Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-08
Police Seek One Bigbie to Explain
Causes Leading to the Tragic
Staying of "Mrs. ANDERSON" by
Husband, Who Then Kills Self.
Photograph Directs Attention to
Missing Man in Domestic Tan
gIe--Double Slayer Was Biga-
mist as Well, 1t Is Now Stated.

Detectives Saturday began hunt
Tor mysterious man named Blythe
In the belief that he can dissipate
the growing mystery concerning the
career of Andrew j. Amerson and
Mrs. ANDERSON" the young woman
known here as his wife and who's.
refusal to accept his affections aga il
caused the insanely jealous man to
slay both her and himself.
This sensational move on the part
of detectives to unravel the fatal love
tangle came when a photograph Of
Bigbie was found in the dead wom-
ans room at No. "a Trinity avenue.
and closely followed the arrival in
Atlanta Of w. r. Anderson, of War
then, Washington County, father of
the double slayer. The strange Big
bic photograph has added intensely
to the mystery because Of an in
scription across its face.
From Papa to Louise" is written
plainly in ink. The inscription is
signed 'Bigbie."
The photo is that of younger man
than ANDERSON
Louise" is the name of Mrs
Amersons'' seven-year- girl. who
now is supposed to be with an aunt,
Mrs Lemmie Fulton, in Alaga, Ala.
and who was sent there by the WON
an through fear that Anderson would
kill both mother and child.
Little Louise is said by persons liv-
ing in boarding houses where Amer
son and the young woman lived as
man and wife to have affectionately
called Anderson daddy"
Information furnished Saturday by
DR.. Horace Grant, of the Masonic Re-
lief Association, indicates that AM
erson and the dead woman were mar
ried and had been for at least seven
years, although 1t is now known pos
itively that Anderson has a wife and
two children living in Macon. lie
had been separated from this wife
eighteen months, according to the
elder Anderson. who, in statement
to The Georgian, removed all doubt as
to the Macon wife and children.
Hunting Diamond Ring.
DR. Grant has seen the marriage
certificate OF Anderson and the wom-
an he slew, and said they must have
been married seven years. From this
the police are inclined to the belief
that little Louise may really be the
daughter Of ANDERSON.
Detectives also are assiduously
searching for a 1000 diamond ring
which is known to have belonged to
Mrs. ANDERSON and is missing. II is
believed to have been pawned. but
despite a search of her effects Sat
urday the pawn ticket could MOI be
found
The woman told Miss Estele Pit
man. an acquaintance who boards in
the house at No. 90 Trinity avenue
that this was her engagement ring
from Anderson, and that she was
forced to pawn It TO obtain funds TO
care for herself and her little girl
That ANDERSON and the woman evil
IDENTIFY had at times been well off
financially Is further demonstrated by
the fact that the latter wore on her
fingers Ave handsome diamond rings
at the time she was shot to death in
Trinity avenue. When the clothing
Of Anderson was closely searched at
Harry G. Pooles undertaking parlors
a pawn ticket for a costly diamond
brooch was found.
This brooch was pawned in an Al
lanta pawnshop.
The rings on the dead woman's
hand are valued at more than $1,000.
Never Heard Of Dead Woman
Amerson's father told The Georgian
that he nod never seen or heard Of
the dead woman until no was notified
late Friday night of the double
tragedy. Her identity is as great a
mystery to the grief stricken father
as il IS to the police. If his son was
married TO her, the father knows
nothing of It. He said he metnnis son
last fall in Augusta, and tnAt the