Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-01
WARRANT CHARGES
HUSBAND s MURDER
TO MRS. W.W. EVANS
Former PoIiCeWoman Is AC-
cused in Mysterious Death
of Member of Atlanta Po-
lice Department


in the Dekalb county Jail at De
catur, a prisoner awaiting a hear
ing on a warrant charging that
she murdered her husband, w. w.
ments were temporarily at a stand
still Friday morning in the mJ's-
FERROUS shooting Wednesday night
| of Evans in the dining room OF MS
| own home, 40 South Mayson' ave
nue., Edgewood. Indications were
that nothing further would be done
until Monday, when the DeKalb
county grand jury will organize at
| Decatur.
Marion and Martha Evans, the
| two little daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Evans, learned Thursday night that
their father was dead. They were in
the care of Mrs. N. E. Harris. sister
of Mrs. Evans, She had to tell
them, she said.
But L told them nothing, of
course, of the circumstances, she
| said. "They think their mother is
grieving somewhere beside their
fathers body"
The little sisters, age five and
eight years, respectively, were taken
to the country Friday morning by
their uncle, Lovett Cobb, brother of
Mrs. Evans. They have not seen
! their mother since the tragedy.
| First intentions were to take them
I by the Jail at Decatur, but this plan
was set aside, because the children
| then would have suspected ! the
truth. Instead, they were taken by
Mr.. Cobb directly to his home, which
is IN the country, near Charleston.
Wife in Dekalb Jail
Mrs. Evans was taken to the De-
Kalb county Jail Thursday night
Immediately after adjournment of
the coroner's inquest, held from &
tin o'clock at the Evans home,
AZ South Mayson avenue, Edge
wood. The verdict of the coroner's
jury, returned within Is minutes
after the last witness was heard. |
was that Evans met his death from /
gunshot wounds, and recommended
that Mrs. Evans be held pending
further investigation. The warrant, |
charging her with murder, had been |
issued some hours earlier in De |
catur, having been sworn out by w. |
+. Evans, brother of the de-
ceased officer.
Deputy sheriffs Of DeKalb county
were subpoenaing witnesses Friday
Tor the grand jury investigation on
Monday, while Ben w. Tye, retained
by Mrs, Evans as her attorney, was
engaged in an effort to arrange bond
fer his client.
Sheriff j. A. McCurdy, of DeKalb
county. stated he would see Judge
John 8. Hutchinson, of the Stone
Mountain circuit, later in the day
and endeaVor to arrange permission
for Mrs. Evans to attend her hus.
bands funeral.
The funeral will be held Sunday
morning at II o'clockI with services
and interment at Wesley chapel
about Is miles from Atlanta on the
Covington road, in the DeKalb coun-
ty neighborhood where Evans was
born and reared. Arrangements for
the funeral are in the hands of Mrs.
Evans, it v-0s stated at the office Of
Harry G. Poole, the under; l1~r il
charge. It's postponcment until Sun.
day morning from the hour orig
inally announced was directed by
her, it was stated From her cell in
the Jail at Decatur, MrsA Evans
spent Friday mornin notifying
friends of the funeral plans, rela-
tiyes who were there with her do
ing the telephoning at her request.
Very little that was new or of i'm
portance was brought out at the
coroners inquest. Call Officers
Howard and Fincher, who, after
neighbors, were first to arrive We'd
nesday night after the tragedy, at
tempted to reconstruct the dining
room as nearly as possible like it
was when they entered, with the
chair in which Evans was seated,
wounded and unconscious, just where
it had stood. with wilted flowers IN
a glass container on the table be-
side the nearly-empty whisky bottle,
a glass with some water, and Evans
tie, his pistol: Evans collar on the
floor, and various other articles as
they remembered finding them.
Sit in Death Chair /
Each witness occupied in turn the
chair in which Evans had been
found, the entire proceeding of the
coroners jury being held in the din
ing room.
Mrs. Evans arrived at her home in
charge of Chief Of PoliceN Beavers
and accompanied by her sister, Mrs.
N. E. Harris. On entering she per.
ceived the hat of her deceased hus-
band, and picking it up, began fond
ling, it, kissing it several times, and
holding it for several minutes. She
was seated in chair directly across
the room from the one in which
Evans had met his death. She wept
awhile, then became hysterical, and
eventually had to be escorted out Of
the room and into her bedroom,
where she reclined on her bed. She
remained there through the remain
der Of the inquest until she was call
ed to the stand.
AS she seated herself, to testify,
in the chair where Evans had been
sitting when wounded, Mrs. Evans
was composed; but a photographers
flashlight exploded at that instant,
and she demonstrated with him.
saying: Il don't think you ought to
have done that. They've done moth
ing but photograph me all day"
Mrs. Evans Talks Calmly.
Mrs. Evans testified calmly. In
the main her story rehearsed details
she hao told The Journal earlier in
he day.
Or. w. s. Ansley, coroner's ply
sician, already had stated, after eX-
amining Evans body, that he be-
lieved either of the two bullet
wounds in the head would have pro
duced instant paralysis, each having
cut a nerve center.
Mrs. Evans denied the testimony
Of a previous witness, saying there |
had been no argument or fuss be- |
fore the shooting, with the eXcep- |!
ten of some jocular remarks re- !
garding a picture that had been |