Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-25
Probe by Coroner's Jury of
= Fatal Rocking In" Party
Involves Thirteen Defend
ants in All

Carlos B. Stanley, Of West End
avenue, who died Monday morning
from fractured skull as the result
Of being rocked in" at McCalls
! crossing, Sunday night, came to his
death at the hands of Preston
Heard, Flournoy Mann, Charlie
Cook, Duren Farlow, Alvin Peck,
Bert Baisden, Lamar Cover, Frank
King and Clifford Fair, according
to the verdict of coroner's jury re-
turned Tuesday afternoon, at 4:40
o'clock. The boys were ordered held
to the Fulton county grand jury for
investigation on a charge Of involun-
tary manslaughter.
The jury ordered nine Of the young
defendants held on a charge Of man
slaughter. Bond was fixed at $1,000,
which all provided. All of the nine
are more than fifteen years old. Four
boys, less than fifteen, were ordered
turned.over to the Juvenile court.
The jury also ordered Dallas Dor
man, Cecil Brooks, Fisher Maurney,
J. w. Maxwell and Gilbert White,
five younger boys, who are alleged
to have been implicated in the af-
fair, held to the juvenile court for
investigation on a charge of con-
spiracy in the commission of the act.
A feature of the Inquest was the
testimony of Patrolman r. G. Evans,
who told how he helped r ound up
the boys Monday morning after be-
ing informed of the rocking by
young Stanley's mohter.
He stated that the following six
boys admitted to him, when arrest
ed, that they were members of the
party and threw some rocks" Bert
Baisden, Charlie Copk, Frank King,
Preston Heard, Flournoy Mann and
Duren Farlow.
Gilbert White, thirteen wears old.
224 Stewart avenue. under arrest in
connection with the death Of young
Stanley, was one of the principal
witnesses at the inquest.
Young White named thirteen boys
as having been in the crowd Sunday
night-Preston Heard, Flournoy
Mann, Charlie Cook, Duren Farlow,
Alvin Peck, Bert Baisden, Lamar
Cover, Frank King. Clifford Fair.
Dallas Dorman, Cecil Brooks, Fisher
Maurney and J. w. Maxwell. The
last four, and himself, young White
said, were told to Ego on home" by
the larger boys, who told them they
were "too young"
Four other young boys, Dorman,
Brooks, Maurney and Maxwell, took
the stand and gave substantially the
same testimony as young White.
They all stated that the thirteen
boys named by White took part in
the party.
DR.. J. H. Thompson, of the Lee
Street pharmacy, testified that
about 10 o'clock Sunday night young
Stanley and his friend Pulliam came
into the drug store, Stanley bleeding
at the nose. and exhibiting a bruise
over the left ear. He told of being
'rocked in" and wanted first aid
treatm ent, which was given by Dr.,
Thompson, and both boys went OF,
home. go
The coroner's jury, at the outset,
viewed the body Of the dead boy
and questioned Mrs. Albert Stanley,
his mother. She told how Carlos
came home Sunday night, related
the story Of the rocking in" and
after having poultices put on his
head, went off to bed. About 20
minutes afterward, she said. he ap-
peared to be in a dazed condition
and rapidly grew worse, developing
commissions from which he died six
hours later.
DR.. George H. Noble, Jr., county
physician, testified as an expert wit
ness, declaring that young Stanley
died of a fractured skull.
Thirteen boys, arrested in connec-
ton with the attack on young Stan
ley, were on hand at the inquest,
accompanied by their counsel Attor-
neys William Schley Howard, H. A.