The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-02-27
UNKNOWN MAN WAS
 JOSEPH GARRETT Cousin Recognizes Relative Who
 Was Murdered IDENTIFIED WITHOUT DOUBT coroner's Jury to Investigate Mysteri- ous Killing on southside, In Which Garrett Was Grained With
 Scantllng.
IDENTIFIED WITHOUT DOUBT

Joseph Garrett is the name of the un- fortunate white man who was killed by highway robbers about ten days ago, and whose identy has caused so much dis cussion and speculation on the part of the public and the coroner
 The peculiar part of the matter is that. although the first cousin of the deceased is resident of Birmingham. and had known the dead man since childhood yes terday was the first time he had con nected his missing relative with the body about which columns have been printed
 G II. Holmes who lives at 4423 First avenue, AVondale. called at the undertake nng parlors yesterday afternoon at ! o'clock, and as soon as he had looked into the face of the corpse he recog- nized 1t as that of his cousin
 Joe Garrett, as I live!' he exclaimed. and all questions that were put to him were satisfactorily answered. When asked If there was any mark on his cousin he described exactly a large scar on the left arm, and told how it had been in hicted When the arm was barred it tal- lied with his words
 Railroad Man.
 According to MT. Holiness MT. Garrett was a resident of Tallapoosa, Ga. and had been In this city for about four months. He worked at Coalburg for a time. and then to and fro as brakeman on the Southern railroad. During the last few weeks, it Is said, he failed to re- home pd habits.
 The mother will arrive from Tallapoosa, Ga, this morning on the first train, hay ing hastened quickly to the side of her dead son. She will determine upon the arrangements on arrival. but it is .prob- able that the remains will be taken back to Tallapoosa for interment.
 Jury to Investigate.
 Coroner Paris, who has been al uo,l. on the case from the time of the trag- edy' will empannel a jury this morning and proceed with an investigation. There are number of witnesses who will ha examined. From all that can be learned it seems that Garrett was out for a good time with a large roll of bills.
 In house on the Southside he dis played the money in the presence of two men and several women. When he left the men followed him to a restaurant, and there tried to take the money away from him, representing themselves as his ia ther and brother. and claiming to spec tators that Garrett was trying to get away with the roll, part of which was theirs
 He escaped them there, and was fol- lowed to another point where one of the men struck him over the head with a skantling, in the presence of a witness. and then carried the unconscious body off in carriage.
 The robbers went rapidly to Powell avenue and Eighteenth street. in the meantime rifiing his pockets of watch and all valuables, and dumped their hu- man load on the railroad tracks. Police man Hamilton, while patrollng his beat the next morning found him and he was taken to St. Vincents hospital, where he expired in few hours.
 The investigation today will probably develop the identity of the thieves, and the mystery will be finally cleared up