1915 August 27 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
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- 1915 August 27 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
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1915 August 27 Atlanta Constitution 12 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1915
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 1 Bribery Charge Hurled, When Education Board Meets, Causes Fist Fight Alderman Armistead Accus- ed of Offering Money to Induce Signer of Petition Against Change in Geogra- phies to Withdraw Name. EUBANKS’ RIGHT THUMB BROKEN WHILE ACTING IN ROLE OF PEACEMAKER Fight Followed a Heated Discussion in Effort to Have Board Reconsider Its Action in Making Change in Geographies. Charged with offering a bribe to a Signer of an injunction Petition against the Board of Education, in order to get him to withdraw his name, Alderman Jesse W. Armistead, Member of the Board, Thursday afternoon resented the attack of his Accuser, Walter Fudge, a Printer on The Atlanta Georgian , by following him into the hall just outside the Chamber of Commerce Assembly Hall and engaging in a fist fight. George F. Eubanks, another Member of the Board, rushed to the scene in time to interfere after only one blow had been struck. Luther H. Still, a labor leader, who was with Fudge, also came between the Combatants and as he took charge of Fudge and pushed him down the stairs, the latter hurled a copy of Tarr & McMurray’s Geography at Armistead, just as the Alderman was shoved back into the Assembl