The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24

not rob him or have anything to do
with it,
Were you not with young Crowley"
II only saw him at the depot"
Didn't you get into buggy with him
and drive out of the city to the place
where he was found murdered?'
mo. sir, i did not.
''WilI you go back without requisition
papers?'
"Yes. sir"
mo foolng. now: 1 don't went you to go
back your word
'oh. I'll go back" said Myers. IT might
as well go back and have the whole thing
over"
The prisoner was taken to the celroom.
He Is good-looSing young man. He
gave his age as nineteen. He had on a
new suit he said be bought on credit in
Atlanta.
Held for Atlanta Officers.
After Myers had been successfully trap
ped and lodged i'm central police station.
where he talked sufficiently to remove all
doubt that the right man had been captured
he was locked up i'm cell and the words
held for Atlanta officers registered oppo-
site his name.
Myers 1T once went to sleep not appear
ing at all uneasy over his position. He
slept soundly until Z o'clock this morning
and then ate "A hearty breakfast No one
was allowed to see him but the officers In
charge until the arrival of Chief of Police
Deitsch, who had been notified of the ar
rest by telephone and who had sent strict
orders to allow one to question the pris-
oner until he could see him.
Chief Deitsch himself said he believed
young Myers committed the murder and
simply confessed to his having been an
accessory TO IL in order to meet the charges
which he knew had already been substan-
tiated by numerous witnesses in Atlanta.
His story that Brown Allen, the gambler,
committed the actual deed is not given ere
dence here. When Myers was taken before
Chief Deitsch he was cool and collected
and did not seem TO realize his position
When asked to tell something about him
self he said:
Il am nineteen years old and was born
near Glendale, o." (This is a fashionable
suburb of Cincinnati. twenty miles north)
Myers continued. saying that nine years
ago he went To Atlanta with his father and
has been there ever since. Then he started
TO tell about the murder of Forrest Crow
ley. Several detectives and other police
officials were present and listened closely
TO every word the youth uttered.
Throughout The narrative he remained
wonderfully self-possessed The official
stenographer took every word and then
gave them 10 The Constitution correspond
ent.
Myers said: Some months ago l net a
gambler named Brown Allen. who had a
very pretty sister. / met tine girl and fell
in love with her. and while visiting at
her home one night. We were in the room
together and the door was locked. Her
brother broke i'm the door and at the poIat
of "A pistol made me agree to pay him
SO. i got S35 and gave it to Allen. lie
told me 10 so and see my friend Crowley
End get the rest of the money from him.
If Crowley refused TO give me the money,
1 10 aels inn tn ok he
mules he had. which 1 could sell and get
the money.
Il went TO Crowley, but he would give me
neither the money nor the mules j te-
ported 10 Allen, who said:
I'm get even with the -.
Then it was fixed that ] should induce
Crowley to 40 with me 10 see a man who
wanted TO buy some mules. ! did as was
told and Crowley and | started for the
place l wanted TO weaken. but Allen would
net let me. We went TO a place called
Westwood, and Crowley was shown 10 n
small HILL where the man who wanted TO
buy the mules would he found.
ALLEN was in waiting, and when he saw
Crowley he killed him. Allen then return
cd TO where / was waiting and, hitting me
in the face with a pocket book. said:
~ killed him and there is your part,
at the same time handing me 81.
I'VE then went back TO Atlanta and 1
came TO this city
This was all Myers could be induced 10
say.
The police considered his story an I'M
probable one ana would not believe IT.
They told Myers SO, and the prisoner re-
marked quietly that he could not help H.
that il was the truth.
Subsequently. several others got him 70
repeat his story, but he neither changed
nor added TO il.