| Show i GEORGIA GIRL BEATEN BY FATHER OF MAN SHE LOVED LOVEl TO SEEK BALM ii t S 'S f 1 b t I-t ck t l. l t 4 c t PI Lv Q iA 4 J A 4 4 t f f tt- tt r rK K I I t tI I i 1 I I I I 1 4 k ESSIE CARTER pain izi wounds Inflicted by the father of theman the tho thoman man she says she loves Essie Carter of Dawson Ga declares that she sho will sue her assailant for heavy damages probably The Tho man who at attacked attacked at- at tacked her hei is V. W. S. S Dozier clerk of the superior court in Dawson The son Is Vogt Dozier The injured woman Is Isnow isnow now In Macon Ga where she Is s slowly recovering from froni her wounds She has employed a Macon attorney The story of the tho attack on Essie Carter Cartor Car Car- ter tor Is almost without parallel in recent Georgia history She was taken from her bed late one night by W W. S. S Dozier Do and a half dozen men among them a negro carried to the road and there almost Into ity The motive of the men and especially espe espe- daIly of the elder Dozier was to punish pun pun- ish the young woman for lavishing her attentions upon Vogt Dozier Dopier Young Dozier was in love with her Ills father did not approve of this and some weeks asro trave her notice to leave Dawson Shin She left but later returned Then followed the whipping The Tho Carter woman says her hor cries o of pain and pleadings for mercy were unheeded h by the men who flogged her On the contrary parts of her nightgown were stuffed In her mouth to stop her cries The man who laid on the lash did not nor stop until he was so tired he could continue no I longer on ger At first tile the life of the injured woman was despaired of She was brought to Macon however and un under Un- Un der dor the best medical attention is slowly recovering The accompanying picture was taken of her as she lay in bed propped up by pillows The elder Dozier does not deny the Carter womans woman's story He defends his action on the ground that It was nieces nieces- necessary sary to save his son eon He has issued a statement in which he says We have In our home a very way way- ward boy who in spite of or au all that ni nis mother and I my sons and our I friends could do has proven Incorrigible Incorrigible gible to date but he is ours and w wo hope to yet reclaim him In our ef- ef forts forto to do so this woman Essle Car Carter Car Car- ter crossed the pathway and ap apparently apparently ap- ap infatuated him with the re result re- re suit sult that his conduct became disgraceful die dis graceful and criminal It was very humiliating to my family Thi municipal officers appealed to me I and while advising mo me that he and I this woman were guilty of various crimes invoked invoIced my aid and promised their operation co-operation in bringing their re ro- ro lations to an end Thereupon I had hada a LI personal conference with Essio Essie Carter Car Car- ter and stated to her my position Inthe in th the matter and requested her to leave the city of Dawson This she sho did Immediately thereafter our boy re returned ro- ro turned to our home and so far as we e know was attempting to lead an upright upright up up- right life dieted by the grand jury in her Ab Absence ab- ab sence and later like all of her kind returned to the city of Dawson Dasson She Sho was promptly arrested and placed In Jail and July 18 gave bond She had no business in Dawson except such as could have been concluded through her bankers In Macon and anI none of which had not been concluded when she sho made bond She did not return here for the purpose of being arrested She re resumed resumed re- re residence in the tho restricted district dis dis- and our boy left home I was advised on Saturday night July 20 O that ho he was with her and that the she would not permit him to return home and openly defied me in my efforts to terminate their relations I could not submit to this nor ny other Interference Inter ference with my attempt to reclaim my boy I have havo no excuse to offer for him and while my Judgment may bo be erroneous ous I have no excuse to offer for my efforts to reclaim him |
