From Days Gone By. April 14, 1923

April 14, 1922.

    The incorporated company known as the Johnson County Fair Association was made a defendant in a death damage suit filed by Mrs. A. Walden through her attorneys Evans &  Evans of Sandersville, for the mammoth sum of $20,000. A. Walden died from bullet wounds inflicted at the fair grounds last fall during a scuffle in which officer W. J. Crawford and James Price were implicated. Price was hit in the hip. Officer Crawford received a blow on the head from a cane in the hands of Walden, claimed eye witnesses.
    In her contentions, Mrs. Walden sets up that Crawford was in the employ of the fair association, knowing that he was habitually drinking, that he had been drunk and that Crawford killed Walden. Her alligations are bitterly denied as Judge Ben Hill Moye is attorney for the fair association.
    Resulting from this suit a warrant was sworn out by Crawford charging James Price with killing Walden. To even up matters and to try to substantiate his contentions and those of Mrs. Walden, Price swears out a warrant for Crawford for the same offense.
    The latest developments are about these as near as can be told. But still another feature of the case comes from the tomb of Mr. Walden. It is reported here that some time last week the attorneys for Mrs. Walden had the body exhumed and called in a physician to examine it and cut out the bullet which is said to be still in the hands of the physician who lives up near where the body is buried. The size of the bullet will have something to do with the aspect of the situation.
    A hearing was demanded by Mr. Crawford and Judge Ferguson set a time for it. Moye & Shurling represent Crawford. Judge Blount is Price's lawyer.
    The Supreme Court of Georgia has put to rest all the trouble and dispute over the cattle dipping question in this state when it rendered the decision in the case carried up from Johnson County by Mr. John R. Rowland vs. Sheriff Lewis Davis and C. E. Morris, State Cattle Inspector of this county last year.
    The court held that the inspector and the sheriff were authorized to quarentine and dip the cattle of Rowland's without any warrants and that the lower court did not err in refusing to grant an injunction under the pleadings and facts in the case. The court took judicial cognizance of the fact that Texas fever, a communicable disease, is prevalent in all counties of the state where tick eradication has not been completed and that this state of affairs existed in Johnson County.
    He says the statute is not unconstitutional for any reason alleged. They say quarentine and dipping of the cattle is only available and efficient method of accomplishing the ends sought. The statute is the warrant for the inspector and the sheriff to seize, quarentine and treat cattle. No warrant from any court is necessary, they added.
    Prohibition officers have been after moonshiners down in Emanuel County for some time, but last week they ran up against a bar with a wick on his name and before the light went out on this shine one of the prohis was carrying off some buckshot in his flesh. Many a life has been put to blink on account of this illicit distilling business and we are actually afraid that before it is even curbed in some counties that many more will go down.