Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-21
FISHER STICKS To STORY
UNDER FIERCE CHILLING
Of LAWYER AND POLICE

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threatened me. You know you
f. threatened me, Shirley-you SNOW
, YOU did" and the strange man Shoes
! his head in a logged manner.
| Shirley sent me some letters with
money in them. Two he sent con
/ tanned s25 each. Another one CON
/ tanned IS
I've told the truth and ,t.I al como
out sooner or later" declared Fisher
with the air OF a philosopher
! Efforts TO shake the mans story
! were without results He would an
/ swer most any question in an uncon-
cerned way and refused to be tangled
up by the questions put 10 him by
| Graham, the chief and by reporters.
you are telling 2 most wondrols
! tale" said Graham, but YOU had bet
ter tell the truth before YOU get sent
to Jail for criminal libel
Denies Using Drugs.
# know what libel il" retorted
Fisher. and you can't send a man to
prison for telling The truth
What kind of dope 90 you use,
morphine or cocaine" someone "sho,
at him.
None" said Fisher.
You look like you did said one #
/ the detectives
That's because / need drink y 81
one he replied.
he 4 M
He had been given all the whisky ne
wanted while in the hands OF the - .
torneys. and was reluctant TO leave
such a nice abode, His face needed
hours work by barber and bath
would not have harmed him.
Chummy or Rummy!
Fisher said that while in Parksville
he met a man by the name of Joe
Hicks. who was employed on the rail
road with him, and that they became
quite "Chummy
"You mean 'rummy, don't you.
Fisher" interposed Shirley's brother,
Fisher went on to say that Hicks
went to Birmingham with him some
weeks ago and that they had stayed
together there Hicks, he said, was
the first person he ever told the story
of his movements on the day Of the
murder of Mary Phagan. He never
even had told his wife.
You know that all she wants is to
keep me in jail, don't your he asked,
addressing the Shirley brothers.
Well just let drop a hint or two
at first | told him that they didn't
have the murderer of Mary Phagan
! and that knew who the real muir
derer was. He told me that | ought
| to tell if | knew. Then | went on to
| tell him the whole thing just as
have told it here, After he had kept
telling me that | ought not to let an
innocent man hang, it just kind of got
on my conscience Finally. he went
with me Friday TO Chief Bodeker's
office and we told the whole thing
who did the most talking" in
quired Chief L.anford
WHY, ! guess Hicks did" said
Fisher.
After the questioning OF Fisher was
over L.anford said
Search for Conspiracy
we are going 10 get at the bot
tom Of this. 1t may be that Fisher
has been paid money. but | am goine
TO investigate the possibility that II
! was someone else and not Shirley
! that paid it TO him. If there is any
| conspiracy against shirley or in be
| half of anyone else. the detective de
( partment proposes 10 find II out Il
/ possible Fisher has absolutely n,
evidence that money was sent him
/ lie has ne envelopes from Shirley. lie
says he lore them up He says tie
/ letters were not registered and ne
| says that all of the money was sen
!. in cash. Altogether II is the mos
! ridiculous story | ever listened TO-.