you wish to bring detectives here to find evidence to
22:45convict the murderer of mary fagan failing to get the coleman's to employ you why did you go to new
22:50york and then come back here with the statement that you were employed by friends of the slain girl
22:54to assist the prosecution if you were acting in good faith why did you attack chief beavers and myself
23:00for keeping jim conley the only witness who knows anything about the murder of the fagan girl in jail
23:06if you were acting in good faith why did you not also criticize us for holding newt lee the negro
23:12night watchman and gordon bailey the negro elevator boy who have both been held just as long as jim
23:17conley you butted in i've been forced to doubt your good faith in this case i didn't drag you into
23:23it you
23:23butted in you are sure because i exposed you by allowing the publication of the coleman affidavit
23:29showing that the dead girl's parents had refused to employ you this publication also exposed your
23:34scheme to graft on the public through a subscription as i have said before you butted into the fagan
23:40case where you were not wanted and as a public official it became my duty to allow the publication
23:45of the coleman affidavit made without my knowledge in order that the good people of this and other
23:50cities may not be imposed upon any further by such a grafter having exposed some of your numerous
23:56lies and your thorough unreliability i now leave you to your hallucinations n.a lanford
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