The Paducah evening sun., 1910-05-04
LUTHER THOMPSON
HAS RETURNED TO
DAYTON, TENN?
Captain Thompson Says Boy
Got Back From Birmine.
ham Sunday.
Mother Says He Never Was
In Birmingham.
POOL ROAD MURDER MYSTERY

Attorney David Browning. repre-
senting Beit Guire and Albert Hale,
,usuects held for the murder Of the
,outh on the POOL road, Identified as
Luti,er (ReD Thompson. today sent
instructions 60 Bert CURES brother
to go io Dayton. Tenn, get the
youth, who says he n "Red" rhomp-
son. aud take him 10 his mother at
Birmingham.
Unless county officials. who now
have charge OF the Pool road mur-
der case. institute an Investigation,
which will include the positive
Identification OF the body buried at
Decatur. Ala. rs that of Luther
(Red) Thompson. and the exposure
Of the relation OF the person At Day
ton. Tenn. who claims TO be Red"
Thomps0n. to the crime. the case
against Bert CURE and Albert Hale.
the suspects held In the county jail
will remain Unsatisfactory.
This morning Chief OF Police SIN
gerry received a letter from Mrs.
Lum Thompson. mother OF Red"
Thompson. She says nobody claim
ing to be her son has appeared In
birmingham, and she is terribly dis
tressed over what she considers n
plot ~ prevent vengeance on the
slayers OF her son. whom she is
positive she buried at Decatur.
Al the same time The Evening
II la9N 4 IL
Thompson. captain OF the steamer
Lulu Warren. dated Sunday. May l..
NJ Dayton. Tenn. In which he says
that Luther (Red) Thompson Ia
with him: that the boy left him
april "a to go 10 Birmingham, and
returned TO him the day he wrote.
The Identity OF Captain Thompson
IS unquestionable. A telegram was
sent from this oifice 20 the Western
Union manager at Dayton. inquiring
who was sending messages 10 The
Evening sun In the name Of Cap
tain Thompson. The answer came
back that the message was turned
over 10 the Dayton Coal and Iron
company. owner Of the Lulu War
ren. and was telephoned three miles
up the river to Captain Thompson
over the company's private wire.
The letter stated that IL was in
answer 10 the telegram.
This establishes Captain Thomp-
son as a real person; but II does
not explain why Luther (Red)
Thompson. who left him April "a TO
go To Birmingham 10 see his mother.
never saw her and returned 10 Day
ton. May 1. with the eyasive infor-
nation that his folks didn't know
what TO think.
An investigation at that end OF
the line might be productive OF
some interesting evidence In connec-
tion with the case.
II Is probable. too, that an In
vestlgation will be made over the
course CURE and Hale took sunday
morning. April 10. when they estab-
llsh the fact that they went across
the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers
on a freight train. The theory OF
the defense is that IL the boys we're
there az 1880 o'clock In the morn
ing. they must have left Paducah
very early. too early to have COM
mlttod the crime. The police say
their whereabouts are unaccounted
for from II o'clock Saturday night
until 1880 o'clock Sunday morning,
except for their own explanation
that they remained In a freight car
from the time they arrived In Padu-
cah saturday until the car was
pulled out over the Louisville di-
vision Sunday morning.
Capt. Thompson's Letter.
The Evening Sun received the fol-
lowing letter today from Captain
Thompson:
Dayton. Tenn, May /, 1910.
To the Sun, Paduca:
In reply TO Telegram for infor-
nation will say that Luther
Thompson is with me now and has
bin since Feb. goth excepting Of a
few days first of whitch he was
away at Chattanooga a day or two
az the time this murder was com
mited when he returned TO work
and this notice of his murder in the
Chattanooga Times when he wrot
the Times denouncing the murder
of himself but says he knows Burt
Guire but did not know the other
fellow connected with the murder
and again he left on the % OF
April to go TO Birmingham. Ala, to
satisiie his mother that he is still
alive but returned this morning
again l asked him what his people
thought or said he said they didn't
know what to think. ] asked him
about his mother bringing the mur-