Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-28
DENIES KNOWLEDGE
Of DORSEY KILLING

carl M. Rowe, traVel1ng duLOlnO~
bile mechanic, who Saturday was
lodged in the Fulton county tower
charged with the murder of Charles
Dorsey, a young taxicab driver. on
March 1, vehemently denied any
knowledge of the crime when ques-
toned by officers and newspaper men
in his cell.
His attorney, Len B. Gillebeau,
was present at the time.
ST saw Dorsey once, when he was
pointed out to me-" said Rowe. 8!
don't know anything about him, and
had nothing whatever against him.
I am innocent
Rowe was arrested Saturday morn
ing at his room in the Princeton
hotel. Plennie Miner, special inves-
tigator for Solicitor Boykin, told
newspaper men that he had gotten
his new lead" from former as
sociate of Dorsey-who was en-
pany at the same time the slain man
was employed there. This man, it
is said, told the Officers that Rowe
had come to him and his friends on
several occasions and asked them to
break up Friendship" which he
said existed between his wife and
Dorsey. According to the informant,
it is alleged, Rowe claimed that Dor
sey was with Mrs. Rowe frequently.
The Dorsey murder mystery has
baffled the county and city police
for the past four months. Numer-
Dus threads have been picked up,
and carefully traced, only to end
in a blank wall-and no solution to
the mystery.
On the night of March 1 call
came into the Bryant Taxicab COM
pany's office, asking that car be
sent to an address on Cherokee ave-
hue. Dorsey was dispatched on the
call. Witnesses said they saw him
pick up his fare" at Cherokee and
Glenwood avenues-that they caught
fleeting glimpse of the mans face
as he stepped into Dorsey's car.
Many Arrests
The next morning Dorsey was
automobile. The Windshield was
broken. There was bullet wound
through Dorsey's jaws and another
through his throat.
On the front seat beside the body
of the dead boy was the print of
which has developed.
Many persons were arrested. Girls
and women by the dozens were grill
ed by the solicitor on the theory
tragedy.
Mr.. Miner and other investigators
had given up hope, almost, of ever
finding the guilty man, when not
long ago one of Dorsey's old friends,
= papy, came to him and related the
story which resulted in the arrest
of Rowe Saturday.
This man, it is stated. said that
Rowe knew Dorsey, and had spoken
sey's alleged affair with his (Rowe's)
wife, asking them to do something to
break it up. Mr.. Miner says he is in
formed that on one occasion Rowe dis
covered his wife in Decatur in COM
pany with a man, that he had beateh
her, and forced her to come back te
Atlanta with him. Whether this
stranger was Dorsey is not known.
At any rate, the investigators be-
lieved that they had accumulated suf-
They found him at the Princeton no
tel. His wife, he said. was in Co.
lumbus, Ga.
"Rowe told u.s." said Mr.. Miner,
chat he was in Columbus on the
night of the Dorsey murder, visit
We were told by Mr.. anG Mrs. Rog-
ers that this was not so, that they
were in Atlanta on the night Of the
murder, and the day following, and
out to the scene of the murder the
next day and pointed out the spot
TO them. The register at the Prince
ton hotel shows that Mr.. and Mrs.
Rogers were here then. The fact that
Rowe lied increased our suspicious"
Hearing Tuesday
Mr.. Miner said that Rowe lied
when he told them he could not fire
pistol, and neved had pair OF
shoes with rubber heels. Mr.. Miner
said he has learned that Rowe is a
good shot, and in his room at the
Princeton they found a pair OF shoes
with rubber heels.
"We have the dimensions of the
footprint found in the seat beside
Dorseys body, and We are planning
to compare them with. the. shoes
found in Rowes ROOM" said Mr..
Miner.
Mrs. Rowe is in Columbus. and
will be questioned. although is is
contrary to the laws of Georgia for
wife to testify in court against her
husband.
Rowe is 27 years old and has been
married four years.
Through his attorney. he made the
following statement:
Cup until last January or Febru-
ary 1 lived with my wife in De-
catur: L travel around the state
fixing cars. My wife went to Co
Iumbus in January or February. and
l was going between Atlanta and
Columbus so frequently that I don't
remember where 1 was the night
Dorsey was killed. I Just don't re-
member, that's all.
my wife and [ have quarreled at
times, but we have never been sepa-
rated. 1 was never Jealous of Dor
sew, never saw him but once when
he was pointed out to me on the
street So far as know Mrs. Rowe
did not know Dorsey"
The preliminary hearing for Rowe
is set for Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock before Judge Hathcock in the