The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-31
ENTREK|N DENIES
IMPLICATION WITH
TUML|N. WHIPPING
Says He Can Prove Where
aboutS on Date OF Assault.
States Relatives Have No
Desire for Remarriage

Denial that he or his nephew had
any part in the flogging of w. E.
Tumlin, Birminghanl~ lawyer, by a
band of masked men on Red noun
tain several night ago. is contained
in statement issued yesterday by
I. E. Entrekin, brother of Mrs. Ella
Louise Tumlin, divorced wife of the
attorney
In statements in regard to the al
fair made after the whipping, Tumlin
said that the members of the bano
who whipped him demanded that ne
remarry his divorced wife by next
Sunday or he would be killed he
declared that he recognized the voices
of some of the band as belonging to
relatives of his wife.
In his statement Entrekin says that
he and his nephew are the only rela-
tives of Mrs. Tumlin residing in Biz
minKham and that neither of them
was present in the band of men who
whipped Tumlin and that both can
prove that they were elsewhere at
the time of the floggiug.
He also denies that either he or
any other of Mrs. Tumlin's relatives
desire her remarriage TO Tumifn and
says the only thing they want is for
him to support her and their children
until the divorce proceedings have
been disposed of In the courts.
EntreISin's Statement
Following is his statement:
ITO the editor of The Age Herald;
81 wish to make, further and final
statement for myself and relatives
of Tumlins wife that have been con-
nected with the flogging through inn
plication in Tumlins statements in
The Birmingham Age-HeraId yester-
day and this morning.
II can prove my whereabouts as
we'll as that of my nephew, who are
the only relatives of Tumlin's wife In
Birmingham, so far as ] know, ev-
cry minute of the day Tuesday, Tues
day night and Wednesday, during
which time the flogging took place.
I knew nothing of the affair until
someone called my attention to 1t in
The Age Herald Wednesday morning
While 1 am familiar with action
taken by the Humane society and
others in a legal way, 7 know moth
ing OF feeling among the good peo-
pie of the Community being aroused
To q punt VI sum dNttOitf WhiShb Atpti
all accounts, filled the prescription
entirely in his case.
Il have no other interest in the
matter than the welfare of the wife
and children whom TumIin must sup
port to the extent of his ability If
legal action can force him to do so.
LAS to the claim that I or any of
his wife,s relatives desire them to
remarry is farce and concoction,
the only thing her relatives want is
for him to support the wife he mar
ried and has borne him seven chill
dren and is now in feeble health and
a mental wreck. The divorce is a con-
coction of his own design and his
wife and her relatives do not recog :
nize same because it was not obtained
legally, and also designed to give him
absolute freedom to remarry, which
privilege is not extended to the wife
whom he lived with until three week
ago and then lured her away to her
people in Georgia to verify his claim
OF abandonment effective in June,
1919. and make his freedom sure aft
err December 10. 1921.
$50 far as I am personally con.
cerned the whole affair of divorce
is legal question to be settled by
the courts who are handling my part
of II and ] do not contemplate other
than legal handling OF the matter,
but want the people of Birmingham
to know that I had no connection in
any way with the flogging Tumlin
got and have no desire now and have
never had any desire for the marriage
or remarriage, but in as much as they
were legally married he must support
his wife and children under the law
until such time he is legally d.
vorced. Yours very truly.
II. C. INTREKIN."
Birmingham. December 80, 1921"