Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-08
TAX|CAB DRIVER IS
HELD IN CONNECTION
WITH DORSEY KILLING
/, |, Davis Taken in Custody
BY Police as Material Wit
pess-StiII Searching for
Woman

J. L. Davis, taxicab driver, nine
cen wears of age, Of 81 Broyles
Street. was arrested Saturday night
By Detectives Whitley and Powers
and Is being held as material Wit
hess in the Charlie Dorsy murder
mystery.
sis arrest was pending all through
he afternoon. A new witness had
thrown new light on the subject.
"Cherchez la femme"-flnd the
Woman! An old French proverb had
Become the working basis of the
bolice after the new witness mao
testified. He gave startling evil
hence about a woman. 1t was
bart of the search for this wom-
kn-the arrest of J.. L. Davis.
The tip came to the police that
here was a woman in the case,
Eoman who had ridden often In
charlie Dorsey's car, and with whom
dorsey had quarrelled Saturday,
|wo days before his murder. In the
uarrel, the new witness had heard
Ter say:
Charlie, you'll regret this"
Then Monday came. and the new
itness asserts positively that j. l..
Davis quarrelled with Dorsey. No
ody heard what they. quarreled
bout-but when they drew apart,
Pavis, according to the witness,
aid:
iii get you for this, Charlie"
Davis Claims innocence
At police headquarters, Davis de-
led that he knew anything what
yer Of the crime. He also denied
positively, that he had quarrelled
it'll Dorsey. Beyond that he would
bake no staten mt.
Police think that the woman is
be key to the mystery. Following
pc evidence which was received,
living unmistakable signs of the
resence of a girl, somewhere in the
Rngle, the search for the woman
egan.
And so, throughout Saturday aft
Enoon and late Saturday night, girl
fter girl and woman after woman
as summoned to the office of So
citor General John A. Boykin at
FILLED by the solicitor, his aides and
ty detectives and by E. C. Bryant,
orsey's employer.
The last woman left, and Solicitor
oykin said that the particular
IF we can find the girl" said So
citor Boykin, I'VE will be nearer a
button than at any time during the
vestigation."
And all through Saturday night
lere were certain women being
atched - their every movement
re- -
tip as to the possible identity of
be searched-for woman. The po-
ce laid traps, and waited.
We got our tip" said the solicit
n, from responsible witness
tnnot give his name, but he has
ZEN Dorsey and the girl We are
ter on several different sions
lring the past two or three weeks,
Ter circumstances so suspicious
Pat we are convinced they might
I've led up to the murder"
Police Cooperation
The county and city authorities
70 working hand in hand in an eff
rt to solve what has become one
the most puzzling crimes in the
story of Atlanta and Fulton. coun-
And with them are a band of
be hundred or more volunteer de-
ctives-the taxicab drivers of At
MIA who have sworn to ferret out
Z slayer of their hrother driver,
e Of the most popular and highly
garded of their number.
Nearly week has elapsed since
orsey's death. and during that
Fne the progress of the inVestiga-
pm has been baffled at every turn
apparent lack of motive and
lack of clues.
AIRED to have had no enemies, was
st seen alive by his friends on
onday night. when he left the
ryant taxicab stand at the Ansley
tel in answer to call for a
ven-passenger touring car at "159
ennwood avenue-corner of Chero-
The call was in a mans voice,
d no particular driver was speci-
I'd. although it is possible. in the
Pinion of the officers, that the
Rn who called knew Dorsey would
the next driver to go out.
There is no 159 Cherokee fact
Gnich baked the murder investiga-
gPn from the first, and eforts to
ii have been fruitless
Only one person has come forward
10 saw Dorsey pick up his Dassen-
Dwight Wilson. a student at
Tech High school. saw the big
wn Packard draw up at Cherokee
e Glenwood about 7:15. heard a
hn cry "Taxi?" and another man
swer. "yes"; and then saw a young
hn step from the shadows and get
20 the car. Wilson has identified
lrsey's car as the one he saw at
corner.
What happened to Dorsey after
at. thus far is an impenetrable
ystery. Attaches of the Federal
son and a woman living out on
nth Boulevard. heard two pistol
OTIS between $3.50 and 9 o'clock.
e woman says she heard a wom-
s screams. Passengers in auto
obiles on South Boulevard between
and 0to'clock. say they saw the
ckard standing on the side of the
hd. with lights burning and ap-
rent1y no occupants.
H m