The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-11
Police Confident They Have Solved Mystery of Murder on Mulga Road-Bloody Handkerchief Found Near Body
THE INITIALS ON IT ARE NOT W-33, SAYS
 THE CORONER, BUT
 WILL NOT SAY MORE

Vh 4YASht oi 1Idk& dliIA oA-
 aware That Son Carried Heavy
 Insurance - How Policies Were
 Secured Told
 The police believe they have solved the mystery of the nssassinatson of M. Q. Barton. who WIS murdered on the MuIga rond last Thursday night and whose body was round Friday morning at II o'clock.
 Chief Enann last night snids "Wc believe we are on the right track An other arrest. or maybe more, will be made soon.s He declined to say more.
 The most interesting development yesterday was the finding at the scene of the murder handkerchief which had been saturated in the blood of the victim.
 possession md I am going to keep It, said Coroner Spain. When asked If the handkerchief had any initials it he saidi "It certainly has, but I cannot divulge what they are. I will say, however, that the initials are not .M-33.' ! have been cosnsxant of the fact that Barton carried m enormous amount of insurance all along, aI- though I wns in hopes the press would working hard upon this case and | am satisfied we will he nbIc to pin the crime upon the guilty ones soon."
 According to the detectives, the hand kerchief was found Just few inches from the left hand of the victim. It appeared as If Barton had clutched at 1t and had succeeded in jerking 1t from the assassin s hand.
 Statement From Detectives
 Detectives crenshaw and Eubanks have been at work necessarily since the arrest Of Louis Walton, who was formerly con- nected with the now bankrupt concern of Walton Morrow Grocery company, and his empoye. E. E. Mason. These two men were the last 10 see Barton alive and had accompanied him to Mulga on the evening Of his murder.
 In a statement made last night Detec- tive Crenshaw said:
 Link by link we have connected these two men on circumstan ntial evidence with opinion that we have the right men. Our investigations have just begun More ar rests may be expected.'
 Detective Eubank said
 We know that Walton paid the pre- miums due upon the life insurance of M. o. Barton last Thursday about noon This was the day upon which the mur- der was committe. We know that Walton was in need of funds. Court records show Walton was the principal stockholder. went into bankruptcy on February IT last We know that Barton was to have called at the poultry farm of Walton at S:30 on the night of the murder and that Walton was to have accompanied him to Ensley and that Barton never arrived in Ensley. but was murdered that night on the Mulga road"
 H. A. Barton. father of the victim of Thursday nights tragedy, in statement made to the police early yesterday morn- HE, SdlQ I1dt ne WAS HDI dWdTe OI In6 fact that his son had any insurance what soever He said that his son was of an easy going nature and had every conf dence in the world in Walton.
 Tn fact" said MT. Barton, my son had lived with Mr. Walton at the latter s residence up until the time of the bank ruptcy. After that he came back to the house and remained with us. He had an engagement to meet MT. German of Io JTr-o oy,lxl lir e. Era pJy1ip Co. on the morning that his body was found. He was hard-working, steady boy and I cannot conceive of him having an enemy in the world"
 Mason's Statement
 Mason still sticks to his original
 statement 'walton and myself left
 Birmingham on an Ensley car last
 Thursday afternoon at about 3.36
 o'clock; we arrived in Ensley about
 o'clock he said yesterday. Bar
 ton was not at the place where we
 got off. but we found him shortly,
 and they sent me to the Boss Livery
 company to get team to go to Null
 ga. I was going out there to try and
 get job at the commissary. Walton
 and Barton were going to look at
 store which they had thought of rent
 ing and going into business It was
 about 43O when we got started, and
 when we got to the poultry farm or
 Walton we all got out I stood by the
 horse and buggy while Barton and
 Walton went to a vacant store nearby
 to look at it. MT. Monnell, the super
 irtendent of the poultry farm, then
 showed all of us some chickens that
 had just been matched. This was about
 545 D. m. to the best of my recollec-
 tion-it may have been little later
 Barton and l then climbed into the
 bucgv leaving Walton behind. and
 proceeded to the Mulga hotel, which is
 only mile distant from the poultry
 farm. l was introduced to several
 people After a while we went to sup
 per This was about $40. When sup
 per was over. Barton went on the
 front porch in company with young
 lady while I went to the parlor and
 watched the guests play setback.
 About BPS o'clock Barton asked me ] the time and when 1 told him he re-