"We Were Having a Little Party. I Don't See Any Harm in That" Mrs. Candler, Feb. 9, 1924

Wife of A. Candler and 2 Men Arrested at Booze Party. . . She and Two Gentlemen Friends Were Taken From an Apartment in Fashionable Section of Atlanta to Police Station

Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 9—Business and social circles were given a sensation here today when Police Chief James L. Beavers and Police Capt. A.J. Holcombe arrested Mrs. Mary Ralgin Candler, young wife of Asa C. Candler, millionaire soft drink manufacturer as she and W.J. Stoddard and G.W. Keeling were sitting around a table on which reposed a quart bottle of liquor.

They were taken from an apartment house in a fashionable section of the city to the police station and released in bond of $100 each for their appearance before the city recorder next Tuesday.

Mrs. Candler admitted her identity and said she and her friends were having a little party in the apartment, which she declared belonged to a friend of hers.

The apartment owner, she told the chief, had gone to a nearby suburb for the afternoon. “We were having a little party. I don’t see any harm in that,” Mrs. Candler stated.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, Feb. 10, 1924