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FINAL
X
BURNS SAYSHE'S SOLVED PURSE MYSTERY
Two Convict Bosses Are Fined As Cruel
Famous Detective Begins Investi
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gation of Alleged Bribe Offers
for False Testimony.
A. S. Colyar, dictographer, quondam
lawyer and mysterious figd¥Pe in the
Phagan murder case, has been brought
into the light by the latest activity of
Defective Burng and his operatives,
This became known Friday shortly
after the day's most linportant devel
opment—Burns’ nositive declaration
that he already 'was In a position to
clear up the mystery of Mary Pha
gan's missing purse and py envelope
and of the ribbons and flowers miss
ng from her har.
The strange disappearance of the
slain girl's mesh bag has remained
une of the batfling and unexplained
fcatures of the case up to the present.
Jim Conley, having never before men
tioned it in any of his sworn state
ments, startled ‘he courtroom at the
tria! of Frank by declaring that he
caw it on Frank’'s desk when he went
in to write the lav'rder notes after the
zirl had been killed,
Will Explain All, He Says.
Burns was non-committal when he
was asked if he actually had found
the missing articles or simply had
ascertained their disposition by the
murderer.
“I will explain everything about the
mesh bag, the pay envelope and the
other articles when my final report
is made,” he promised.
Another important contribution to
the day's developments came in the
shape of an interview with Henry F.
Becker, former maste mechanic at
the pencil factory, by The Georgian's
correspondent in Irvington, N 3 It
was on an old order pad used by
Becker in 1909 that the death notes
were written by Conley.
Becker in his interview with The
Georgian roprosvnlmi\‘/e expressed his
firm belief in the innocence of Frank
and declared that W& was confident
that Jim Conley, whom he knew as a
worthless, no-account negro, was the
person who slew the little girl.
Burns admitted Friday that he had
located Codlyvar in an Alabama city
and that his men were investigating
every incident of Colyar’'s connection
with the murder mystery, including
his alleged effort to obtain by a $l,OOO
bribe testimony defamatory to Frank's
character.
Says Colyar Ought To Be in Jail.
“If all I hear about this man is true,
he ought to be in jail,” :aid Burns.
*1 imagine he has been sud cessful in
escaping much of the imprisonment
which he deserves not so much be
cause he is clever, but because the
authorities think he is not entirely re
sponsible.”
Burns will ind out every detail cf
Colyar's connection with the detective
department and with Chief Lanfor:,
for whom generally understood
he was working when he dictographed
Colo Thomas B. Felder and Mayor
Voodward. The detective wishes to
Continued on Page 5, Column 1.
~ THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Rain and colder
Friday; fair Saturday.
THE ATLANTA (GEORGIAN
YOIL. Xl, NO. 198,
ST. LOUIS, March 20.—Frank
Wheatley, 49 years old, discount clerk
for the Third National Bank, it was
discovered this afternoon is short in
his accounts $17,053. The announce
‘ment of the shortage was made by
President F. O. Watts, of the bank.
Wheatley is in the custody of private
‘detectives.
Fred Holder, of No. 340 Luckie
street, a messenger boy, was run down
and painfully hurt at Piedmont and
Ponde Deleon avenues by an autn
mobile Friday afternoon. Holder, who
was on a bicycle, was hurled to the
pavement. The driver of the car rode
on without finding out the extent of
his victim’s injuries. C. R, Hooks, of
the Overland-Southern Automobile
Company, was passing the scene of
th. accident and picked up the in
jured boy, rushing him to Grady Hos
pital.
HOUSTON, March 20.—Ray Cald
well, the Yankee's pitcher, was sus
pended and fined $lOO to-day by Man
ager Frank Chance for breaking train
ing camp rules,
" WASHINGTON, March 20.—The
Senate to-day confirmed the nomina
tion of Charles B. Streker to be as
sistant treasurer of the United States
in Boston.
NEW YORK, March 20—The body
of Frederick Townsend Martin, the
wealthy New York society man and
club man who died in London on
March 8, arrived here to-day.
NAGASKI, JAPAN, March 20-—-
Prof. Frank Alvord Perret, the Brook
lyn scientist who went to Sajura
Island to study the volcano of Sakura-
Jima, was badly burned about the facs
and hands to-day by an explosion of
molten lava. 5
HALIFAX, N. 8., March 20.—The
terrific pounding of the Atlantic’s
waves to-day broke in two the steam
er City of Sydney, which went ashore
on the Sam Pro Ledge on Tuesday. All
on board and part of her crew were
saved.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, March
20.—Discouraged by the almost con
tinuous snowfall, Manager Clark
Griffith, of the Washington baseball
team to-day announced that he will
break up spring camp here to-merrow
and ship his young athletes back to
Washington.
NASHVILLE, TENN., March 20.—
Robbers entered the First National
Bank in Gallatin, Tenn., early to-day
and escaped with $32,000 in cash from
the safe. They worked the combina
tion.
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Secre
tary of War Garrison to-day made
public the following appointments in
connection with the permanent or
ganization of the Panama Canal: En
gineer of maintenance, Colonel Harry
F. Hodges, U. S. A.; superintendent
of transportation, Captain Huah Rod
man, U, 8, N.; electrical engineer,
Captain William H. Rcse, U, S, A.;
captains of the terminal port, Captain
D. E. Dismukes and Lieutenant Com
mander Henry V. Butler. U. S. N.;
surerintendent of shops and dry
docks, Naval D. C. Nutting, U. 8. N.;
general purchasing officer, Major F. C.
Boggs, U. S. N.; chief quartermaster,
Captain R. E. Wood, 'l. 8. A.; chief
health officer, Lieutenant Colonel
Charles F. Mason, U. S. A.; superin
tendent of hospitals, Lieutenant Calo
nel George D. Dishon, U. 8, A.; chief
officer of the quarantine division, Dr,
Marshall C. Guthrie, U. S. Public
Health Service; auditor, H. A. Smith;
assistant auditor, B, F. Harrah; ex
ecutive secretary, C. A. McElvane.
NEW YORK, March 20,—Three men
were hurt, two so badly that they will
probably die, when a five-ton steel
gorder which was being hoisted into
place on the new Equitable Building
fell upon a platform built over Broad
way for the protection of pedestrians
The windows in two passing street
cars were splintered and the passen
gers thrown into a panic. Traffic
was blocked. |
Wilson and Huerta
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Are in Same Boat
NEW YORK, March 20.—Wiison|
Huerta arrived here to-day, They are |
the twin sons of Marianna Florio 'i- |
rat, Mexican Consul at PhlIuIvI;-I‘«‘.J‘I
and his wife, who arrived on the Ward |
liner Morro Castle from Mexico. The
twing were born at sea on St. Pat
rick's Day.
Read for Profit—GEORGIAN VANT ADS—Use for Results
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Overseers Who Flogged Prisoners
Must Pay $2OO Each or Serve
'
I Year in Gang.
I ('lyde Thomason and Ed Tyree,
convict bosses at the Adamson and
Weiauca camps, respectively, were
found guilty IFriday or the charges of
cruelty toward the prisoners in their
charge and were fined $2OO each with
the alternative of twelve months in
‘the chaingang, of which they lately
I\\‘Pn'- in control.
. The case against Thomason was
‘made on the information that he had
unmercifully whipped James Bran
non, a convict, when Branhon ex
claimed against the shooting of James
Harris, a fellow prisoner, by Thoma
son.
Tyree was accused of flogging Ben
Spratling, a negro prisoner, until the
negro man's ‘skin was in ribbons and
the blood had saturated his clothes,
Prosecution Follows Expose.
The investigation by the Grand
Jury and the subsequent indictment
of the convict bosses, together with
the reforms that recently’have been
instituted, came after the revelation
of conditiong in the convict camps by
The Georgian and The Sunday Amer
ican.
Judge Ben Hill, in pronouncing sen
tence, said that while some of the
convicts vndoubtedly had exaggerat
ed the number of lashes given them
and .the extent of the cruelties prac
ticed, it was patent that brutality
existed at the camps and had been
practiced both by Tyree and Thoma
son.
The judge was inclined to believe
that Tyree had been an even worse
offender than Thomason, although
Thomason, on one count, had been
charged with assault with intent to
murder in the shooting of Harris,
Flogged While lil.
Spratling, “testifying for the pros
ecution, declared that Tyree had flog
ged him twice in guccession, giving
him 25 licks each time, in spite of
the fact that he (Spratling) was sick
from an abscess in the chest
Tyree told the court that he was
unaware of Spnratling's affliction un
tii the negro testified before the
Grand Jur) CGiuards at the camp
testified that Tyree whipped Sprat
ling only once and that he applied the
lash no more than eight times.
Thomason was found guilty on the
assault and battery charge and at the
request of the request of the Solici
tor the indictment for assault with
intent to murder was quashed. Mr
Dorsey said he did not think the in
dictment could be prosecuted on ac
count of the character of the com
plaining convict and certain circum
stances that had been explained to
him.
Brannon was the first wilness
called by the State. He said that he
had been lashed by Thomason on De
cember 19, 1913, because on the day
bhefore he had said, after witnessing
the shooting of Harris, "Oh, God! voui
murdered that man, and it was a cruel
and cowardly murder.” I*ullnwmgl
this assertion, he sald that Thomason
threatened to get even, I
Wwilliam Flynn, a convict, who wit
nessed the whipping of Hr:umr»n,l
when called by the State, said xhatl
the lashing had been one of the most
cruel ever given in the camp. He
gaid that he was working in the vard |
and heard Brannon's cries for mercy.
Harris was the next witness, “!‘,‘
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ATLANTA, GA, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1914.
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Soldiers Rushed to Ulster and
First Clash Is Expected With
. in 24 Hours.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
DUBLIN, IRELAND, March 20.—
8 p. m.—The situation in the Ulster
province was so critical to-night that
even the most conservative were pre
dicting that before daybreak there
would be clashes between the troopers
and the Unionists who are bitterly op
posed to the home rule bill.
With nearly 4,000 troops spread
along the border and thousands more
being rushed to the vicinity as fast as
possible, England finds herself to
night on the verge of a civil war, that
if it comes, will assume vast propor
tions.
So delicate js the situation now that
Sir Edward Carson, leader of the
Unionists, and one of the bitterest
foes of the home rule bill, has be
come alurmed and is sending word o
all his lieutenants to abandon their
warlike attitude. But the Unionists,
for the most part, have been worked
up to a fever nitch, and seem in no
mood now to harken to the pleadings
of their leader for peaceful methods.
Among the troops that left late {o
night for Ulster were the Dorset regi
ment, the Holyroods, the Norfolks and
the Bedfordshire regiments. All these
troops were fully armed and several
of them carried a number of machine
guns.
It was learned late to-nfght that
additional orders for troops to pro
ceed to (Ulster had been issued and
it seems certain that before to-mor
row forenoon between 7,000 and
10,000 troops would be spread out
along the border of the province
Life Inst Head
ife Insurance Head,
Here to Meet Agents,
Sees Big Crop Year
1. K. Passmore, first vice presi
dent of the Penn Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, is in Atlanta to at
tend the meeting of the agents of
the Bagley and Willet insurance
agency at the Piedmont Hotel Mr,
Passmore is returning to Philadelphia
after an extended tour of the South,
having vigited all agencies of the
company
“CConditions all over appear to me
to be better right now than any pre
vious year. Prospects for a bumper
crop are excellent,” he sald.
“The Penn Mutual company has
shown its confidence in this section
by investing $£7,000,000 in Georgia se
curities, The cempany has more than
$30,000,000 of insurance in force in
this State.”
i ol
Thief Bags Thirteen
Chickens in Visit to
Colonel Peel's Roost
(‘hicken thieves early Friday morn
ing raided the chicken coops of Colo
nel W. 1., Peel, president of the
American Natfonal Bank, who lives
at No. 1339 Peachtree street, Six Buif
Orpingtons and seven Rhode Island
Reds were stolen. (olonel Peel noti
fied the police,
It i®» thought that the same thieves
entere| the grocery store of J. H
Barrett, No., 1212 Peachtree street,
Entrance was gained through a back
window. A large quantity of oats
ind corn was taken
C ight 1908, O PAY NO I
By Tt?:y(l;o%rgian Co. ? CE} IS MORE
; AT CHARLESTON.
~ FIRST-—Five and one-half fur
longs: Baby Sister, 105 (Obert), 10,
4,2, won; Erantata, 105 (Hanover),
4, 2 even, second; lone, 105 (Murphy),
9,3, 8-5, third, Time, 1:12. Boly Hill,
Planuda, Bolter, Holton, Caraque’,
Spitfire, Nelrose, Dorothy Priwer,
Great Surprise also ran,
SECOND-—Five and one-half fur
longs: The Turkess, 104 (Nichlaus),
8,3, 8-5, won; Henrietta W, 111
(Pickett), 8,3, 3-2, second; Madge's
Sister, 95 (Bresch), 20, 8,4, third.
‘Time, 1:12 1-5. Batouch, Kelly, Edna
Liska, Scarlet Pimpernel, Sweet
Times, LaJoie, Woolgate, Otranto,
lUninn Jack also ran.
~ THIRD—Five and one-half fur
longs: Molisant, 111 (Wolfe), 8,3,
8-5, won,; Joe Finn, 108 (McTaggart),
I4‘ 8-, 4-5, second: Pluyvius 116 (Da
vis), 6,2, 4-5, third. Jime, 1:12 2-5.
Miss Eleanor, Silas Grump, Else
‘where, Belfast, Ben Loyal, Mark A.
Mayer, Maurice Reed, John Marrs
also ran,
FOURTH-—SBix furlongs: Striker,
100 (McTaggart), 6, 9-5, 7-10, won;
Copfertown, 108 (Murphy), 18-10, 2-5,
out, second; Prince Ahmed, 108
(Smyth), 12,.3, 1, third. Time, 1:17 3-5
Grosvenor, Batwa, Towton Field also
ran. cid
FIFTH-—Mile: Sonny Bov, 95
(Murphy), 4,2, 1, won; Ella Grane,
102 (Woldron), 6,2, 1, second; Jabet,
112 (Davis), 11-5, 1, 1.2, third. Time,
1:45 1-5. Mycenae, Battling Nelson,
Linbrook, Brando, L. M. Eckert, Pros
pect also ran.
SIXTH —Mile and an eighth: Spell
bound, 105 (W. Goose), 4, 8-5, 4-b,
won; Servicence, 9 (Murphy), 12, 5,
2, second; Blllle Baker, 108 (Davis),
10, 4,2, third. Time, 1:59 2-5. Effen
di, Ford Mai, Chas, F. Grainger, Se
pulveda, Mary Ann also ran.
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST —Four furlongs: Don Cor
tez, 115 (Mentry), 6-2, 3-5, out, won;
Commauretta, 112 (Dominick), 5, 6-5,
out, second; Vampire, 115 (Murphy),
3, 7-10, out, third. Time, 47 3-0. Ma
rie O'Brien, Rav R. Miller also ran.
SECOND-—-Mile: Fastoso, 107
(Booker), 15, 6,3, won; Free Will,
110 (Taplin), b, 8-5, 4-5, second; Fly
ing, 112 (Kederis), 3,1, 9-10, third,
Time, 1:39. Bertha V., Va Va, Judge
Denton I, Zinkand, Darkey, Kali Inla,
Qugar Lump, Shorty Northcut, Tom
Murphy, Beautiful Knight also ran
THIRD-~Five and one-half fur
longs: Kenneth, 105 (MecCabe), 2,
1-2, out, won; Dominica, 106 (Moles
worth), 8-53, 2-5, out, second; Envy,
98 (Marco), 9-5, 3-5, out, third. Time,
1:06. Ben Stone also ran.
FOURTH --Five furlongs: Kye
White, 106 (Mott), 5,2, 4-5, won;
Waldo, 110 (Mentry), 2, 4-5, 2-5, sec
ond; Orimar Lad, 110 (Booker), 3,1,
1-2, third. Time, 59 3-56. Freda John
son, Kitty W., Eel, King Stalwart, Abe
Slupsky, Gimli also ran.
Race Entries on Page 2.
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Took Stamps to Write
To Wife to Avoid Suit
o Wife to Avoid S
PHILLIPSTOWN, N. )., March 20,
William Keenan, arrested for stealing
two postage stamps, sald he had to
write a letter to his wife evor day ‘o
keep from being arrested for aban
donment.
\V/H EN night
comes, you,
who have no
homes, wish to have a
comfy room, bath, clean
linen, and a comforta
ble bed in which to re
pose in sleeping rest.
And it is a provident
hand that leads you to
such. The character of
the advertisers in the
“Want Ad" section of
The American and
Georgian, under the
caption of Rooms for
Rent, warrants you to
make a ready selection,
and with whom depends
only upon the locality
in which you wish to
live,
‘A
Weather Man Says It Might Be
; Good Idea to Protect
Water Pipes.
One of the chilliest nights enjoyed
(or otherwise) by Georgia in any
March of its weather history will de
scend with nightfall Friday, unless
C. F. VonHerrmann, weather fore
caster, is seriously mistaken.
. “The temperature will fatl to about
25 degrees,” sald Mr. VonHerrmann,
;"wlth a severe and killing frost, fa
vorefl By the dampness remaining
from the recent rain. Saturday will
be fair, and probably with a rising
temperature after midday, so that the
afternoon will not be unpleasantly
cold.”
The vast rush of coldl air down
from the great Northwest was re
sponsible for the suddenness and se
verity of the change Thursday night.
Real Nip Coming Friday.
The thermometer shicank to 32 de
grees T'riday morning, and ice was
plentiful. The real nip of the cold
wave, however, will be felt Friday
night, and it might not be a bad idea
(Mr. VonHerrmann fancies) to switch
off the water where pipes are much
exnosed to the outside air.
The weather director feels reason
ably certain that this is the last Kick
of the dying winter, and is of the
opinion that the frost will not do se
rious damage, owing to the restrain
ing influence of previous cool weather
on vegatation, -
Snow Genera! North,
Snow fell during the night in Virginia,
Tennessee, Te..as, Oklahoma, Alabama
and North Georgia, and Friday morn
ifg the temperature began dropping.
In Richmond six inches of snow
covered tha ground at 9 o'clock Fri
day, and 1n Baltimore a heavy snow
storm sent the thermometer below
the freezing point The snow was
generd! throughout Tennessee, Nash
ville having the heaviest snowfall in
three years, while at Memphis and
Chattanooga and many of the smaller
towns heavy snowfalls were reported
In Atlanta the rain of Thursday
afternoon ard evening was followed
Friday by a cold snap that sent the
mercury in the weather bureau's
thermometer down two degrees in
less than two hour: At 7 o'clock,
the officlial observation time, the temn
perature was 32 degrees—just freez
ing; and at 8:30 o'clock the ther
mometer registered 30 degrees, a drop
of 2 degrees
It is not known as vet whether th
seorgia peach crop has been injured
by the cold. It was stated Friday a!
the office of K. L.ee Worshaw, Stat.
Entomologist, that there is little like
lihood that great damage was done,
because the high wind Kkept frost
from forming.
Eight Inches in Tennessee.
BRISTOL, TiENN, March 20.--The
heaviest snow o the winter is falling
in East Tennessee and Southwestern
Virginia to-day. The fall which be
gan at midnight had attained a depth
over the capital to-day.
Kentucky Snow Bound.
LOUISVILLE, KY.,, March 20.--The
heaviest snow of the winter coysers
Kentucky. Roads in many se(-tlonsl
are impassable nd farm work, whjch
was well started, has ceased entlrely.l
MANN ASSAILS PRESIDENT IN MEXICAN WAR SPEECH.
WASHINGTON, March 20.—A bitter and dramatic at
tack on President Wilson was made this afternoen in the
House by Minority Leader Mann. He said inpart: * .
“When the Moroccan bandit Raisuli held Perdicdrdis,
an American citizen, his-prisoner, the Secretary of Staie
sent this message to the Sultan of Morocco: This Gov
ernment wants Perdicardis alive or Raisuii dead.’ :
“Had we had Andrew Jackson in the White House at
that time, that is what he would have-said. We had Theo
dore Robsevelt as President, and .that is. what he said.
Wouid to God we had one or the other of them in the Waitn
House to-day to deal with the Mexican situation.” b
Georgia Child Labor
% %'t' Terrible,
onditions Terrible,
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Dr. A. J. McKelway, a naliona.]lyl
famous Child Labor expert, passe'}l
through Atlanta Friday, en route to
Washington from New Orleans, wherel
he has been attending a conferencel
on child labor. Dr. McKelway com-I
‘mented vigorously on published ut
-llerances defending Georgia's child
liabor laws, declaring that conditions
in this Stale are terrible.
I “Georgia is the last place on earth
that should defend her child labor
lawe,” sgaid Dr. McKelway,K “Ten
year-aid children are allowed to work
in the cotton mills of this State, a
condition that prevails nowhere else
in the country. The child labor laws
of Georgia are virtually no laws at
all, for all the good they do.
“A defense of the child labor laws
that are now on the statute books of
this State is a defense of child labor,
- of the practice of allowing littls
children to work ten and twelve
hours a day in the cotton mils."”
Builder Stricken
' In Doctor’s Office
I W, T. Ward, aged 71, « uintractor
living at No\ 398 Mangum street, is
in Grady Hospital Wriday morning
following a stroke of apoplexy while
at the office of Dr. George A, Vimson
in the Inman Building. ¢ is uncon
scious and little hope is given for his
recovery.
Mr. Ward was stricken with apo
plexy two years ago and since that
time has been taking treatments from‘
Dr. Vimson. Friday morning, while
‘on his way to the doctor’s office, he
felt that he was to be stricken again.
He hurried to the office, but the doc
tor was not in. A few minutes later
‘he collapsed.
Shoots Wife Fatall
I y
And Wounds 3 Others
. WASHINGTON, March 20.—Mrs.
Herbert Kabanskl was fatally shot;
her mother, Mrs. Solomon Raboy, and
her brother and husband were seri
ously wounded, and Policeman Ed-I
wards narrowly escaped death to-day
when Kabansk!, a former saldier, tried
to kill his wife and her family at her
mother-in-law’'s home. I
Kabanski was separated from hiS{
wife and jealousy is said to have
caused the shooting. I
Hoke Smith Calls
Vocational Boardl
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WASHINGTON, March 20.—Sena
tor Hoke Smith, chairman of the
Commission on Vocational Education,
recently appointed by the Presldent,
has called a meeting in Washington |
for April 2.
Representative Hughes, of Georgia,
is the other Southern member of the
commission,
Hewlett Will Live
With Japan Lepers
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Speclal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, March 20.—The Rev A.
8. Hewlett, a cousin of the novelist,
Maurice Hewlett, has resigned from
§t. Paul's “Church, Birkenhead, to
spend his time among the lepers at
Kumato, an fisland off Kyushyu,
Japan,
NEW YORK, March 20.—The will
of the Rev, Cyrus Kisle, flled here,
provides that his estate s.ill go to
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
if masses for 100 years are said ¢ r
the repose of his soul and those of
two friends. i
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IMail Clerk Beaten and Stabbed
in Holdup Picks One of Trio
as Assailant.
Identification Friday by Pos
tal Clerk Harry B. Melville of
two of the three yegg suspeocts
captured Thursday by Sergeant
Bullard and Plainclothes Officer
Shaw led the police to the con
vietion that they have in cus
tody part of the desperate gang
of bandits . that held up and
robbed the Queen and Crescent
passenger - train of $40,000 near
Birmingham, Ala., on Febru«
lar_y 0 '
y The bandits beat Melville, the pos
tal clerk on duty, almost into insen
sibility and A. O. Perry, the robber
whom Melville positively identifies,
stabbed him in the baek -and threat«
ened to kill ‘him, according to Mel~"
ville, y .
Arrested for Another Crime.
The other two suspects gave their
names as W. B. Gray, alias ‘Des
Moines Bill,” and Oxford P. Fielda.
They were arrested at No. 89 Brook
line street Thursday on suspicion of:
being the yeggs who blew the .safe »f
the Walker Bros. store in Griffin and
robbed it of $BO5.
’ Melville was brought to Atlania
Friday to look at the three prisoners
' who had been placed among a dozen
'others in the police station. The pos
tal clerk at once picked out Perry and
positively identified him as the man'
I who had stabbed him and left him for
)dead,
| He picked Gray also, but was not
'so sure of his identity, Neither was
'he certain of Flelds. Perry was ex-
Itrnmel) nervous as soon as he saw
Melville and is said to have become
greatly excited when Melville walked
toward him to identify him.
| Reward of $6,000,
I Postal Inspector Adamson and De
itw-tiw Harry Scott, who have worked
‘on the daring robbery, were present
at the identification. Sheriff Hetson,
of Grifin, came to Atlanta to arrange
for the return of the three men to
his city to answer for the store rab
bery, but it was thought likely th!tt
they would be taken to Birmingham.
A $6,000 reward was offered for the
capture of the train robbers, and if a
conviction is obtained against the
prisoners, it is understood that Ser
geant Bullard and Officer Shaw will
put in a claim for the reward.
L. W. James, who is associated with
Attorney D. K. Johnson, counsel for
John Nolan, was at police headquar-,
ters Friday 'afternoon and indicated
his bellef that Perry and not Nolan
is the man who held up and robbed
the N, (", & St. L, passenger train he
tween Bolton and Vining®s on the
evening of January 16, He said that
passengers on the train would be
called to look at Perry and that a
new trial wouid be asked for Nolan, 5
who wa:s sentenced to 20 years for,
the robbery. e