Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19
NO VERDICT YET IN
THE ASHFORD INQUEST
Coroner AdjournS to Allow
Detectives More Time to
Investigate

After examining a number OF wit
nesses Saturday afternoon. the coroner's
jury empanelled 10 hold an inquest over
the body OF Mr.. 7. B. Ashford. who was
found in a dying condition Friday night
about O'Clock near the corner of
Peachtree and Fourteenth streets. was
adjourned by Coroner Donehoo. the in
PRODUCTION Of testimony TO begin again
Monday afternoon at o'clock
The coroner said that insufficient evil
dence had been submitted and that he
wished TO allow Detectives HolIings-
worth and Davis more time TO invesri-
gate certain phases Of the case.
That the death OF Mr.. Ashford was
caused by a soft. yielding instrument
such as a Sandbag. was the opinion OF
DR.. L Sage Hardin. surgeon who per-
formed q trephining operation upon
Mr. Ashford in an effort TO save his life,
Immediately after he was received into
the Grady hospital and thirty minutes
following his discovery in the road.
wHELP OVER EYE.
DR.. Hardin told the jury that a long
whelp over an area two Inrnes wide and
extending from the left eye TO the &C.
cipital rise on the left side of the head,
a
and that the brain itself was torn up.
He said that the skull was not frac-
tured, and that only such a weapon
could have produced the effect il did.
II developed at the inquest that the
unknown woman who called the police
Friday evening and told them that there
twas q dead man in the street was the
maid OF Mrs. c. A. COnklin. whose home
is at the corner OF Fourteenth and Peach
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tective John HollingswOrth, observed a
crowd in the street and called the police.
Clarence Everette. Of SIS East Fifteenth
street, told Of finding Mr.. Ashford. He
said he discovered him about SOS or
$40 o'clock Just after he left a Peach
tree to Piedmont park car at Fourteenth
street where il turned OF Peachtree. and
started 10 walk the remaining block TO
his home.
According TO Mr.. Everette Mr.. Ash
ford was lying on his back within few
inches Of the car track There was no
dust on his clothing and nothing TO indi-
cate he had been rolled on the pavement.
Mr.. Everette said he notified his son, L.
c. Everette. who lived nearby at SO
Peachtree street. and he called Assist
ant Police Chief E L. Jett, who dis
patched two motorcycle officers TO the
scene.
Mr.. Everette 1urniSned clue that
detectives say will be valuable. when he
stated that a motorcycle with a tandem
attached was standing, with it's engine
running. a few yards distant from
where Mr.. Ashford was found. After
he had gone TO his sons house TO tele-
phone. and returned. the motorcycle had
vanished
MOTORCYCLE EPISODE.
The motorcycle episode was again
brought in when Henry Jackson, a
young clerk AT Marshalrs pharmacy at
the corner of Peachtree and Tenth
streets, testified Jackson positively
identified the body as that of the man
who he had ridden out on a Peachtree
car with at o'clock Friday evening.
He said that at 7:15 a motorcycle with
a tandem attached. a Harley-DavidsOn,
drove UP TO the drug store and said
that the police should be sent TO
Fourteenth street. as man was lying
I'm the street up here.
This was an hour before the body
was found by Mr. Everett Jackson
swore that the motorcycle was gray.
while Mr. Everett said that he thought
IL was red The latter stated that the
headlight blinded his eyes
Detectives Davis and Hollingsworth
are disposed TO think that a motorcycle
or an automobile must have caused the
death of Mr.. Ashford
Coroner Donehoo adjourned the hear
ing until Monday afternoon.
The body of Mr.. Ashford will be sent
to watkinsville. Ga. early today, and
the funeral will occur there this after
noon at the residence of his uncle, ". c.
Ashford.