Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-26
''EYESOF UNKNOWN
LETTER IS SENT To
THOMAS ATTORNEY

With the statement that he has
found the missing fourth man" In
the Lakewood cutting mystery
Plennie Miner, special investigator
for the solicitor generals office, de-
clared Friday that the mystery will
be probed fully next week by the
grand jury. Mr. Miner further de-
clared that the fourth man" has
given evidence which will solve all
details of the mystery.
j. H. Leavitt, attorney for J. c.
Thomas, charged with the murder OF
Fred G. Thompson on lonely road
near Lakewood in a cutting affray
growth of a secret orders attempt
to punish him, has received a threat
ening letter of the same sort sent
to Thomas before the cutting affair.
Mr.. Leavitt said the letter reached
him through the United States mail
He exhibited the letter and the en-
velope to a reporter for The Journal.
This was the letter, typewriter
in black ink on sheet of plain
white paper:
~. H. Leavitt, Atty
Hurt Bl
City
TAKE WARNING AND KEEP
OUT OF THIS AFFAIR
EYES OF THE UNKNOWN"
This is the same signature that
was appended to one of the letters
received by Thomas and to a letter
received by another man, whose
name is in The Journals possession,
last June. 1t is the same signature
attached to letters said to have been
received by other, Atlanta men.
II know the letter came from
the same secret order which tried to
get Thomas" said Mr.. Leavitt, land
| want to say that this order, from
the information in my possession, /
know to be a menace to the communi-
ty and to the nation.
Knows Name Of Order
1.-THE information 1 have is shared
by others. 1t is, in fact, common
knowledge among some of the lead
ing citizens of the community just
what this order is, what it stands
for, and who many of it's members
are.
81 have information that the order
has marked for violence one of the
most prominent Georgians in the
state. I know-and others know
also-who this Georgian is and who
"Of course I shall pay no atten-
tion to this letter. I am not going
to let it or anything else stop me
from doing my duty to my client. no
matter how far I have to go or who
is to be affected.
"This is not the first threat l have
received since I took Thomas case.
On the night of March is the tele-
phone in my office rang and voice
on the other end warned me to keep
away from investigating this secret
order or certain man who is now
under suspicion in connection with
the Lakewood tragedy. Before
could ask who was talking, there
came buzzing on the wire, and ]
was cut Off"
prepare Habeas Corpus
Mr.. Leavitt was preparing Thurs
day to go to court with a writ of
habeas corpus in an effort to obtain
that he was being Illegally detained
since he acted in self-defense in the
Lakewood cutting.
Another anonymous letter received
in connection with the investigation
of the Lakewood tragedy was exhib-
tied at the courthouse by an inves-
tigator of the solicitors office who
said he received it..
This investigator has been touring
Atlanta hospitals in an effort to To-
cate fifth man" who was reported
to the solicitor, in a letter received
from Gainesville, to be badly wound
ed in a hospital here.
The 1nttar tho in va St Gator said he
received was as follows:
you STAY AWAY FROM THAT
HOSPITAL.
THE EYES OF 1000 WOMEN"
While admitting that the letter
might have been written by mem
bers of some secret order, officials
were inclined to treat it as ''prac-
teal joke perpetrated by some one
who had been reading about the
case