Borglum, Dismissed by Stone Mountain Memorial Assocation, Shares His Story in Raleigh, Feb. 28, 1925

Borglum Is Headed North After Visit to State Capital. . . Dismissed Sculptor Talks freely with Newspaper Men During Brief Visit to Raleigh Friday Night. . . No Effort Made to Arrest Him. . . Officers There Had Not Been Asked to Make Arrest—Says He Destroyed No Model of Memorial

By the Associated Press

Raleigh, Feb. 28—Having declared another verbal attack against the Stone Mountain Memorial Association executive committee of Atlanta, Gutzon Borglum, dismissed sculpture of the Confederate memorial which is being carved on the mountain, today was supposed to be northward bound, says the Raleigh News and Observer.

Borglum arrived here yesterday, visited a friend, and received a News and Observer reporter before leaving on a train at 11 o’clock last night, the paper says, adding that the sculptor denied the charges that he had destroyed models of the memorial before leaving Atlanta.

DeKalb county officials have telegraphed officers in many southern cities to arrest Borglum and hold him for the Atlanta authorities to answer charges of malicious mischief in connection with the alleged destruction of models at Stone Mountain. No effort, however, was made to arrest Borglum while he was here, as local officials had not received the DeKalb request.

Borglum said there had been no model of the memorial, that some weeks ago he had discarded a “rough model that had been in use, the texture of the stone of the mountain and the contours of the strata having made it useless,” the paper says.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Feb. 28, 1925

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