A Recent Georgia Peonage Case
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"Having made no record of the change, when he concludes to sell his property he may experience some difficulty in satis
husband, or to her maiden name, if she desires. Judge Withrow’s conclusion is that
fying a would-be purchaser as to his identity."
"the well-defined road to a change of name, marked out by the statute, is ordinarily much safer and more desir able than the dim pathway of the com
In commenting on the change that
occurs in a woman's name on her mar riage, the judge observes that this is really by process of law, since it becomes a matter of legal record. “The ladies,” he
mon law." “It is well settled, however," he adds,
adds, "always reserve the right to change
adjudicated cases, that, in the absence
their names or their minds at pleasure.”
In cases where a woman obtains a
"both by the elementary writers and the of fraud or injury to the rights of others,
decree of divorce, the court, on her request, is required to make an order
a person may change his name at pleas ure and transact business and execute contracts, sue and be sued in any name
changing her name to that of any former
he may assume."
A Recent Georgia Peonage Case THROWING A SIDELIGHT ON LEGAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH UDGE EMORY SPEER of the United States District Court for Georgia presided recently at the remarkable and lengthy trial of four citizens of Pulaski county, William Chauncey, Luke Du
pree, John Ross Rodgers and Joan Horne,
charged
with
the
crime
of
what he had better do about it, and was advised to swear out a warrant, which Talmadge accordingly did, though
the burglary was committed by his wife's own daughter and son-in-law. Judge Pearce also told Talmadge that as his wife had died and he did not need
peonage. The defendants had for their counsel the Attorney-General-elect of Georgia, who used such language in his uncomplimentary references to the
the stolen articles, he might well accept money from the culprits and drop the
negroes in the case as to bring upon
to let the matter drop if he were paid. Accordingly, an officer named Harp,
himself the displeasure of the court.
charges, and suggested that he notify the justice of the peace and the bailifi
home of one Bill Talmadge, taking six plates and other articles of small value. Talmadge asked Judge Pearce
accompanied by one Hunt, called at the plantation on which the negro couple were employed, armed with Talmadge’s warrant for their arrest. The owner of the plantation, Dupree, met them, learned their business and in response
of the city court of Pulaski county
to appeals from the negroes to save
The facts will impress many of our
readers as singular. Two negroes, Clyde and Maud Wimberly, burglarized the
