Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-28
COLD-b[OODED
 MURDERER HAS
 AGAIN ESCAPED
Boasting of Having Killed Seventeen Men, Kentucky Mountain Desperate EIudeS His PurSuerS.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 27-l A trail six miles long, leading to an abandoned road on the side of Look out mountain, was all the information which the bloodhounds could give a
 posse of deputy sheriffs and citizens | as to the direction in which D. D. Edwards, the Kentucky mountain ces- 1 perado, had gone after murdering J. w. Davis at his home in Alton Park i late last night. Edwards boasted | that he had previously killed sixteen men.
 Deputy sheriffs stationed at various | points for miles around are still watching for Edwards, while the au- thorities of Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky have been notified to be | on the lookout for him. It is believed that he will take the same route
 back to Kentucky which he took in
 the pursuit of Ed. Turner, the Breath.
 it county murderer, who was cap tured and brought back to Chatta- nooga and hanged through the efforts of Edwards Edwards committed his seven teenth murder while out on bond, awaiting his fourth trial for the mur- der of Sam Brooks, negro, eighteen
 months ago. He was employed byI Davis at the railroad construction camp of W. J. Oliver and company,
 near Alton Park. Yesterday he quar-
 reled with Davis, who immediately | discharged him, but afterwards told 1 him he could return to work this
 morning on sobering up. Late last night he went to the two-rOom cabin which Davis and his family occupied near the works and knocked on the door of the room in which Davis and ! his wife were sleeping. Davis came ! to the door and Edwards asked him | if he could go to work this morning. Davis said he could and started toI l close the door, when Edwards pushed it open and shot him dead, al | few feet from where his wife was crouched in horror.
 Mrs. Davis screams aroused the
 neighborhood and search was made | for Edwards, but he got safely away.
 Edwards is about thirty-f1ve years ! old. He came to Chattanooga two | years ago from Breathitt county, af- 1 ter serving a term in the Kentucky ] penitentiary for shooting a man. He
 was employed in the yards of the l Cincinnati Southern railroad. He had | not been at work more than two
 months when he shot and killed a ne ! gro in the yards. After the first of three trials in which the juries failed to agree, he was allowed to go on his
 own recogniZance. He was later re- turned to jail for attempting to shoot | another man, until after the murder of. Lillian Turner by her husband, Ed Turner, of Breathitt county. Edwards told Sheriff Shipp he had i served in the Frankfort penitentiary with Turner, and that if he was al | lowed to go he would locate him and bring him back He also agreed to return for his own trial. The proposi- tion was accepted. Edwards trailed Turner through Georgia, South Caro- lima and North Carolina into Ken | lucky, finally locating him in Lee county. Edwards went to the house of James McCombes, a relative of Turner, and won a place for himself in the household by a recital of his | association with Turner in the Frank fort penitentiary. He saw no sign of Turner until the night of the third day when he followed the daughter
 of the family to cave in the noun tains. He learned that the child was 1 carrying food to an old man who was in hiding there. He remained there two days longer, when he SC
 cured the confidence of McCombs and learned that Turner was staying with
 relative about twenty miles away Within twelve hours he had notified
 the sheriff of the county, and had |, Turner arrested and brought back to
 this city and convicted and hanged, Edwards returned to Chattanooga, as he had promised and was received
 at the county jail. Only a few per
 sons outside of the officials of the
 jail knew of Edwards absence from the city until after the hanging of Turner. After his third trial Edwards } had been released on bond of SPA t GOO, which was granted as reward 2 for his service in the capture of Fur - ner.