The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-13
VISIT PLACE WHERE
 GIRL DROWNED Coroner Spain Will Investi- gate Kinds Case Today WOOD BOYS SILENT
Persons Said to Have Been Eyewit- nesses to Affair Will Be Sought by the
 Authorities

At 10 o'clock this morning Coroner Charles l.. Spain will go 10 Herb Shoals in an automobile to make an exam1- nation of the place where Ruth Hinds. the 15-year-od Wheeler Business college student is alleged to have been drowned last Fourth of July. Chief of Police Martin Eagan, Chief of Detectives syd- ney Darnell, and newspaper men will ac- company the coroner.
 The trip to Herb Shoals will be made with the object Of seeking several per sons who reside in that locality and who are alleged to have actually seen the drowning of Miss Hinds. It Is also the purpose of the coroner to ascertain the depth of the water where the girls body was found. The evidence now in the hands of Chief Martin Eagan Is 10 the effect that Miss Hinds was drowned in two and ons-half feet or water,
 At the city jail yesterday Charles Wood and his brother R. P. CPete) Wood. proved obdurate to all questions. They would not talk-they would not even answer the offiuOs and assumed a calm. yet defiant attitude.
 Ruth Nell Hinds, the daughter of R. F. Hinds, a machinist who resides at
  party on the night of July g. The party was chaperoned by k. P. Wood and his wife His brother, Charles Wood and another young woman made up the rest of the party. The trip to Herb Shoals was made in an automobile.
 About Il o'clock on the morning of the Fourth of July, Ruth Nell Hinds drowned. hre first accounts of the af- fair reached Ensey through three women who had been at Herb Shoases on a picnic and saw the actual drown ing. In Birmingham inquiries made as to the drowning brought forth the state ment from both Wood brothers that Ruth Hinds had waded Into deep pool and-drowned before she could be rescued. The Wood brothers stated that they had nearly lost their own lives In an attempt to save the drowning girl.
 All of the Birmingham daily papers printed the account of the drowning. just as the Wood brothers described tho tragedy and the funeral of the young girl passed off without rumors of any foul play being connected with the drown- ing coming to the surface. However. on Saturday night, without any warnings Detectives Pittman and 'Posey' Taylor, acting under instructions of Coroner Charles l.. Spain and Chief Martin Eagan arrested R. P. Wood, and later his brother. Charles Wood, and placed them both in the city jail charged with the murder of Miss Hinds.
 According to the detectives. they had been working on the case the entire week in conjunction with Coroner Spain to whom several persons had made some ser sational affidavits regarding tho drowning of the Hinds girl. The arrest of the Wood brothers came when the detectives state they found they had enough evidence on which to secure 8 warrant.
 Throughout the city yesterday there were many comments on the arrest of the Wood boys in connection with tho drowning of Miss Hinds. Developments in the case were necessarily delayed yesterday because Coroner Spain was unable to leave his home because of the serious illness of his daughter. Myrtle. with typhoid fever,
 One of the probabilities following the trip of Coroner Spain to Herb Shaols, Is that the body of Miss Hinds will be exfumed for post mortem examina- tion.