Fulton County GaArchives News.....Veteran in Home Charges Assault by Captain Force December 21 1910
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The Atlanta Georgia and News
Head of Soldiers Home Is Indicted Wednesday by the Grand Jury.

M. C. Few Testifies Against Superintendent.

Says Head of Confederate Retreat Used Heavy Stick and Beat Him After a Quarrel.

Captain A. W. Force, superintendent of the Confederate Soldiers Home, was 
indicted by the grand jury Wednesday ont he charge of assault and battery.  The 
prosecutor in the action is M. C. Few, a veteran inmate of the home.

The plaintiff asserts that the difficulty took place on Monday of this week and 
grew out of a former misunderstanding between himself and Captain Force.  
According to his own statement, Few accused Captain Force of misrepresenting 
some matter in which the former was involved.  A short time afterward, he says, 
the superintendent armed himself with a big stick and beat him severely.

Captain Force is himself an ex-Confederate soldier and has been in charge ofthe 
home for some years.  Both are well advanced in age.



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