Butts County GaArchives News.....Mrs. Mollie Fuson Acquitted September 16 1892
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of September 16, 1892
On Monday morning Mrs. Mollie Furson was arranged before Judge Bailey on the 
charge of cheating and swindling

It will be remembered that about the first of last May this woman came to 
Jackson, representing a new dress cutting patent of her own get up.  She 
offered both the patterns for cutting and tock in her company for sale.  She 
had a splendid tact for business, and quickly succeeded in finding purchasers.  
She also wished to employ some skilled dressmakers to go to Atlanta and run an 
extensive dressmaking establishment there.  In this she employed Mrs. Paul, but 
would not do so until Mrs. Paul agreed to invest three hundred dollars in 
purchasing stock in the Fuson Company.  Almost immediately after Mrs. Paul had 
paid her the money, it began to be rumored that the company was a myth and the 
stock no good.  Mrs. Paul then asked her to return her money, but she refused 
to do it.  Mrs. Paul then instituted suit to recover her money, claiming that 
the whole thing was a swindle.  Mrs. Fuson was arrested and kept in the custody 
of Deputy Sheriff J. M. Crawford, at his home, until the trial. 

She was represented by Col. M. V. McKibben and Col. J. W. Preston, of Macon, 
while the state was represented by Wright & Beck and Col. Anderson.  The case 
was hotly contested on both sides, and it took about all day to hear the 
testimony, and the speaking continued till near midnight, when the jury went to 
their room, where they remained but a short time and returned a verdict of not 
guilty.

Much has been said and written to the discouragement of Mrs. Fuson, while she 
has letters of recommendation from some prominent men in Tennessee.  But the 
jury says she is not guilty.  The case brought by the Morrison House for board 
was also decided in her favor.




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