Tuggle

Arraigned before a De Kalb County, Ga., grand jury last week was one Will Tuggle, Justice of the Peace, employe of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association until it squabbled with Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and abandoned work on its gigantic live-rock monument to the Confederate dead (TIME, March 2, 1925). Will Tuggle had tugged a pail of ''colored brick-water" to the mountaintop, dumped it on the back of General Lee's carved horse, Traveller, in such a way that the liquid trickled below the horse and made a large unsightly stain.

Will Tuggle's defense: Above the figures of General Lee & Traveller and reappearing beneath them is a crevice. Unless something is done, this crevice will become a rift, the rift a mountainslide which will carry with it the entire memorial. Unable to convince the Association of this, Will Tuggle made his practical, "brick-water" demonstration. Said he, proudly: "What I did was as much for the benefit of the Association as for the public at large."

Will Tuggle was not indicted.

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