Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-24
THREE ARRESTED
AS ACCOMPL|CES
IN BANDIT CASE
Police Charge Conspirators
Met Slayer After Tragedy
Advising Him on Flight and
Disposal of Ring

There were two major develop.
ments Thursday in the man-hunt for
the bandit who, last Thursday after
noon, robbed the Nat Kaiser jewelry
store on Peachtree street, killed Irby
C. Walker, a Pinkerton detective
guarding the store, and severely
wounded City Comptroller 3. Ora
ham West, who attempted to inter-
cept the escaping desperate.
| /. Governor Hardwick offered an
additional $500 reward for the cap
ture and conviction of the bandit
killer, bringing the total rewards to
| $3.50.
2. The police charged that Jack
Worth and George A. Wiley, young
men arrested Wednesday night, were
implicated in a conspiracy to aid in
the escape of the bandit and in dis
| posing of the stolen diamond ring.
Both men are held without bond at
police headquarters.
C. r. Buckley, the taxicab driver
who carried the bandit, supposed to
be Frank 3. DuPre, to Chattanooga,
made a statement to detectives work
ing on the case, in which he is said
to have implicated Worth and Wiley
lice now are searching. Buckley is
said to have talked freely to the city
detectives, and several of his state
ments were said to have been cor
roborated or checked by them, one in
particular being that Wiley had
called a taxicab that afternoon \ to
meet Buckley and DuPre at West
Peachtree and Tenth streets. 1t was
alleged that Wiley went there. to
complete a bargain for the diamond.
but the others did not show up. Ac-
cording to Buckley they had decided
OF go to Chattanooga to dispose OF
the ring.
The man sought by the police in
the alleged conspiracy, is said to
have called the Chattanooga pawn
broker by long distance telephone
and arranged to pawn the hot" dia-
mond for $685. with the understand
ing that the bandit should be paid
only $495, the remaining $l0O perng
held by the pawnbroker to be PAID
over to the Atlanta man as Zee
for arranging the deal.
WILEY is a broker, with offices in
the Peters building, while Worth is
NOT known to have any regular en-
ployment, although until the past
l NOA1A@OOS~N-
a local restaurant. The police are
looking for a third man, who, it is
alleged, participated in the plan to
get the bandit out of Atlanta and
dispose of the $1,000 diamond ring
taken from the Kaiser store.
The arrests of Worth and Wiley
were made, according to the police,
following the apprehension of c. X.
| Buckley. the taxicab driver who car
! ried to Chattanooga the man believed
to have committed the daring day
light hold-up and killing. Buckley
is a prisoner in the Fulton coun-
ty Jail. indicted as an accessory after
the fact.
The story Of what happened imme.
diately after the robbery and MUIR
der as told by the police and in con-
sequence Of which the arrests OF
Worth and Wiley were made, runs
thus: a
/ Details of Alleged Plot
When the bandit fled from the
Kaiser store, after snatching the dia-
mond and killing Detective Walker,
who grappled with him at the door,
he ran, down toward the Kimball
House entrance on Peachtree street,
shot down City Comptroller West,
who tried to intercept him, and ran
through the lobby of the hotel into
a haberdashery store on the Wall
street side of the building. There he
purchased a necktie. t.
He then walked down Pryor street
| to Alabama, across to Broad street
and UP to the Child's hotel near the
viaduct. He checked out and Sc
cured his suitcase. Somewhere along
81 1n
the pair walked up to the corner OF
Forsyth and Poplar streets, where
they encountered Buckley.
Worth had bought an extra edi-
ton Of one Of the afternoon papers
carrying an account of the hold-up
and killing This he showed to Buck
ley, remarking that, Here is the
man who pulled this job" and de-
claring that the bandit had the dia-
mond, which he wished to dispose OF
at once. Buckley at first demurred.
but after being promised $25, agreed
to help get the. bandit out OF town
and get rid of the diamond.
/ At this point Wiley was commu-
| nicated with and the trio met him by
appointments He was offered the
ring, but on hearing the circum-
stances under which it had been OBJ
! tanned, declined to handle it. How
| ever, he recommended another man.
who, he said, would probably make
an offer for the stone. This man
was then sought out and the ring
offered to him, but he would make
only a small offer for the diamond.
suggesting, however, the name of
pawnbroker in Chattanooga who
might pay more than any broker
in Atlanta for a "hot" stone.
Then it was that the automobile
trip to Chattanooga was arranged,
Buckley agreeing to. carry the bandit
there for a cash consideration above
the regular taXicab fare.
Attorney Sees Worth
Buckley and his passenger left
Atlanta between 5 and 6 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, arriving in
Chattanooga about o'clock the
next morning. There Buckley was
paid the taXicab fare and his bonus,'
the bandit pawned the ring for $495
and bought a ticket to Norfolk, Va,
leaving Chattanooga shortly before
noon Friday. -
This is the theory of the detec-
tives, constructed as the result OF
Investigations following the arrest
of Buckley and his indictment by
the Fulton county grand jury.
Worth and Wiley are being held
incommunicado at police headquar-
tiers, but in some manner WORTH got
message to Attorney Len B. Gull
lebeau late Wednesday night anu
| the latter visited him in his cell,
remaining aoout half an hour. The
attorney declared Thursday that he
and his client were both in ignOr-
ance as to the charge on which
Worth had been arrested.
Meanwhile the search continues
unabated for Frank E. DuPre, sus-
pectcd by the authorities as the man