Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-05
GIRL CONFESSES
SHOOTING At
OWLS CLUB
Declares Wounding Of County
Warden Was AcCident-Both
Drinking, She Says.
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Lsnford reduced her bond from 1000
10 500 and changed the charge to
disorderly conduct It was signed by
her brother-in-law, w H. HoIbrook,
with whom she resides at IS Lynch
Street.
After the woman's release Captain
Thompson was brought TO headduar-
ters from Grady Hospital in a cab,
and a charge Of disorderiy conduct
was docketed against him His bond
was fixed at 500 II also was signed
by Holbrook. After he was released
Mrs. Ballue entered the cab and drove
away with Captain Thompson.
Members Of Mrs. BaIh1es family
said Saturday morning that Captain
Thompson has been paying her atten-
tiOns for about a year She IL the
wife Of John Balfue, a structural iron
worker. from whom she has been sep
arated for three years. She has no
children. For the past year she has
been employed al Nunnally's overall
Factory at Marietta and Alexander
Streets.
Arrested on Street.
Detectives Doyal and Waggoner,
attached to headquarters, arrested
Mrs. Ballue az Garrett and Pryor
Streets after what they asserted was
an attempt To spirit her away by L.
c. Raoul. secretary Of the owls Club.
The detectives, unable to fnd either
the girl OF Mr. Raoul at the club
rooms started a search. They learned
the girl and the secretary had slipped
quietly down the back stairs half an
hour after the shooting OF Captain
Thompson. They hurried down Pryor
Street. hoping to intercept them be-
fore the girl was taken away.
AS they neared Pryor and Gamett
Streets the detectives saw man and
a woman lurking in the shadows Of
the building Not knowing whether
they were Mrs Ballue and Mr.. Raoul
or strangers. Doyal and Waggoner Sc
GREETED themselves across the street
and awaited developments. In a few
minutes a cab drove rapidly up TO
the curbing and the door was hung
open A voice from within the cab
commanded the man and woman 20
enter and to hurry up"
As Raoul and Mrs. Ballue rushed
across the sidewalk and started 10
enter the cab the detectives recog
nized them and hurried across the
street They accosted the two.
Woman Denies Shooting.
According 10 stories told to Night
Chief Jett by Detective Waggoner,
both Raoul and the woman were
nervous when confronted by the Of
ficers. Raoul did not speak, they said,
after they grasped his arm, but the
woman twisted away from the de-
tective who held her and faced them.
She demanded:
What do you want me for7
didn't shoot himl"
The woman then tried 10 break
away and enter the waiting cab, but
the officers ordered her to go to head
quarters with them Raoul, too. went
along.
The detectives claim the utterance
of the woman when they placed her
under arrest was significant Wag-
Roner, whom she asked why she was
wanted. and whom she told she had
not shot Captain Thompson, declared
that he had not mentioned the shoot
ing or told her why she was wanted.
He and his partner Doyal, had sim
ply told them TO walt a moment,
catching them just as they started to
hurry into the cab.
At headquarters Friday night the
woman answered the questions put
TO her by Chief Jett readily and COM
posedly, and emphatically denied that
she had shot Captain Thompson. Her
version of the affair, as told to Chief
Jet, is as follows:
Other Women in Room.
She has known Captain Thompson
for some time, she declared, and last
night had gone with him to the club.
They entered the reception parlors of
the club and took a seat at one OF the
tables. She claims she had drank but
one glass Of wine before the shooting.
Her escort. II is said, was drinking
highballs and rickeys, but was not
intoxicated. Two other men, seated
at a table near the doorway, were
the only other occupants of the room.
After they had sat at the table for
perhaps an hour, the woman says,
Captain Thompson asked her to play
the piano. She played popular mu-
sic for some moments, she said, and
did not hear a shot which, she said,
came as she was playing ragtime in
q particularly loud key. She said
she supposed the sound Of the piano
drowned the shot AS she softened
the tones of the uiano she heard the