The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-09
WOOD JOINS WOMAN IN JAIL Held as Accomplice of
 Mrs. Pope. PROBING INTO AWFUL CRIME Officers Declare They Now Have
 the Evidence. Mir. King Was Killed by Two Per- sons and Her Daughter With
 Little Children is in

Montevallo, March 8.-(Special)- Charged with being an accompiice or Mrs. Hattie Pope. in the brutal mur- der of her aged and innrm mother' Mrs. King, Warren Wood was arrest ed today and taken to Clanton. where was lodged in jail.
 According to officers who have been Investigating the crime. conclusive evidence of the guilt of Mrs. Pope was unearthed today. It was reported by them in Montevallo tonight, that there had been found in the trunk of the woman now In jail. bloody knife and bloody clothing. The knife, 1t is believed. was used to cut tho throat of the aged woman, after she had been beaten insensible by the murderers. The bloody garments were those of Mrs. Pope.
 A tale of Illicit love is told in ret- erence to the implication of Warren Wood. as an acoomplice of Mrs Pope. It Is stated by the authorities that Wood. since the separation of Mrs. Pope from her husband several months ago, has been living at the home of the murdered woman. as boarder. He is a young man and but little Is known of him in Montevallo. He stoutly denies that he had anything at all to do with the crime.
 Two Counties Aroused.
 Two counties are aroused over the developments in this case. When the aged woman was found murdered with her throat cut and her head crushed in. the entire neighborhood seven miles from here and in Chiffon county, was mortified at the brutality of the crime First investigation the rear of the house. but that the murderers did not complete their work and the body was thrown into the middle of a room. where 1t was found.
 The foot prints ct the grave were Identical with those made by the shoes of Mrs. Pope. the daughter of the murdered woman, and her arrest was speedily accomplished
 The authorities in the vicinity of the crime were not satisfied with tho report of the coroner's jury. which accused Mrs. Pope. alone with having committed the deed as 1t could not be determined how the woman had been able to hurl the body of the murdered woman through the window of the room. without causing more blood to be smeared on the wood work As the window was several feet from the ground, 1t was evident that 1t had taken more than one person to throw the body to the height to which 1t was thrown. Further investigation. 1t Is said. showed that there were the foot prints of more than one person on the loose earth about the unified grave and these foot prints, 1t is said, were those of a man and not wo- man.
 Wood Is Suspected.
 Since Thursday the authorities have been on a quiet search for an accom- plice. Suspician at first was thrown on Warren Wood. who is about thirty two years of age. and for the past six or eight months had been a boarder with Mrs. Pope and her mother. Wood was a hard-working man. employed at a saw mill near the scene of the crime. and 1t was hard to believe that he was mixed up in the foul crime. but today the authorities believe that they had connected him with the crime and he was carried to Clanton.
 The woman, Mrs. Pope. after arrest was firm in the declaration that she knew nothing of the crime