Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-12

see you downtown. Then Yeakey whip
ped out a pistol and began to shoot"
Yeakey fired three times. The first
two bullets struck DonehOO on the right
side, and he fell. The third bullet bored
a hole through the door glass and shat
tered the lamp which Mrs. Donehoo held
in her hand. Yeakey turned and ran
The ambulance of A. o. & Roy Done
hoo was summoned and Donehoo was
rushed to the Wesley Memorial hospital
His wife went with him and stayed at
his bedside throughout the night. He
was conscious and sufferc@ great pain.
The county police were notified of the
shooting. They began a search for
Yeakey and arrested him later in the
evening on the Howell Mill road. He
was taken to the Tower.
There Wednesday morning he reiter-
ated TO newspaper men the statement he
made Tuesday night, that he shot Dom
ehOo because he had wronged his Sis
ter.
Mrs. Donehoo was seen Wednesday
morning at the Wesley Memorial hos
pital and confirmed to a Journal re-
porter her statement to Roy Donehoo.
She was pacing up and down the corri-
dor outside her husbands room. but she
was cool and collected.
They won't let me talk to him." she
| said, but 1 can go in and look at him
and he can look at me. l don't believe
Paul did that girl any wrong and 1 am
going to stick by him. It's a wife's
duty and besides. I love him"
Miss Lily Yeakey, at Grady hospital,
told a Journal reporter Wednesday morn
ing that she had been engaged to marry
Paul DonehOO since last July, that the
wedding was set for October 25. and that
the Friday night before Donehoo's mar
riage TO the Mcclellan girl. he came to
see her and broke the news.
i didn't make a scene when he told
me he was under obligations to marry
the other girl, though 1 was deeply
hurt" said Miss Yeakey. She was but
slightly agitated as she talked.
Il was living then with Mrs. Abe
| Massar, Of 23S West Fourteenth street,
where 1 had been staying for about two
years She knew my condition and when
1 became worse last Sunday, she told
my sister, Eva, about it, Eva told Cor
don. Sunday night Gordon came to see
me, and 1 told him all about me and
Paul.
He had a long pistol with him. He
said he didn't know Paul Donehoo, but
he was going out TO find him. 1 begged
, him not TO. for / didn't want to see
Paul hurt, whether he deserved il or
| hospital.
MY mother, Mrs. A. L. Yeakey, came
to see me Tuesday afternoon and told
me then that Gordon was looking for
Paul, but didn't see Gordon any more
after Sunday night. when I pleaded
with him TO let Paul alone. and / didn't
know anything about the shooting until
/ this morning. 1 wish you would tell
me about Gordon. Was he hurt? Was
/ there a ight2 Is he in jail?"
| Mrs. a. r. Yeakey, mother of Gordon
and Lily. was seen at her home on Nc
/ Afee street by a Journal reporter and
| confirmed her daughters story of her
! enga cement to Paul Donehoo.
paul never came TO our house" said
I Mrs Yeakey. HE used to go to see
! Lily at Mrs. Masser's home near the
l steel works. l told Lily il looked kind
/ Of funny that the man she was going TO
marry didn't come around to meet his
I mOther-in-law, but she always smoothed
I il over We were all expecting the mar
l rage to take place in October. We had
I even given a linen shower and made the
I wedding dress It's at home now. If had
known what the truth was. / would have
killed him myself instead of letting my
son do it,"