Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-14

my place in search for the missing
man. L showed the party the way
down the road which Kelloy ana
TreX.er took when l last saw them
together.
Find Trexler's Body
cit was 2 o'clock Saturday morn
ing" said Mr.. Doe, before he found
TreXler's body. With the aid of
flashlights we came upon it in ditch
running through cluster of heavy
woods about a mile and half off the
Dixie highway. The body had been
thrown from the automobile and had
been dragged for approximately sew
enty-fve feet into swampy place
just off the road. We found a pool O.
the automobile had stopped, and IL
trail where the body was dragged
led the searchers to the ditch where
it was found"
Mr.. Doe said the dead mans pock-
cts had been rif1ed, and that his let
ters, personal papers and several
kilograms were scattered around him.
After TreXler had been disposed
Of" said Mr. Doe, 'Kelloy drove the
car for half a mile farther down the
Damascus road, and in attempting
to turn the cal around in the front
yard of @. A. Waldrop, a Well-knoWn
armer, had backed the car into the
porch of Mr.. Waldrop's home, doing it
some damage A young nephew of
NJ Waldrops finally turned the ma
chine around for him, Kelloy explain
ing that he was accustomed to driv-
his first trip in that car, having drlV-
e. two negroes rom Atlanta to
point on the Damascus road"
When told that Kelloy, in his Ma
con statement, had connected her
name with that of TreXler, Mrs.
W of about
twenty-four years, asserted with en-
phasis that she did not know Trexler
and had never heard of him. She
branded her husbands statement as
Mrs. Kelley was not at her Pine
street residence, but was located
some distance away, where she ad-
mitted she was hiding through fear
of her husband. He tore my cloth
ing from me Friday morning." she
the house, and threatened to kill
me-"
Wife Tells of Threats
She said she had been forced to
take out a peace warrant for her
husband, and that he was released
from custody under bond.
Fl, He told me-, she continued,
lice, and that he could kill me and
quently under the Influence of
whiskey, and early Friday morn
Mrs. kelley told of her marriage
less than year ago, and declared
that she had since lived in constant
fear of her husband. She said she
finally reached the point where she
could stand it no longer, and left
him two weeks ago.
Statement RidiCuIsd
The Atlanta man whom Kelloy
sought to implicate in the murder OF
young TreXler, ridiculed Kelloy's
statement that he made the trip to
fact that he had not left the city
Friday or Saturday, but had been
at his place of business during his
usual hours.
the Hudson Taxi company's office
in the Winecoff hotel at II o'clock
Friday morning, asking to hire an
to take him to Savannah,
where he said he was going to pur-
chase several hundred hogs.
The automobile, with TreXler .drlV-
ing, left Atlanta shortly before noon
At $3.50 o'clock Friday afternoon, the
caxicab company received long DIS
lance call, presumably from kelloy
at Griffin, to the effect that every
thing is all, right, and we Will con-
tinue on to Savannah ;,
Within thirty minutes another call
was received from Orchard Hill,
small town south of Griffin. advising
that the automobile in which the Two
men had been travelling had been
disabled and left in care of q. n.
Swint, a merchant at that place.
His sus picions aroused, Ropeft Eu-
banks, manager of the Hudson TAXI
company, left Immediately for Grimm.
taking with him L. H. Norman, OF
his company. They found TreXler
and KelIoy missing and the machine
abandoned with a broken axle seven
miles south of Griffin.
Car Axle Broken
It developed that kelloy had peell
arrested by Spalding county police at
$3.50 Friday afternoon, charged with
snceding. He was released when he
posted a bond of $50. T.
At the point south of Griffin Where
the axle was broken, Kelloy was
picked up by Hartford Green, of Ieb-
ulon, Ca, a well-llnown travelling
salesman, and carried as far as Mil
ner, Ca, where he is said to have
for Macon. Kelloy is said to have
told Mr.. Green that he was on the
way to Macon to attend a wedding:
This occurred at $50 Friday after
Mr.. Green told of Kelloy's efforts
to lure him from the main road
with promises of a drink of good
whisky" Mr.. Green said he decl1n-
ed to accept the invitation, and said
Kelloy'S peculiar actions and nervous
demeanor were particularly notice
able.
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