Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-15

Poole's chapel, with 1nterment at
Greenwood cemetery; j,
to his lawyer again, and the latter
requested the witness to stand up.
Norton arose promptly, and Thomas
stood up, too. He looked over the
witness closely and seemed to be
measuring Norton's height.
Examine Norton's Car
When Norton'S automobile came
Coroner Donehoo excused the jury
and the prisoner and his attorney
and the two lawyers went out and
looked over the automobile. 1t was
a seven-passenger Buick, showing
evidence of long use. Just before
Norton was excused Mr.. Calhoul
Had you ever heard anything
about Thomas not supporting his
wife?'
mo, I never had heard anything
about Mr.. Thomas" was the reply
The next witness was W. o. Brown,
Of 8 Adair avenue, Lakewood, the
third member of the party which
found Thompson's body.
Mr.. Brown testified that he had
gone to the car line about 1879
o'clock Friday night to meet his
a lecture. In some way he had
missed Mrs. Brown and in returning
home was approached by DR.. Hancock
and Norton in the automobile.
"They told me they were looking
for a badly injured man and asked
me to go and help them," he said,
land, of course, couldn't refuse to
go on mission of that kind"
Questioned by Coroner Donehoo,
Mr.. Brown gave more detailed &C
count than either of the other wit
nesses of tho finding of the blood
traces. He was positive the blood
traces were found on the first trip
to the stretch of road where Norton
had been told the injured man was
sitting.
1--WE drove slowly along the road
from the junction of Lakewood ave-
nue. and South Pryor road about
three hundred yards to the store.
looking at both sides of the road
with a small flashlight. We were
and this perhaps, is the reason we
discovered no blood traces the first
time we went over the road.
Found Blood Pool
"At the store we turned back to-
ward the junction, and as we ape
blood on the left hand side Of the
road. This was not the large pool,
or splatter of blood, we found later.
There was not a great deal of blood
here. We took another look for the
injured man and, not finding him:
Heights"
The witness said they wanted to
communicate with the authorities
about the matter, which began to
look mysterious, and to find out, II
possible, if the injured man had
been brought to Lakewood Heights.
Finding nothing Nthere, they returned
to the stretch Of road, drove down to
the store a second time, and on re-
turning toward the junction, at last
discovered a great pool of blood
nearly in the middle Of the pave
ment. They got down and examined
it and found traces leading off the
side of the road toward the juno
ton.
'"The body was nearer the junction
than the blood was" said the wit
ness. This statement caused con-
siderable discussion among Coroner
Donehoo and members of the jury
who were under the impression, that
the testimony Of the previous wit
ness had been that the body was
farther from the junction than the
pool Of blood. Mr.. Brown appeared
quite positive on the correctness les r OF
manned with the body while the 9TH
ers went back and drove the car to
the nearest point in the road.
did the car drive up or back up
to this spot?" asked the coroner.
"It drove up; 1t didn't back up"
said the witness.
Mr.. Brown said they had to search
a considerable length Of time before
finding the body and in doing SO
they covered a good deal of ground
in it's vicinity, but saw nothing of
the revolver found there the next
morning. He was greatly shocked
found tha hNHU and
far as he observed, the revolver
might have been under it as they
picked it up. He said that the body
already was stiff and he thought the
man possibly had been dead two or
three hours.
Coroner Donehoo questioned him
closely as to the pool Of blood found
on the second trip to the road.
cit wasn't SO much a pool or
puddle as great splatter Of blood"
said the witness, Gust as might have
come from cut artery. 1t was
Heard Cries Of Murder
A. F. Copeland, of South Pryor
road, a pressman for the Atlanta
Georgian, said that last Friday
night he was off work at about SIS
and reached home about 6:45. His
home, is about 700 or 800 feet to
the right Of South Pryor road, near
Lakewood drive.
About S:45 a commotion arose on
the road, he said, there being loud
words and cries of help! help! MUIR
der!'
Mr.. Copeland said he seized his
pistol and ran out to the road. Just
before he reached the road, he said,
he saw car on the right of the
road. He said the motor started up,
the lights flashed on, and the per-
sons in the car, whom he could not
see, seemed to be trying to get
away as quickly as possible.
the car moved off toward Atlanta,
said Mr.. Copeland, he heard sounds
of a man running in the opposite d.
rection toward Lakewood drive.
Mr.. Copeland said he followed the
man, who was shouting, III find
out who you are; I'll call the hos
pital" Mr.. Copeland said he saw
him run into the home of a Mr..
Green, which is near the junction
Of South Pryor road and Lakewood
drive. He said that Mr.. Henderson
and his son, Leonard, ran up about
that time, but that they did not go
into the house where the man had
gone. In a few moments, said the
witness, the man came out Of the
house and they talked to him.
Real Tragedy in "HamIet"