Georgia:  Chattooga County:  Newspaper, Alexander Potter Pleads 
Guilty 
6 May 1920

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Young Potter Gets Six Years. 
Boy Who Shot at Teacher Pleads Guilty. 
Quick Justice Is Meted Out to Youth 
Who Resented Discipline. 
Lyerly, Ga. May 6. 1920

Alexander Potter, 15 year-old son of Ed 
Potter, of Summerville, entered a plea of guilty to the 
charge of assault with intent 
to murder in Chattooga Superior Court 
Wednesday, and was sentenced by 
Judge Moses Wright to serve six years 
in the state reformatory. The Potter boy 
had some trouble with his teacher, Prof. 
Wyatt Ransom, at the Summerville 
High school last Thursday and it was 
necessary for the teacher to expel the 
youth from school. Potter went home and 
procured his father's pistol and later went 
to the tennis court. where Prof. Ransom and some 
other parties were playing 
tennis. When the game had been 
finished and Prof. Ransom started across 
the street to his boarding house, young 
Potter opened fire upon him with the 
pistol, shooting six times. None of the 
shots took effect, and as soon as the 
revolver had been emptied the boy 
broke and ran, but was caught after a 
short chase and placed in the county jail. 
The grand jury returned a true bill against 
him for assault with intent to murder and 
he went before Judge Wright and 
entered a plea of guilty to the charge.