Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-22
WOMAN IS ARRESTED
IN CONNECTION WITH
TAXI DR|VER MURDER

Miss Willie o. Johnson, twenty
three years old, an employee in the
mill of the Martel Manufacturing
company al Egan Park, was practi-
cally identified Monday as the
young woman seen engaged in con-
troversy with Charlie Dorsey, the
taxicab driver, whose mysterious
murder on the night Of February %
has for three weeks puzzled the au-
thorities and is still unexplained.
Miss Johnson and her companion,
J. B. Grove, alias George Melton,
were closely questioned by officers
from the solicitor generals depart
ment and are being held without
bond in connection with the investi-
cation.
The couple were arrested Saturday
afternoon at Hapeville by County
Policemen Wells and Hornsby, who
traced trunk sent by Grove from
Atlanta to Hapevi1le. The officers
had received "tip" that the couple
had disappeared from an Atlanta
boarding house on the day Dorsey
was shot to death on South Boule-
ward.
ut developed during the early in
vestigation of the case that Dorsey,
some days prior to his death, had
been seen on two occasions in COM
pany with young woman. On both
occasions, it was said by witnesses,
Dorsey and the woman were appar-
emily engaged in a heated contro-
versy.
On Monday, after Miss Johnson
had been taken to the office of the
solicitor general, one of the persons
who saw Dorsey and a young woman
apparently quarreling in an automo-
bile on a suburban road, was brought
in and asked to say whether Miss
Johnson was the taxicab driver
companion.
ct don't want to do you any in
Jury, little girl" said this witness,
'but you are the one l saw with
Charlie Dorsey, or else you are the
perfect image of her" ~
Miss Johnson broke down, lost all
composure and sobbed bitterly, deny
ing that she had ever ridden with
him in an automobile.
II have never ridden in a car with
any man." she declared.
Officers from the solicitor general:
department say that she admitted tt
them that she mad been married and
divorced.
Attention of the authorities was
first directed toward Miss Johnson. it
is said when they received informa-
ton from the proprietress Of an At
lanta boarding house, where the
young woman formerly resided. that
she had been heard to mention going
out in company with her friend
Charlie"
Grove and Miss Johnson have beer
living together as ''Mr. and Mrs
George Melton" at the home of Mrs
Omar Monroe, at the Martel mil
village in Egan Park. according tc
B. H. Sheffield. drayman who lives
in that community and who was en-
gagged by Grove to haul his trunk
from the station at Hapeville to the
Monroe home. 1t developed Monday
during the investigation of this phase
of the case, that the couple engaged
rooms with Mrs. Monroe on Feb.
ruary 43 and both secured employ
ment IN the Martel mill. Two weeks
later, it is said, Grove left the mill
came to Atlanta and worked as -
carpenter, while Miss Johnson re.
manned at work in the mill.
The officers say that she worked
on February %, and that the mill
closed for the day at 4:30 p. m, while
Mrs. Monroe declares the couple were
at home that night. Except for the
statement of the witness who Iden-
titled her as the woman who was
seen quarreling with Charlie Dorsey,
the officers have disclosed no other
evidence connecting her with the
slain taxicab driver.