Honeymoon

Majority stockholder of the potent Atlanta Journal is wrinkled, wealthy Mrs. Richard Gray. One of her sons is the Journal's Editor James Richard Gray. One of her grandsons, and Editor Gray's nephew, is 29-year-old Richard Gray Gallogly. To the many sorrows he has brought on his doting grandmother, Dick Gallogly last week added another, thereby giving Georgia its juiciest crime story in many a day.

In 1928, dissolute, giddy Dick Gallogly, a student at Oglethorpe (Hearst-admired) University, had a hand in killing a drugstore cashier. Dick Gallogly drove the getaway car. Another student fired the shots, confessed that he and his partner had robbed and killed "for the thrill." After two mistrials, Dick pleaded guilty, and along with rich George ("Junie") Harsh of Milwaukee was imprisoned for life. His grandmother moved heaven and earth and the Journal did its bit to get Dick out, failed to persuade three successive Governors to parole or pardon him. Pampered in prison but ailing, Dick Gallogly in a hospital last May married 23-year-old Vera Hunt, a onetime schoolteacher who met him while visiting a Georgia prison seven years ago, had lived with his mother since 1933. Last week, the Grays and the Journal having wangled Dick Gallogly a third parole hearing, he was up in Atlanta before Governor E. D. Rivers. The hearing ended almost as soon as it began. Informed that Vera Hunt Gallogly had confessed to two charges of shoplifting, Dick Gallogly's attorneys abandoned all hope, called off their case.

With the convict when he set out by automobile for Tattnall State Prison were his wife, his mother and two guards, one of whom the family had hired to watch him in the hospital. Near Summit, Ga., an hour's ride from Tattnall, Dick Gallogly and his bride left mother and guards on the roadside, fled in the car for a delayed honeymoon. Two and a half hours later the two guards reported that Dick Gallogly had pulled a gun, forced them to leave the car, ignored his mother's warning: "I think this is the most foolish thing you ever did." Authorities held "on suspicion" the family-hired guard, suspected that the bride supplied the gun.

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