The Paducah evening sun., 1910-04-30

where she positively identified the
body as that of her son. 4
Alleged letters from the upper
Tennessee. and stories that the
youth had arrived at Birmingham
alive to convince his mother, never
moved the police. They stuck to
the theory that the dead boy was
Red" Thompson and that the men
under arrest know something of the
crime.
The Identification.
The Identification of the dead boy
was seemingly complete. The steam
boat captain viewed the body and
pronounced II that of Red" Thomp-
son, whom he knew as former as
sociate of Bert Guire. one of the
suspects. Then a chambermaid OF
the boat was taken to the morgue.
Complying with instructions from
the police the captain did not tell
the woman where she was going.
and when she was taken into the
morgue and shown the body. she
exclaimed at once that 1t was Red"
Thompson.
The mother was brought to Pa
ducah. She said the description
sent her tailed in every peculiarly
with that OF her son. The woman
and the boy resembled each other
greatly in the upper part OF the
face. The woman asked particularly
oA -. MI hAF
son and the dead boy both bore.
She. positively identified him. In
an interview given The Evening
Suns Birmingham correspondent
she said that the people OF Decatur,
Ala, who knew him best. all identi-
fed him. and the undertakers are
so positive OF the identity that they
told The Evening Suns Decatur
correspondent, they will disinter the
body and make the Identification
doubly sure IL the authorities re-
quest 1t.
The Other Story.
The story that Thompson arrived
home Wednesday morning was a
plain fake; because The Evening
Sun was in communication all day
Wednesday with Birmingham and
no such story was heard there.
Whether the story of the second
L"Red" Thompson is true or not,
II is a significant fact that the
story gained publicity Just at time
when the grand jury had under In
vestigation the circumstantial evil
dence against the men under arrest.
and the peace officers have been
somewhat disturbed by the reports;
for II is said that Commonwealth
Attorney John G. Lovett received
word yesterday that the resurrec-
ton is a hoax. II is believed In
dictments would have been returned
before this II the story OF Red
Thompson being alive had not been
sprung most opportunely.
The fact that CURE and Thomp-
son were companions once is the
serious feature in the case for Guire
and Hale, and once Red" Thomp-
son is brought to life, much OF the
lcircumstantial evidence loses its sig
nificance. The mere fact that these
1.-TWO fellows, confessedly beating
their way on trains, we're along the
track waiting for train within q
mile OF the scene of the murder
that morning, means nothing II
some entire stranger to them and
everybody is the dead man. Or
1.-THE other hand, II Red" Thompson
is the dead youth, and Bert Guire
and a companion, who II may be
lproved were seen the day before in
ltoxicated, were nearby trying to gel
lout of town the coincidence IL
worthy Of Investigation, at least
The steamboat mate, who paid
Guire and Hale after they had
light with the engineer week be
fore the murder, will testify. II
/ Is said the police have a woman
lwho said she saw Guire and Hale
and a red-headed young fellow &c
down an alley, in which she was
slipping beer from pail, and knock
at the door of house, from which
they were turned away. Then they
r passed her and they were quarrel
ing. They were going in the direc'
, tion Of the Union station at the
time. How closely the woman will
identify the three men under ex
T animation remains to be seen; but
: the value of that, like the value oi
everything else. depends much or
, the Identification of the dead man
> At all events. the police insist tha
some one was murdered and they
! have two suspects under arrest. ant