The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-06
MYSTERY Still
SHROUDS CRIME
Police Looking to Cooper's
Watch to Throw Light
on Murder.
FINGER PRINT EXPERT

Nashville, Sept. 6.-(Special)-
After following theories and clues for
week in the search for the man or
| men who murdered Robin Cooper,
| whose body was found in Richland
creek last Saturday morning shortly
before IL o'clock half mile or moro
| from the point in Belle Meade park,
| where his abandoned and blood
stained automobile was discovered.
| officers are now looking to his watch
as possible clue leading to the per-
petrators of the crime.
1t has been developed that Mr..
| Cooper carried a watch. 1t was a
gold timepiece with an open face and
| with the initials, "R. J. c." worked
I into monogram on the back. in the
| right side pocket of his trousers
when the clothing was searched, was
| found a silver pencil holder or watch
knife with an Egyptian design on it.
Attached to this trinket was about
four inches of chain. Mrs. Cooper
| told the officers that Mr.. Cooper car
ried a watch, but no track of it has
| been discovered. Some are inclined
| to the belief that the watch, if not
| thrown away or destroyed, may yet
turn up and lead to the apprehension
Of the guilty.
This morning shortly after Q
O'Clock, Capt. Robert C. Dunning,
! fingerprint expert Of the Cincinnati
department, arrived at the 0tf'ce of
Chief of Detectives Sidebottom. He
came to Nashville at the request OF
Chief William Copeland, of the Chic
metropolis, after receipt of mess
+ SAGE from Chief Sidebottom.
Officers were asked whether or not
/ finger prints of persenos questioned
in connection with the mystery had
been secured, but the answer was
| evasive.
Chief Sidebottom, however, saId
| that no person yet examined or qlIcS-
| toned with respect to any possible
| information bearing upon the mys-
terry had burns upon his wrist. The
chief, however, refused to comment
upon a story published in a local
| newspaper, which claimed to have
| fortune-teller dope" While receiv-
ing no attention from the officers
working on the case another anony-
nous communication was received
in Chief Barthell's mail today, bear
ing the postmark of Carson City,
New.
Inc paper on Whlch the message
was written was folded about a news
paper dispatch with one paragraph
marked in ink
Axn ..
Nno"Shous Letter'
me envelope showed that the let
ter had been mailed Sept. ,, in the
afternoon, and the message read:
"He got his reward. I cot mine p" Re
roo+b tb;s n,as sar5,1t,,,,i
la,is "ao lpVui al quold
tloh; o'lcers attach niue importance
| to these communications, but as they
are received from various sections of
the country. Would Indicate that
MANY nersons ore foIIowirg deyoIonN
- 20 Us a. toiio"ihe uS'e'op-
Hloilts IN the mystery
me anonymous letters which have
coinc 10 the olhcers ana others lndl-
cate lhet many persons are deNeloplng
cues winch they thlnk may be OF real
service III sowing the mufder.
,,.,, Laboratory Tests
Dr. WNlah Lltteter' hotcd NashVllle
pactelloIoglst ana chemist VINO is con-
| dqctihg laboratory tests to determine
WhethGr or not the blood spots found
| upon the oVerails OF Metcalt, the Cooper
gardeher' are human blood or blood
rom a chicken which the gardener