Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-20
WOMAN CARRIED
|. ST|GALL To KILLING,
WITNESS STATES
.0ther8r on Stand for Prose-
cutor, Testify That Hanes
Was Shot While Trying to
Escape

With his attorneys bitterly contest.
ing every move of the prosecution,
Policeman E. C. Stigall sat in Fulton
superior court Wednesday, during
the second days session of his trial
for the murder of w. H. Names, a
private detective, and heard numer-
Gus states witnesses testify that he
shot Hames down as the latter was
running away from him, firing a
bullet into the stricken mans back.
At the morning session the state
used its every resource in an attempt
to prove that when Stigall met
Hames j. H. Kirk and Ernest STAN
ton, at CORTLAND and Houston
streets, on the evening of August II,
he had in his mind the deliberate
purpose of killing one or all of them.
In supporter this theory the state
put W. H. Lancaster, of Decatur, on
the stand, to testify that after the
shooting Stgall said to him:
this corner to frame me. 1 think 1
got one of them, but 1 wish to God
[ had got them all"
Mr.. LancasteTs testimony came
coded by statements from a number
Of eyeWitneSses to the effect that
SiGall had shot Hames in the back
as the latter was running away from
him and in a crouching position,
holding his hands above his head.
Death threats against the three
men, alleged to have been made by
Stigall on the morning of the day
OF the shooting, were testified to
by Ernest Stanton when he was
paced on the stand just before the
noon recess.
Il met Stigall in Cleburn avenue
Stanton declared. He accused ME
OF trying to frame him, and said he
saw me with Kirk and Hames at a
negro house in Fraser street the day
before. l admitted L was there. and
told MN L knew nothing of any eff
Tort to frame him. You are a liar
otSaII told me. The next time I see
the three of you, I am going to kill
every one of you"
Surprise Sprung
&, testimony to the effect that
Isht -halred woman drove the
closed car in which Policeman e G.
Stigall rode to CORTLAND and Hons.
ton streets just prior to the fatal
shooting of Hames, was given bv
Mrs. George Glazner, of 81 Houston
street. the first witness called at the
second days session of the Stigall
trial Wednesdays
Mrs. Glazner said She saw
closed car drive up in Houston
street and saw a man get out and
cross to where three other men
were talking on the corner. She
SAID the man who left the automo.
bile did the shooting.
The woman driver had light hair
and wore no hat" Mrs. Glazner
testified.
do you know if her name was
Dora Battey?' Solicitor Boyllin
asked.
Question Ruled Out
Judge HUMPHREYS refused to allow
the witness to answer this question
when defense counsel objected ON
the grounds that it was leading.
Mrs. Glazner testified that she
only saw the last shot fired al
though she heard the others. She
said the last shot was fired into
Mr.. Hames' back, while the other
two men were running down the
street.
DIR. O. B. Bush, of the Grady hos
pital staff, was the second witness.
He testified he examined Hame%
body and that the latter was shot
three times, once in the head, once
in the back and one bullet went en-
tirely through his body,. ranging
from the left side to the@right.
On cross-examinationS DR.. Bush
said he judged the second shot was
fired into Hames' back by the .rela-
| Ci Of bo
bullets entered and left the body,
testifying that the opening at the
front was the larger Of the two.
Widow in Tears
Solicitor BOykin asked DR.. Bush
to identify a blood-stained coat as
the garment worn by Hames when
he was brought to the hospital. AS
the garment was exhibited Mrs.
Hames, the widow Of the dead man,
wept softly.
DR.. w. =. Hancock, also of Grady
hospital staff, corroborated DR..
Bush's testimony as to the nature
and location of the three wounds.
George 7. Billings, of the. Lamar
& Rankin Drug Co., testified that
he saw the whole ARRAY from a
street car window. He swore that
Stigan killed Hames as flames was
running away from him in
crouching position, holding both
hands to his head as if to protect
himself"
Billings testified that after stigan
fired six shots as fast as he could
pull the trigger he again leveled his
revolver at Hames and snapped il
Says StigaII Reloaded
When the gun did not fire, he
said, Stigall reloaded it. AS the pis-
tOl was reloaded, he testified a
young man stepped Up to StigaI
and patted him on the back in o
congratulatory manner.
Solicitor Boykin then called J. M.
| Wallace, an automobile salesman,
into the courtroom, and Wallace
was identified as the man who pat
ted Stigall on the back.
On cross-eXaminatiOn Attorney
Howard tried to shake Billings story
that Stigall fired into Hames' back
as the latter was running away.
The witness, however, stuck to his
original statement
That StigaIl was anticipating trou-
BILE and had threatened within thirty
minutes prior to the shooting to use
his pistol was testified to by G. c.
Landlord, manager of a drug store
at 10 1atur street, only a short
distance from the scene Of the shoot
ing.
Landlord said that Stigall came
into his drug store in company with
a young man between 5 and $50
o'clock the afternoon of the shootin.
He said he heard Stigau, in a con-
versation 18th the young man. say:
These threA fellows framed up and
sent three men 20 the chair ~, Tut