The sun., 1919-09-27
PSYCHIC ANALYST
SEES COOPER SLAIN
On Strength of Vision He Ar
rests Gardner and Holds
Cook as Accessory.
BOTH ASSERT INNOCENCE
Wife Of Young Lawyer in
Nashville Had Been Sep
arated From Him.
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Special UeSDdfch 70 IHh SuNs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Sept. 2s.-Dennis
r. Metcalf. charged with the murder OF
Robin J. Cooper. and Nora Lee Jones'
charged with being accessory before the
fact, were held to-day without bail 10
await action Of the Grand Jury. Both
defendants pleaded not guilty and waived
examination before Magistrate whitney
The warrants on which Metcalf. EN-
ployed as gardener at the Cooper home.
and Nora Jones, a negress employed as
cook there, were arrested were sworn
out by Gabriel Hansen, so-cared
psysho-analytical detective OF Memphis
who has been here several days working
on the case.
sheriff, served the warrants at the
Cooper home this morning both vigor-
ously protested their innocence.
Mrs. Cooper said that she knows
don't know anything about this murder"
Nora Jones asserted as she was led
away.
Metcalf appeared angry at his arrest
for on Thursday he had been questioned
by the police department and released
by that branch of the constabulary as
not having knowledge Of the crime.
81 am innocent and have told all that I
know. 1 canno. tell more even IL they
kill me. If they try to to kill me trying to
make me tell more then blood stains Will
be on their hands and not on mine." he
said
Metcalf Comes From New York.
According to Metcalfs statement he
has been a wanderer. living in many
places. He said he was born in London,
N. Y, and his family moved to Franklin
vile, N. Y, where he farmed for six
years.
When sharply questioned as to the ac-
tivities in the Cooper home during the
last week of the young lawyers life,
Metcalf said that "they held some high
old times out here" referring to Coopers
activities with his male companions In the
absence of his wife. Nearly every morn
ing he'd have to take a lot of whiskey
bottles from the rooms-they'd been
drinking and playing cards"
Nora Jones made a clear and con-
nected statement when question. She
said:
81 came to the Cooper home about
eight weeks ago, taking the place Of Mr..
Metcalrs wife. who left the next day.
L
stairs; Mr.. Cooper came UP at about
s:s0 and kissed his children good night,
as he always did. He did not seem Pc
culiar.
Later, when he went outside in an
swer to the call at the door. heard a
man say to him, is there a car herer
And Mr.. Cooper's voice answered back,
Yes, there's one here
when Mr.. Cooper did not return home
that night had stayed In my room on
the second floor from Q until o'clock
the next morning. didn't call the po-
lice. because I didn't think It was any of
my business.
Mr.. Cooper was a man who didn't
like for people to interfere in his bust
ness. He never spoke to US servants
except to say, I am ready for my break
fast-like that-or to give orders He
was frequently out and didn't think
It unusual that he didn't return; he was
man who did as he pleased"
Detective Tells of Vision.
Hansen. the psyche analytical detec-
tive, asserted In a statement to the local
police that Gin q demonstration which
bordered on the spirltualistic" he had
seen Metcalf kill Cooper"
But he backed up his startling state
rnents of viewing the crime in the spirit
world by these concrete circumstance
which he has learned of in Nashville
during the last week:
Shortly after Cooper's death Metcalf
rented a room in Church street. betw cen
Eighth and Ninth avenues In this room
was found crimson covered pillow slip
with the letter c embroidered In pink
also a blood stained suit OF blue clothes
There were also a number OF old
newspapers. one OF them being dated
June 6, the date on the papers found In
Cooper's automobile. which was found
abandoned in Leake avenue.
IN trunk IN one corner were a num-
Der Of letters: one OF these. from his