Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-07
NECRESS TELLS
OF Wade KILLING
New Affidavit Filed In
Behalf OF Pardon
Applications

A new affidavit, supporting the
contention Of the defense that the
late Walter Wade was slain in a
house on Jackson street, Americas,
and not in a buggy on. road out
fran Americas, and that q woman
and not DR.. c. K. Chapman and War
rem /. Johnson, Of Americas, did the
deed, has just been flied with The
Georgia Prison Commission, which IS
considering the application Of the
two men for pardon. The Atlanta
correspondent of the Macon Tele;
graph furnishes the following re-
port Concerning the new affidavit:
Gan entirely new and material
witness has just been found in the
Walter Wade murder case, in which
there is pending an application for
pardon for Dr.. Charles K. Chapman
and Warren /. Johnson, both Of
whom are serving Il life sentence for
the murder Of Wade.
"a new affidavit has been fled
by counsel in the Johnson petition
to which the especial attention Of the
Prison Commission has ben request
ed, as supporting afiidayits' already
field to show that Wade was not kill
ed in his automobile as was adduccd
from The testimony on trial Of the
case, but was murdered il the home
of Lois Reeves, on Jackson, in Am
circus.
"The state, on the trial of the IA
nous case, set up evidence to prove
that young Wade, in an automobile
with w. /. Johnson, Dr.. c. K. Chap
man and Mrs Yertie Howell, was
shot TO death in that automobile, his
body transferred to another ear and
taken to the river, where it was
thrown in. On that evidence, Chap
man and Johnson were convicted.
In filing applications for Glenn
cncy for both these men, counsel OF
fcred to the Prison Commission af-
fidavits tending to show that Walter
Wade was killed in the house opcr3t-
ed by Lois Reeves, by . a woman in
mate known as Billie Brown Now
there is filed with the Prison Com
mission by counsel for Johnson, an
entirely new affidavit, in support Of
those others which comes from a
negro woman by the name of Pearl
Black, who lived Immediately behind
the Lois Reeves house, and who
was laundress for the women in
mates.
an it she swears she heard two
pistol shots in the Reeves house the
night Wade was killed, heard a crowd
Of men and women come from that
house, through the back door, and
g Id 4,,I-
down and carried away her clothes
line. Pearl Best, one of the women
inmates, came to the door of the
negro woman's house, borrowed a
bar of washing soap, and told Pearl
Black, the negress, she wanted to
scrub with it, that they killed hell
out of Walter Wade and went off
to drown his body.
'The following morning she, the
negress, went into the Reeves house
and saw several OF the inmates
securing the floor of one of the
rooms but they wouldn't let her in
She talked, however, with negro
man named ShelIman Johnson, who
| told her they were securing up Wal
! ter Wado's blood.
IAN additional affidavit is filed II
the case from a professional nurse
connected with the Americas hospital
who swears that, in conversation
with B. B. Hawkins, who was a pa.
tient in the hospital, Hawkins told
her Wade was killed down on Jack,
son street in a house, and the wo
men left Americas that night This
he said, would be the truth which
would finally come out
"Neither of the two applications
for clemency has yet been passed up
on by the Prison Commission, both
cases being under adYisement.n