Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-25
BOGUS CONFESSION
OF DORSEY KILLING
ELATES ANDERSON
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his fertile imagination. His inquisi-
tors wiped the perspiration from
their brows, remarked emphatically
and disgustedly upon the fiasco
that had developed, and had Ander.
son taken back to a more or less
comfortable cell at the Jail.
He had been under a cross-fire
of questions for three hours and t.
half. He had countered every thrust
and had wiggled out of every close
corner until they fired big Bertha"
in the shape of the official Jail rec
ord of his case. Then he subsidized
like the stream from fire hose
when the water is turned off.
Anderson had planned his CAM
paign carefully. At the Dawson
county convict camp he simulated
nervousness, murmured fitfully in
his sleep and seemed burdened with
a troublous conscience. His fellow
convicts, in the hours of the night,
heard him talking in his sleep, ever
and anon repeating the name "Dor-
sey," saying something about a
murder and apparently in the throes
of a nightmare.
The other convicts began "raZz-
ing" him about his remarks in his
sleep and he showed great concern,
apparently being anxious to conceal
a dark secret: Finally, Anderson
made dash for freedom, was re-
captured and when questioned by
the Dawson county authorities, gave
them to understand that he could
solve the mystery of the Charlie
Dorsey murder.
So he was brought to Atlanta and
his sensational confession" at first
aroused intense excitement, then
profound disgust. ,
Wanted to Get Away
With plenty of time to think the
matter over in his cell at the county
trltle worried as to what would hap
escapade. His chief fear was chat
ty, and that the officials there, fail
ing to see the point of the coke"
would apply rather drastic punitive
methods. However, he was highly
elated at the idea of having put one
over" Oil the authorities.
I'm a dope and don't know moth
ing" he declared to newspaper men,
"but l pulled something that's never
been pulled before. Pretty smooth,
eh?"
What did I do it? That's easy.
/ didn't want to stay in that camp
in Dawson county; they don't treat
you any too we'll up there. Too
much leather. l was a trusty, but
I got the leather just the same. They
rap or all us boobs up there.
II figured that if 1 could frame
up a good yarn about the Dorsey
murder they would take me away
from Dawson county, but I knew
they couldn't convict me of the MUIR
der, because my record would show
was in Jail when the killing &C.
Cured. I just thought I'd take a
chance and see if 1 couldn't get
transferred to another camp or to
the state farm at Milledgeville.
THAT talking in my sleep was
a good stunt, wasn't it? Took me
long time to figure the scheme out,
but. got up peach Of story and
everybody fell for it. 1 know all
about the Dorsey case. 1t happened
while I was in Jail in Atlanta and
I read all the papers 1 could get,
and heard what the other prisoners
Sdlu dUOuL IL. OO L get lily SlOIy
down pretty pat.
Claims BeatingS
But I hope they don't take me
bacq to Dawson county. That's a
of a camp. They get you out
before daylight and work you until
after dark, rain or shine. And
they sure use the leather" .. T..
Anderson is a stockily built chap,
Of medium height, about 35 years
old, with a shock of reddish hair.
He asys he served overseas and was
gassed and shell-shocked, but his
police record does not show this.
His is the fourth alleged "solu-
ton" of the Dorsey murder case.
The other fizzled out just as this one
did. leaving the authorities just as
much in the dark as before. One of
the more recent incidents was the
trip made by Plennie Miner to the
state prison farm, to interview G.
r. Buckley, who drove the taxicab
in which Frank DuPre, the Peach
tree bandit" made his escape to
Chattanooga after killing Detective
Irby c. Walker in the daylight rob-
berry of the Kaiser jewe1ry store on
Peachtree street. Buckley had in
Dictated that he had valuable infor-
nation concerning the Dorsey case,
but his "tip" proved unfruitful of
results.
Mrs. Charles Dorsey, mother of
the murdered taxicab driver, has
recently received $4,000 as compen-
sation under the workmen's cOmpen.
sation law for the death of her son.
Her claim for compensation was up
held by the industrial commission.
but was appealed to the courts by
the insurance company indemnify
ing the taxicab drivers employer.
BY agreement, al order has been
taken settling the case for $4,000.
Anderson was taken from the Full
ton county tower late Saturday aft
ernoon presumably to the state farm
at MilledseVille. Officials of the
prison commission stated that they
knew of no order transferring An
derson from the changing to the
state farm, but it was stated at the
Jail that the officials from the Daw-
son county changing said they were
taking the prisoner to the state
farm, and that such an entry has
been made on the records at the
tower.
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