Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-20
LONG MAN-HUNT CONTINUES
FOR FIVE POINTS BANDIT


convinced that the bandit who staged
the sensational Peachtree hold-up last
Thursday afternoon, killing Irby G.
Walker, a Pinkerton detective, and
woundin5 City Comptroller Graham
West, is the same man who raided
two other jewelry stores in Atlanta
within the past few weeks, securing
valuable diamonds in broad daylight
by the simple -hod Of selling the
stones and darling out the front
door.
While the authorities were bend
ing every effort to apprehend the
bandit in one of three cities where it
is thought he may be hiding, they
were also busy securing positive
identification of a, photograph
which was found in local roeming
house where resided the man now
believed to be the bandit.
The search is now directed toward
the capture of Frank B. DuPre,
twenty-one years old, formerly Of
Birmingham, Ala, and Charleston,
S. c., but who for the past several
months has lived in Atlanta.
A photograph of DuPre has been
identified, the police say, by en-
ployes Of four jewelry stores in At
lanta as the picture of the man who
made daylight raids on their estab-
lishments, or made an unsuccessful
attempt.
c. E. Dodson, clerk at the Timms
Jewelry company, on South Broad
street. declared Monday, upon ex-
aiming the photograph of DuPre,
that he was the man who entered
the store on October II last seized
a SLOTS diamond ring which was
being shown to him, and fled out the
door, making a clean getaway.
Raymond Tooke, clerk employed
by Wis & Freeman, jewelers., told
the police that the picture was that
Of the man who, on December a.
staged similar robbery at 1 Da.
Wis & Freeman store. He got away
with a diamond ring valued at $3.50.
M. l.. Ullman, who took especial
note Of the bandit when he made his
raid on the Nat Kaiser store Thurs
day afternoon, also positively ,iden.
titled the photograph as that Of the
man who staged the hold-up and
murder, so the police declare.
Buckley Identities Picture
According to Chief Of Detectives
A. Lamar Poole, the photograph of
DuPre has also been identified by G..
r. Buckley, the taxicab driver who
on Thursday night carried mystic.
rious passenger to Chattanooga,
Tenn, as the picture Of his passen-
ger. Buckley is being held at police
! headquarters without bond as ma
| terial witness.
B. J. Black, clerk at Childs' hotel.
on Monday declared the photograph
| to be that of the man who regis
tered as r. B. DuPre, who stopped
at the hotel for two days and checked
out Thursday noon.
Another interesting sidelight on
| the situation was supplied by MIR.
| a jewelry store at II Peachtree
| street, just north of the viaduct.
| When shown the DuPre photograph,
| they declared it to be that of the
man who early in December entered
| their store and asked to be shown
some diamond rings. Mr.. Scheer was
suspicious of the stranger and in
view of the previous jewel-snatching
| episodes, attempted to detain the
man, telling one Of the clerks to call
| police headquarters. The stranger
| overheard the call to police head.
quarters and made a hasty exit.
| dirt Track" Kelly, an automobile
racing driver and mechaniGan, who
had been sought by the police in con-
nection with the robbery and muir.
| der, has been definitely relieved of
suspicion. He appeared at police
| headquarters Saturday night and
proved to the satisfaction Of the aus
thorities that he was not the ham
dit. Clerks from the Nat Kaiserstore
| also declared that Kelly was not the
man wanted. He was completely cx-
onerated.
Although DuPree was last heard
of. in Norfolk, Va, the police are
watching for his appearance in two
other cities. He Is known to have
| sent a telegram from Norfolk on
Saturday, requesting G. r. Buck
ley, the taxicab driver who drove
him to Chattanooga, Tenn, on
| Thursday night, to communicate
with certain Atlanta girl and send
her to meet him in Norfolk. Du-
Pree also wired $40 to pay her rail-
road fare, according to the police.
Woman Is Questioned
The young woman, whose name
the police refuse to disclose, has
been closely questioned regarding
the case. She is said to declare
she had known DuPree about week
| prior to the robbery and killing, but
that he acted presumptuously in
asking her to meet him in Norfolk.
She also denies all knowledge Of the
hol6ur.
The police declare that DuPree in
! said to have met a woman during
his brief stay in Chattanooga, and
to have urged her to leave her hus-
band and family to go with him.
Revised Description
The corrected description Of Du-
Pre-, as given out Monday by Clref
! Beavers, declares him to be atm.tit
| five feet ten inches tall; between
| twenty-one and twenty-five years
old; sallow complexion; noticeable
defect in left eye; one upper tooth
partly filled with gold and slightly
out of place; weight about 145
pounds; when in conversation, moves
his shoulders upward in an unusual
gesture; shoulders ordinarily slight
ly dropping.
Investigation at Chattanooga has
developed that Buckley's passenger,
who the police are convinced was
the bandit, left Chattanooga for Nor
folk on Friday morning. They learn
ed from a pawn broker that the man
in question was waiting at the