The Paducah evening sun., 1910-04-15
SUSPECTS HELD
AT COUNTY JAIL
TEN DAYS LONGER
Both Are Sentenced in Police
Court on Charge Of
Vssrancy.
Generally Believed Drunken
Row Was Cause.
VICTIMS MOTHER MAY COME

Developments In the murder case
today were the sentencing of the two
suspects, Bert Guire and Albert Hale,
TO 10 days each In the county jail for
vagrancy, and the receipt of letter
from Mrs. Lum Thompson. mother OF
Luther Thompson, supposed to be
the victim of the murder.
Chief of Police Henry Singery has
succeeded in locating Mrs. Lum
Thompson. mother OF "Red" Thomp-
son. at Birmingham Ala. THIS
morning he received two letters from
her. stating that she had read news
paper accounts of her sons death
here. Both letters were dated April
13 and one indicates that RED"
Thompson had money as she said she
supposed he had enough to pay the
burial expenses.
Mrs. Thompson said she was a poor
woman and did not have means to
come to Paducah. She asked that
the body be turned over TO the un-
dertakers and given a decent burial
In order TO have the body positive
y identified the county officials here
may send Mrs Thompson a railroad
ticket and pay her expenses to Padu.
cah and return. II she identifies the
corpse as that of her son the body
will be buried here.
Neither letter said anything con.
corning the whereabouts OF the mur.
dered boy the week before. Mrs
Thompson asked for full details oi
her sons death She resides al
.127ik South Twentieth street, Birm.
ingham, Ala.
Held as Migrants.
This morning In police court Bert
CURE and Albert Hale pleaded guilty
to charges of vagrancy Gin not work
ing and in sleeping in railroad boz
cars). They were sentenced to ten
days each in the county jail and
were Immediately handcuffed togeth-
er and taken back to begin their sen
tence. At the end OF the sentence
both will be liberated unless the cir
cult court grand jury indicts either
or both for connection with the mur-
der of the Thompson boy. The court
room was crowded when Judge Gross
opened the session this morning but
no questions were asked the two
boys. Their charges were read and
when CURE was asked concerning It,
he replied: Guilty. judge. in that
way" Hale pleaded guilty imme-
diately.
The theory that Thompson was
killed just before dawn last Sunday
morning in the woods on the Pool
road by reason of his body being
warm when discovered at o'clock,
is substantiated by statement made
by Mrs. Lizzie Green, who conducts
a bench on the city market. Mrs.
Green lives just beyond the grocery
OF A. T. Langley in Littlesville, and
she brings her garden products to
Paducah early every morning. Mrs.
Green said she was up between 3 and
4 o'clock Sunday morning and her
attention was attracted to three
young men going down the Pool road
in the direction of the Union station.
She said she was unable to describe
them on account Of the darkness, but
says one Of the trio appeared TO be
drunk. One OF the others had
stick or something in his hand and
was driving the drunk boy on. The
third was following. Their voices
were raised and this is what attract
ed her attention. She was unable to
tell what they were saying. When
Thompson's body was found II was
slightly warm, and according TO Act
ing Coroner c. w. Emery and Under
takers Nance & Rogers. he could not
have been dead over three or four
hours when found at O'Clock.
Detective Collins refuses to talk
about the case. but admitted that
there was some proof against Hale or
Guire.
The circuit court grand jury con
yenes next week. The sentence
given CURE and Hale will expire on
Sunday, April "a.
Drunken Brawi.
The youth. whoever he was. was
killed saturday night during a
drunken brawl in a field along the
Pool road. This is the generally ac-
cepted theory concerning the murder,
which was discovered Sunday morn
ing trio. of which the dead boy
was one. seen going that way with
nlentv of whisky, and an empty
whisky bottle found near the scene
% tho crime, lend color to the theory.