Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-03-14
HYPNOTIC POWER HELD
HER, SAYS MRS. PANNELL
Slayer of Husband BareS Sc
CretS of Married Life-Grand
Jury 10 Probe Killing

That /. T.. Pannell was more of a
beast than "a man; that he scoffed ut the
idea of virtue and goodness in women
and urged herself and daughter TO en-
ter upon dfssolute lives; that he held
her love with hypnotic power despite
the awful conditions under which he
made her live, were statements made
Saturday by Mrs. Hollie Pannell through
her attorney, John A. Boyl1in.
Awaiting action by the grand jury,
Mrs Pannell. who shot and killed her
husband L. z. Pannel, Wednesday morn
ing. is still confined at the police station.
Her statement Saturday was made large
ly because of the assertions by Mrs. An
ME Farmer. the mother of Pannell, that
her son was a man OF ne character
who would never modest or harm a won-
an. The body of Pannell is sill I'M
buried. 1t is at the Greenberg & BOND
undertaking establishment, pierced ~
the four bullets that caused death
Although Mrs. Pannell viii not give
an account Of the actual shooting be-
yond the statement made to The journal
that IL was in defense of her daughter
Elva's honor, her many Atlanta rela-
tives scott at the assertions Of the prose-
cution that she shot Pannell while the
latter was quietly eating breakfast.
They point out that the body was
found on the floor, sprawled face down
ward: that no chair was overturned, as
Il would have been if he was shot while
sitting down and then fell to the floor;
that the range of the bullets through the
body indicates, if they indicate any
thing, that he was standing while shot
because three Of them range upward.
Mrs. Psnnell's statement, in brief,
was:
That she and her children followed
her husband from pillar to post in If
ten or twenty towns since 1907. and
that there was not a single place in
which Pannell did not get into scandal
with q woman.
That Mrs. Farmer, Pannels mother.
knows little or nothing of her sons 81
married life because, until he moved
to Atlanta several weeks ago, she had
seen him for but ono day in the past
fourteen years.
That this day was last summer, and
at that time Pannell came from Green's
boro. ". C., TO Atlanta to see his mother
Ut Mrs. Pannells urgent suggestion;
that he did not stay longer than a day,
because on the way 20 Atlanta, he met
4 woman from High Point y. c., and
hurried back from his mother TO stop
over at IIish Point win this woman be-
borO.
That in 1907, when Pannell lost his
job at Lafayette. La, because Of mis-
conduct Mrs. Pannell and her daughters
(thcn but two came to Atlanta that
they were so destitute that Helen, the
oungest child. was placed i'm the Home
for the Friendless by Probation officer
Gloer.
That at the end Of six months, she
finally heard from her husband in Beau
mont, Tex; that she and the children
vent back TO him there, but he had to
cave town hurriedly because he insulted
A lady; that he went to Houston. Tex,
nder an assumed name, and that she
md her children Joined him there, but
&c couldn't support them and they had
o get transportation from the chief St
police back to Atlanta again.
Then Mrs. PannelI narrates how they
went from one city to another, naming