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» k — * STEVENS YDUTH I w ADE STEVENS, youth who was arrested following the dis covery of the bodies of his mother and sister in the fire ruins of the family home on the McDonough Road. No suspi cion is now attached to the boy, who is aiding to clear the mys tery in every way. Will Bible Solve Stevens Slaying? *r • •*'• *■»*•*!- *!•••»* r*T Clews in Holy Book Negro Read + • + + • + Son Is Freed of All Suspicion. Men Sought Were Feared by Slain Women. A.« a result of his straightforward glory and the proof he has brought forward to sustain it. the police vir tually have eliminated Wade Stevens as a suspect in the murder of his mother. Mrs. Sarah <\ Stevens, and his sister. Miss Nellie Stevens, and the burning «»f their home on the McDonough road. The activities of the police ana Sheriff McCurdy are now being rii rooted toward Walter Wilkes, and Ernest Maynard, former employees of Mrs. Stevens. A country-wide search hafi been instituted for them. Descriptions of the negro and the half-breed have been s*nt out t<> all parts of the South by telegraph, and the officers are confident that it is only a matter of hours before they are arrested. The theory that Wilkes and May nard committed the crime, formulated by statements made by neighbors of the Stevens family, ami statements made by William Stevens, has been strengthened, the police say. by the statements of Wade Stevens. 3iw Wilkes Near Home. Young Stevens, brought to Atlanta from Chattanooga by Detective John Hka« k at 2 o'clock Friday morning, told the police that twice within the past week he has seen Wilkes, the last time being only a few hours be fore the murder. I met Wilkes in town Tuesday night shortly before 8 o’clock," said young Stevens. "Hg slopped me aiul asked me where I was going I told him that I was going to Chattanooga. He asked me if father had not already gone, and I told him yes. Then he remarked that he supposed mother and sister would be alone at the house during the night, and f told him I supposed so. Then he asked me if we needed a hired man, and said he guessed lie would go out and ask mother if he could get another job. " Young Stevens said he also saw Wilkes within a mile of his home last Sunday morning. "I was driving to town,' the boy declared. "And 1 met Wilkes just beyond the bridge over thf* South ern railroad. He asked me where 1 was going, and I told him to town. Then Ue wanted to know if mother wanted any work done, and 1 told him I didn't know, lit then asked me If father was at home, and when J told him he was. he asked if he could go back to town with me. He got in the buggy then and we Canu te towm. He said he was going down on Decatur Street, and that was Hu- last tfl-ne 1 saw him until Tuesday night, just before 1 left 1^1 Chatta nooga*.* JB«>th Insulted the Women. Youtfiu Stevens is positive that Wilkes, and Maynard committed the crime, kind dot lares that both tin men h.M e several times Insulted his mother aind sister and tried to get them to |'ive them money. "The negroes thought mamma kept a large so m of money in the house," said the Stevens boy, "and they were always ad king her for a quarter or t a> dollar, and.getting mad when she wouldn’t g ive it to them. Mamma and sister often talked of the ne groes. and said they were afraid of them. Thtree times that I can re member, vi hile Wilkes was working for us. he tried to insult sister, and that is wliy we discharged him. Twice sistei r saw him peeking in the window when she was dressing or bathing, anil both times he grinned and cursed and ran. "Mamma and sister w«re just as much afraid of Maynard as they were of Wilkes. H»- tried to insult Nellie one <iay and mamma drove Verses About Murder Marked Save money NOW on j Furniture at High’s. hi hi away with a gun He had threatened the whole family several times, and we were all afraid of him. Maynard was a half-breed In dian and negro, and was always in a had humor and talking about money/’ Young Stevens also threw' light on a phase of Wilkes’ character that up holds th< theory that Mrs. Stevens’ Bible, found in Wilkes’ cabin, may prove valuable evidence. "Wilkes always was saying he wanted to be a preacher, and in March he borrowed mamma's Bible. He drank lots of whisky, and would sit with the Bible in one hand and a glass of whisky In the other, laughing at the Bible. He used to point out places in the Rlble where it said not to kill anybody, and then he’d say it was all bosh and make fun of it. He would say that he’d bet he could do all those things and not got punished. He and Maynard were together when ever they got a chance, and they drank a lot of whisky.” In young Stevens’ story of how he spent the day on Tuesday, he de clared that he knows nothing of his sister taking his clothing to a neigh bor's. and says he was not at home all day. His statement, in which he is corroborated by "Red" Merchant, arrested with him in < ’hattanooga. follows: "1 left home at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning, after a quarrel with mamma. I had cut the oats on Monday and on Tuesday she wanted me to put them in the burn. It had rained dur ing the night and 1 told her it was too wet. She was mad and said if I didn't put the oats in the barn 1 could leave. I told her 1 would if she would give me my clothes, and she wouldn't do it "So 1 came to town in the overalls that T have on now T met ‘Red’ Merchant on Pryor Street near the Union Depot, and we were together about town until about I o’clock, when ‘Red’ wont home, to East Atlanta, i hung around town until 3 o'clock and met ‘Red’ again. Wc stayed down town and about 5 o'clock we met four hoys, one of them the McWilliams boy, and stayed with them until about time tor the train to leave. We caught the 8:55 W. and A. train and got into ('hattanooga about 1:08 o'Mock. At J: 30 we saw a man named Parker who runs a newsstand near the ('hattanooga depot, and talked with him for some lime. Then we hung around town> 1 wasn’t ar rested by the (’hattanooga police. When 1 read in the paper Wednes day morning that mother and sister had been murdered and that 1 was wanted, I went to* the chief of detec tives and gave myself up." Young Stevens and young Merchant were taken to the Decatur County jail by Sheriff McCurdy Friday. They probably will be held a few days un til the Chattanooga end of their story is proved. Young Stevens says the man Parker, owner of the newsstand, will come to Atlanta if necessary and prove that he was there about the time the murder is supposed to have been committed. FREE, NEXT SUNDAY. The American Sunday Monthly Magazine, contain ing the first chapters of Jack London's new story, GIVEN FREE with every copy of the next Sunday American, Testament Given by Slain Wom an to Suspected Hand Found in His Cabin. Is the Holy Bible to play a part In solving the mystery of the murder of Mrs. Sarah C. Stevens and her daugh ter and the burning of their lonely farm house? Was the murderer a type of hu manity who combined a passion. oi‘ a contempt, for the Bible with an in- ^ liable craving to kill, rob and de- st roy ? Was this fanatic Walter Wilkes, a negro, who qp to three weeks ago irked for Mrs Stevens—known to a close student of the Bible? Was he aided in his fiendish work Krnest Maynard (or Mannard), a half-breed Mexican, who worked at the Stevens farm before Wilkes came known to be a friend and follower f Wilkes, and as deceitful and as treacherous? The finding of Mrs. Stevens' Bible on a shelf In a log cabin formerly oc- upied by the negro and the Mexi can. with many passages having ref- pnee to violent deaths and actions marked with a cross in lead pencil, has brought these questions strongly to the fore, and has caused the in vestigations of Sheriff McCurdy and Detective Rosser to point toward the negro and the half-breed as possible perpetrators of the crime. Officers consider the Bible, w’ith its marked passages, one of the most re- parkable and important bits of evi- lence unearthed since the investiga tion of the murder began. The Bible has been positively iden tified by Mr. Stevens and two of Mrs. Stevens’ brothers as the property of Mrs. Stevens. The inscription on the fly-leaf "Mrs. Stevens’ Book”—has >en identified as her handwriting. Mr. Stevens made the further im portant statement that the Bible has been in Wilkes’ possession since the last of March, when Mrs. Stevens loaned him the book at his request. The negro had told her that he was studying for the ministry and did not have a Bible of his own. Striking Passages Marked. Practically every passage that is marked with the crude cross has ref erence to some form of violent sin that is punishable by eternal damna tion The passages refer to killing destroying, lust and adultery, the greatest crimes in the spiritual and temporal calendar. These questions are being raised: Why did Wilkes mark only passages dealing with violent sin and its pun ishment? Did the marking of the Bible (vithin a month of the murder have any bearing on the crime? Does it show that Wilkes’ mind was constantly filled with thoughts of murder and robbing? Did the marking of Kxodus xix:13 "And it came to pass that on the third day in the morning that there were thunders and lightning, and a thick aloud upon the mount.” have any bearing on the burning of the house, the crackle and roar of the flames .and the thick clouds of smoke? Did the marking of James i:14, "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed," have any reference to his desire and efforts—alleged by the girl’s relatives to have occurred—to attack little Nellie Stevens? Did the marking of James ii: 10, "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all,” mean that he would be equally guilty whether he commit ted assault, murder, robbery, arson, or all? The portions of the Bible that w’ere marked, presumably by Wilkes are as follows: Exodus xix: 13—There shall not an l and touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it be beast or man. it shall not live; when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. Violent Passages Indicated. Exodus xlx;16—And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and light nings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was In the camp trembled Exodus xx:13—Thou shalt not kill. Exodus xx:14—Thou shalt not com mit adultery. Exodus xx: 17—Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbors. Exodus xxi:15—And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. Exodus xxi:17—And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. Exodus xxi:19—If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall be that smote him be quit; only he shall pay for the loss of his time and sh&ll excuse him to be thorough ly healed. Exodus xxi:22—If men strive and hurt a woman with child, so that het fruit departeth from her, and yet no mischief follow; he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband lay upon him; and he shah pay as the judges determine. Exodus xxi:23—And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life. Exodus xxi:16—And he that steal- eth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall be surely put to death. Exodus xxii:16—And if a man en tice a maid that is not betrothed * * * he shall surely endow her to be his wife. Matthew v:36—XeHhejr shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. Matthew vii: 23-— But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness. Hebrews xiii: 17—Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves; for they watch for your souls, as they that must give ac count. that they may do it with joy, and not with grief; for that is un profitable for you. James i: 14—But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. James i: 16—Then when lust hath Save money NOW on Furniture at High’s. conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin when It is finished, bringeth forth death. Janies ii:10—For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend In one point, he is guilty of all. Colosslans 1 ii: 20—Children, obey your parents in all things; for this is well pleasing with the Lord. Ephesians xxxlv:25 — Wherefore putting away lying, speak ever>; man with his neighbor; for w# are meni» bers one of another. Ephesians vi: 5—Servants, be obe dient to those that are your masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. Stevena Aids Officers. Several points that had puzzled the officers Investigating the case were cleared up with the arrival of Mr. Stevens from Chattanooga and his visit to his burned home Thursday afternoon His identification of vari ous objects and his statements that none of them were in their usual places have completed and upheld the murder theory. The ax and the hoe found in the bed room, where the bodies were found, Mr. Stevens identified as be longing to the house. The hoe. he said, is usually kepi on me back porch, and the ax Is kept at the wood- pile In the rear of the house. Sheriff McCurdy and Detective Rosser are positive that the ax and the hoe were the weapons used by the murderer; and they are positive also that there were at leust two o' the fiends Though Sheriff McCurdy declared that young Wade Stevens and "Reu” Merchant will be held until their ac tions on th«* night of the murder can be thoroughly investigated, he inti mated that all clews now point to the negro and the Mexican. Walter Wilkes and Ernest Maynard, or Mannard, and intimated that a country-wide search will be in3titued for the two men. Both Were Discharged. Maynard, or Mannard, had been discharged from the employ of Mrs. Stevens because he had insulted the young girl and once had attempted to attack her. Wilkes was discharged because he became a "peeping Tom.” and was surly and threatening on the day he was ordered off the place. Wilkes knew' Mr. Stevens would be away from home on the night of the murder. When working in the fields with the negro a month ago Mr. Ste vens told the negro that he would at tend the reunion, and remembered the negro had asked him the date w r hen he would be away from home. The investigation conducted Friday by the officers developed the fact that Wilkes and Maynard were together a great deal of the time. ADDITIONAL TRAIN SERVICE. Effective Sunday. June 1st. the Louisville and Nashville Railroad will establish double daily service between Cartersville, Ga„ and Etowah. Tenn. Train 35 will leave Etowah 6:30 a. m. arrive Cartersville 9:25 a. m.; train 36 will leave Cartersville* 10:30 a. m„ arrive Etowah 1:30 p. m.; train 37 will leave Etowah 2:20 p. m., ar rive Cartersville 5:20 p. m.; train 38 will leave Cartersville 7:12 p. m., arrive Etowah 10:10 p. m. adv. 'City of Savannah Is Overhauled Entirely Information was received Friday hy | W. H. 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