Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-19

outside, but instead of going out and
getting into one picked up the tele-
phone and tried to call the Spider
Taxicab company. was so nervous
I couldn't get the number, SO I hung
up"
Tells How He Met Betty
He told today how he came to
meet Betty Andrews, former chorus
girl with the "Chu Chin Chow" com
pany to whom he wired $40 from
Norfolk at the risk of being cap
tured. He entered the parlor at
the Childs' hotel one evening and
found her playing an old love song
that he liked. He didn't know her,
but he stopped to say how much he
ike the way she played. Six days
later he was taking a chance on
the hangman'S moose in order to get
$40 through to her from Norfolk.
At this crisis, two women played
a contradictory part in his expert
ence. The telegram sent to Betty
Andrews fell into the hands Of the
police and almost caused his cap
! ture. A reply was sent as a decoy
| to Norfolk. and detectives were in
structed to watch the telegraph
office and arrest the man who called
for his bogus message.
DuPree was about to walk into
this trap when, according to his own
| statements since cOrrbOrated by
| the police, girl in the office whom
he had never before seen whispered
into his ear to watch out, that de-
f0o i,o,r ~
almost put the MOOSE iaround his
neck; another threw it Off
Chief Hackett's Story
Chief w. S Hackett. of the Chat
tanooga police force, who has been
| in Detroit for the last few days
told me how DuPree VS. captured
| When DuPree reached Chattanooga
the morning after the robbery Of
| the Kaiser JeWelry store, he went to
the Star Loan office, owned by Max
Silvermar and his son, Abe Silver
man, and pawned the ring he had
stolen The Wnbroker offered to
buy the ring for $500, but DuPree,
| for some unknown reason, refused to
sell. He would do no more thar
pawn the ring, and accepted 1928 as
a loan on it. 1t was understood that
later, if he cared to sell, the differ
ence would be sent to him by Silver
man.
DuPree left that same day for Nor
folk, risked his life there by tele-
graphing and writing for Betty An
drews, spent all his spart time going
to moving picture shows. He told
me he would go to three or four II
a day-then; with his money fast
dwindIing, bought a ticket for De.
troit. There, with the situation OF
practically nc money and no job FAC
ing him, he wrote to Silverman that
he would sell the ring and would be
glad to receive the additional money
that would then be due him. He
signed himself as F. B. Parker, of
Knoxville, and gave his address as
general delivery.
Blunder After BIunder
Silverman took this letter to Chief
Hackett and the latter wired the
police in Detroit to watch the gen.
eral delivery window at the post
warning in this letter that DuPree
was a dangerous gunman and must
be dealt with carefully. Sergeants
William J. Collins and Paul Wencel
were assigned to the job and had
been on duty scarcely two hours at
the postoffice when DuPree ap-
peared.
"He had one hand in his pocket"
Sergeant Collins told me, today,
land I though he might have q gun
there grabbed him by the wrists
and we frisked him for the gun, but
his pockets We're empty. He was
unarmed. He came along with us,
as meek as a lamb"
In talking about DuPree, Chief
Hackett said:
Everything the boy did was a
blunder 1t is a miracle he wasn't
captured i'll Norfolk, ard even if
he hadn't written back to Chatta-
nooga, he would have been rounded
up sooner or later in Detroit. He
certainly doesn't fall into the class
of smart criminals