Americus times-recorder., 1919-11-14
BLOODY KNIFE
And OVERALLS
IDENTIFIED AS
OWNED BY HIM
Slain Woman's Mother
In-Law Cla1nors For
Her Freedom

eSP A0AoSeu W come TO Cne haunt
ed eyes of Sam Duckworth last Nigh.
Held In a cell at the county Jail un-
der warrant charging him with the
CHASTITY staying of his wife, whose
body, with her thrcat cut, was found
IN well at their home near Hunt
lngton "Wednesday night, he paced the
moor all night. Walter Wilson. his
cell mate, also held for murder, told
Deputy Sheriff Summers this morn
ing that Duckworth did not sleep for
an instant.
Duckworth's mother, Mrs. Sallie
Duckworth, held in another part of
the Jail under joint charge of muir
der with her son, created furore all
morning today, shouting through the
corridors and at the approach Of
anyone to be released.
IF Sammy cut Pearhe's throat
why do you keep me in jail" she de-
manded, and then opened TRADE on
the Office about her good breeding
and being brought up in manner to
make such treatment of her disgrace
full.
Bloody Overalls Found.
1t developed today that a pair of
overalls which have been identified
as belonging to Duckworth, and which
bore blood on one pocket where a
CORY hand had been thrust into it,
was found at the Duckworth home
following the murder. The pocket
knife, which lay with open blade be-
side a pool Of blood near the well,
has also been identified as belonging
to the husband, it was stated TODAY
by officers The negro, Sidney Ware.
who lived only a short distance away
from the Duckworths, and who with
his wife, Liza Ware, is held in con,
nection with the crime, when asked
before seeing the knife to describe the
one owned by Duckworth, is said to
have pictured the knife found at the
scene of the killing. He is the wit
ness who told at the inquest of Duck
worth having beaten his wife severely
several times on the afternoon of the
killing. 1t was he who accompanied
Duckworth to Americus, later re-
turning home and attending the in
quest.
Duckworth was captured near Lilly,
Dooly county, at the home of his
brother-in-law, Joe Howell. He was
traced when it was learned that on
the evening of the killing he had come
60 the office of Dr. John F. McMath.
Of Cotton avenue, Americus, wnere
he occurred some medicine, saying he
was going to the home of relative
in Dooly county who was i'll. It de-
veloped that no one in the Howell
family was i'll and his visit was un-
expected.
Intensely Sober Now.
The negro Ware testified, it was
said, that Duckworth, his mother, and
wife were all drunk on freshly made
liquor on the afternoon of the kill
ing, but when arrested and since then
Duckworth has been intensely sober.
He has had little to say, but has not
admitted killing his wife or knowing,
of the crime. It was his
mother who first gave information
that led to the discovery of the body.
This morning in the Jail the mother,
when demanding that she be released,
asked the officer if he believed she
was guilty.
IF you didn't kill that woman you
know who did," was the reply, to
which she is said to have made no
answer.
This morning Duckworth expressed
concern over the welfare of his T.
year-old daughter, who was alone with
his mother when the body of the slain
woman was recovered from the we'll.
Green Perry, owner of the farm on
which Duckworth was a cropper, came
to the Jail this morning and offered
to buy the child some clothing and
take it to an orphanage, where it
would be well cared for, to which the
father consented. Later, however,
sister and 'brother-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs Wesley Jackson, of this
county, appeared and he asked the
officers to give them the child, in
stead of allowing Mr. Perry to take it
to the orphanage When he insisted
that this course be followed, the off
Ger said to him:
Mothers Wild Career.
"a man who would cut his child's
mothers throat and throw her body
into the well isn't fit to hPve anything
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