The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-14
TWO MEM CAUGHT
FOR ASSAULT ON
MISS HAZEL BRAY


Two Of the assaiants Of Miss Hazel
Bray are under arrest.
Walter Patton, alias Paddy Mack"
the second Of the quartet who were
without the pale of the law, was can
tured at l:l0 o'clock Thursday after
noon, in a coal shed in the rear of 667
Bethel place.
John Rogers, alias "Sleepy John, .
was captured at an early hour THURS
DAY morning by Deputy Sheriffs Ed,
bradiey and M. w, Palmer, after they
II, Perry.
Detective chlsf-Hulet smithsaocomp.
anied by Detectives Walter Hoyle and
Charley Peters, captured Paddy Mack. ="
Paddy Mack" told a reporter at 40
Thursday afternoon that he had been
10 the city ever since the attack on
Miss Bray, week ago Sunday. He
refused to state where he had been In
hiding
Paddy Mack" named -the men who
were In the automobile at the time Miss
Bray leaped out at Seventh and Vollen-
tine, He denies there was any attack
on her, or that he had any part in any
attack. But the men Paddy Mack"
named as having been In the machine
We're the names of four men under In
dictment, They are:
Elmer Wells alias Little Red" John
Rogers alias Sleepy john" Benny
South and Walter Patton alias PADDY
Mack y Wells was on Main street In
Memphis on Wednesday
Patton did not hesitate to name him
self as one of the men who was In the
car, In his own defense, however, he
claimed that he saw no abuse heaped
on Miss Bray.
Eugene Martinelli the fifth man in
Ua u,,ht ~ hn
question by the reporter.
WAS Eugene Martinelli in the ma
chine at the time Miss Bray was picked
up?" the reported asked aPtton
"Martinelli was not in the car any
more than you were" was the answer
=. Were you in the city al the time
the police have been hunting your
was the next question.
Yes replied Paddy Mack"
Where we're your he was asked,
He only smiled, I'm not in position
to say" he replied
Speedy John Rogers was arrested
early Thursday morning by Deputies
Bradley and Palmer, at Parkway and
Illinois Central railroad The informa-
tlon came to Sheriff Perry In way
that he will not divulge.
Perry Immediately announced his in
tention OF contributing the $l25 reward
offered for the capture OF each Of the
bandits to the men who caught the
second Of the quartet not yet under ar
rest This entities Hoyle, Peters and
Chief Smith to $3.50.
Wells was bold enough TO talk to n
traffic policeman at Main street and
Madison avenue Wednesday. The
traffic officer gave a brilliant display
of police work, when Ne let Little Red"
talk him into the belief that he was
not the man wanted. Little Red" told
the cop that the indictment returned
was against his brother And the con
let him get away with the story, and
walk away free
Benpie South was seen Wednesday
Afternoon at LAO o'clock, riding north
on Second street In Cadillac car. He
rode past the house of Miss Hazel
Bray, S32 North Second street, and was
seen and recognized by Mrs. Betty
Reeves, mother of Miss Bray. The
mother at once reported the fact that
South was in the city to the detective
department
Detectives Griffin and Dixon cranked
a police flivver and started on South's
trail. But the speed OF South's car
was so much superior to that OF the
dilapidsted cop Ford that the sleuths
never caught eight of South,
Both the men who were seen here
Wednesday are under Indictment for
assault to murder and for attempted
criminal assault.
Eugene Martinelli was arrested by
the police soon after the affair oc-
CURED and was handed over, indicted
and released on bond charged with be-
ing one Of the party. However, the
police do kaet think that he was In the
car. His previous reputation and sim
ilarity to Red" Wells are generally
supposed to have caused suspicion to
attach to him.
Rogers told Perry that South, Wells
and Patton were IN the car
Pat Mack" Is the name on a secret
indictment returned several weeks ago
by the Shelby county grand jury Grim
inal assault Ia the charge alleged, Au
thoritles say that Walter Patton, alias
Paddy Mack Is the man wanted, and
the man meant In the indictment
Thus II is the life Of Paddy Mack
may be forfeit to the state Of Tennes-
see, for crime alleged to have been
committed In Riverside park prior to
the assault on the little Bray girl
Authorities have kent quiet the In
dictment against Pat Mack In the
hope OF picking up Paddy Mack"
Deputy Palmer issued the warrant on
him at the police station Thursday aft
ernoonA
The crime with which Mack Is yac-
cused, the most revolving on the cs1en-
dar, End one which In times past has
brought summary justice to negroes
accused OF II, is one Of the most re-
voting that ever has come to the at
tention of the attorney general Of Shell
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