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 Miss Dora Campbell, Former Postmistress at Maysville, Charged with Embezzlement.
Miss Dora Campbell, former postmistress at Maysville, who resigned her position on the 15th of May and reported a balance on hand of $60, has been charged with being a defaulter, and was arrested in Baltimore on last Monday and brought back to Georgia. After Miss Campbell’s resignation, the treasury department sent an inspector to Maysville to make an investigation, and he testified that instead of there being $60 on hand, there was a deficiency of $560. He said the books had been tampered with. Miss Campbell was given a hearing in Baltimore, and remanded to the action of the Federal Grand Jury of the Northern District of Georgia, which has jurisdiction over Maysville. Miss Campbell’s people live in Maysville.

The Jackson Herald, June 26, 1903

President Pardons Mrs. Dora Campbell Harmon 
On last Saturday President Roosevelt unconditionally pardoned Mrs. Dora Campbell Harmon, late postmaster at Maysville, Ga., who on Nov. 6, last, was sentenced at Athens, Ga., by Judge Newman to six months imprisonment in the common jail at Gainesville, Ga., and the payment of a fine of $721.52, the amount she pleaded guilty to having embezzled from the post office money order funds.  It was represented that she was in a delicate condition, and that confinement in the jail was fraught with great danger to her health.

Mrs. Harmon, then Miss Dora Campbell, was postmaster at Maysville in 1903, and an inspection of her office by Post Office inspector R. E. Barry disclosed a shortage of $721.52 in her money order account.  She was removed from office, and went to Baltimore, Md., in which city she was arrested on June 21, 1903, by Inspector Barry, who had traced her to that place.  It is stated that she offered to refund some $70 she had upon her person at the time of her arrest, but nothing has been paid on account of the shortage.

Barry brought the accused woman back to Georgia, and on Nov. 3, 1903, the United States grand jury indicted her for the offense.  To this indictment she pleaded guilty on Nov. 14, 1904, Judge Newman deferring imposition of sentence with the understanding that she was to make good the shortage.  This was not done, however, and on Nov. 6, 1905, Judge Newman sentenced her as above stated, and she was immediately incarcerated in the jail at Gainesville.

After her indictment, the defendant married a young man of Atlanta by the name of Harmon, and she had been married nearly a year when sentenced to jail.  Learning of her delicate condition, and moved by humanitarian motives, Hon. Fletcher M. Johnson, a prominent attorney of Gainesville, drew up a petition for pardon, and after obtaining the endorsement of Judge Newman, and United States attorney Tate, a day or two after Christmas this petition was forwarded to President Roosevelt, and was acted upon favorably last Saturday.

The jailer was wired by the direction of the President to release Mrs. Harmon on Saturday, and she is now happy with her newly found liberty.

The Jackson Herald, Feb. 1, 1906

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