Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1903 — How They Treated an Enemy. [ARTICLE]

How They Treated an Enemy.

George Moore pleaded guilty to burglary the other (lay in the Superior Court at Atlanta, Ga. He said that he had been a Union soldier and begged for mercy. The jury, made up of Confederate veterans, recommended leniency. The judge, William T. Gary, formerly a Confederate major, fined the man sl. The sheriff, John W. Clark, once a Confederate captain, paid the fine. The solicitor, son of a Confederate officer, ordered the dollar given to the Union soldier. As the old soldier left the dock weeping the spectators arose and remained standing until he left the courtroom. That night former Confederates made up a purse and sent the mrfn to his home in Kentucky. He is 70 years old, and in dire necessity burglarized a store in Atlanta.