Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-03-03
MYSTERY OF MURDER
is STILL UNSOLVED
Brown Dies After Generating
Woman's Husband.
PUBLIC MIND is DIVIDED
AS to Who Killed Lillian Davenport
and A. r. Brown in a Park at
But Proved an Alibi.

Brunswick, Ca, March 2.-The
shooting of the actress, Lillian Dav-
enport, and her companion, A. r.
Brown, in a secluded spoI in a park
al Brunswick, is still as great mys
terry as ever.
A. R. Brown, tie bartender, and
companion of the actress, died at the
city hospital Friday. Before his
death he made a statement in which
he exonerated the husband Of the ac-
tress, and says Teddy committed the
crime. The dying statement of Brown
is as follows:
l"About o'clock l went by the res
taurant, l had an engagement with
the girl, Lillian, and met her by the
postofice. We were sitting out by
the ditch and saw some one pass by
with a slouch hat on.
'She said: There goes some one. ,
Ten or fifteen minutes later
heard a shot right over me. He shot
me in the back. l said: Give me
my pistol and l will shoot him, but
had no pistol. He then stepped back
and snapped again. She started to-
wards him, with a small hammer, and
he shot and killed her.
'I believe it was Teddy. | don't
believe Davenport had anything to
do with it.
Teddy was crazy over her. She
begged him to let her alone. Last
Monday night l was out with the girl
and Teddy followed me. | don't know
what she said after she was shot
had nothing to defend myself with,
not even a pocket knife.
when I left the restaurant / was
with a friend, Sam Crenshaw "
went towards the postoftice, and h
said somebody, two of them, were
following me, and told me to watch
out, and I believe one Of these men
shot me" +"
The party referred to as Teddy is a
Greek, whose other name is Merca-
tos Re was the former proprietor
of the Metropolitan restaurant.
Teddy Mercatos was arrested in Sa-
yannah and proved he spent Wednes-
day nigh, in that city, hence he was
later released.
The public mind is. very much di
vided as to who committed the d0u-
Bile murder AS for Davenport, the
husband, there is no longer any
doubt as to his innocence of the crime,
as q complete alibi was proven before
the coroner's inquest, and he was Civ
en- his freedom.
Who the real murderer is is only
matter of conjecture. IT was said
Teddy Mercatos, who it was claimed
left the city Monday last for Savan-
nah, was the man. wanted, hence his
arrest
1t was stated at the Metropolitan
restaurant, where Mrs Davenport
worked, for several weeks as a wait
er, that she met Mercatos. She
sought employment there, it is said,
because she had no other means of
making a living. She and Daven-
port had separated
The body Of Mrs. Davenport was
inferred Friday. The Rev. Freder-
ick D. Thomas, of the Presbyterian
church, off1ciated at the ceremonies.
A large concourse of friends attend
ed the funeral, noticeable among
whom were all members of the Park
e" Amusement company, now winter
ing here and with whom she had been
connected for a long time. They
purchased the finest casket that could
be gotten, and her body was most
becomingly a,tired by the Daughters
Of the Maccabees, who, with a most
commendable spirit, had interested
themselves in the winsome, but un-
fortunate little woman, and still jus
tica has so far been cheated, for the
law has so far no positive clew which
can fasten the crime upon single
individual