Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-05
GIRL GONFESSES
SHOOTING At
OWLS CLUB
Declares Wounding Of County
Warden Was Accident-Both
Drinking, She Says.


was docketed against him His bond
was fixed at 800. It also was signed
by Holbrook. After he was released
Mrs. Ballue entered the cab and drove
away with Captain Thompson.
Members Of Mrs. Ballue's family
said Saturday morning that Captain
Thompson has been paying her atten-
lions for about a year She Is the
wife Of John Ballue. 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 at Nunnally's overall
Factory at Marietta and Alexander
Streets.
Arrested on Street.
Detectives Doyal and Waggoner.
attached to headquarters. arrested
Mrs. Ballue at Garnett 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 md either
the girl or Mr. Raoul at the club
rooms. started 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 Garrett
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 few
minutes a cab drove rapidly up to
the curbing and the door was flung
open A voice from within the cab
commanded the man and woman to
enter. and to hurry up"
As Raoul and Mrs. Ballue rushed
across the sidewalk and started TO
enter the cab the detectives recog-
nized them and hurried across the
street They accosted the two.
Woman Denies Shooting.
According TO stories told to Night
Chief Jet by Detective Waggoner.
both Raoul and the woman were
nervous when confronted by the Of
fcers. 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 for?
didn't shoot him!"
The woman then tried to 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 uttersnce
Of the woman when they placed her
under arrest was significant. Wag-
guner, 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 10 wait 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. Hen
version of the AFFAIR. as told to Chief
lett 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 bu
one glass of wine before the shooting
Her escort, II is said was drinking
highballs and rickeys, but was no
intoxicated. Two other men, seated
at a table near the doorway wer,
the only other occupants Of the room
After they had sat at the table 10
perhaps an hour, the woman says
Captain Thompson asked her to pla,
the piano She played popular mu
sic for some moments she said, an,
did not hear a shot which, she said
came as she was playing ragtime il
a particularly loud key. She sal,
she supposed the sound OF the plan
drowned the shot. AS she softenet
the tones Of the piano she heard tn