Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-14
MRS. BULLARD, OUT
UNDER BOND, GOES
To FATHERS HOME
SimSon Edwards, Also
Charged With Assault With
Intent to Murder BuIIardl
Makes Bond Thursday

MARIETTA, Ga, July lH.-MrS'
y w. D. EullarJ, Jr., of near Powder
. Springs, charged with assault with
: intent to murder in connection with
the shooting of her husband as he
Sept at his home Monday night, was
released on bond of $4,000 Wednes.
= day night, her bondsmen Being her
father, B. A. Burnett, DR.. J. S.
Baughn, J. B. Oglesby and J. NJ
Baggett. Her father took her to his
home in Cedarvale.
Simeon Edwards, a neighbor of the
Billiards, also charged with assault
with intent to murder. was released
Thursday morning on $4,000 bond.
Both Mrs. Billiard and Edwards,
who are charged by Billiard with
having plotted his death, waived pre-
liminary hearing, and their case will
be investigated by the Cobb county
grand jury next week. If they are
will be tried at the term of court
converting the following week. Both
stautly deny any part in the shoot
ing. Mrs. Billiard says that she saw
a man run out Of the room following
the attack on her husband, and Ed
wards claims that he was in Atlanta
at the time the assault took place.
Billiard is in a sanitarium here re-
covering from his wounds. Both of
his hands are shot almost to pieces
and his scalp IS badly torn. Although
he is expected to be out in few
days. it is feared that lie will lose
at least one of his hands.
Mrs. Billiard Released
Mrs. Billiard, released on bond of
$4,000 on a charge Of assault with
intent to murder, was taken from
- The Cobb county jail by her father,
s>oilY immt lila tcly' to his home n
Cedarvale. She was haggard and
worn from weeping, bordering on
hysteria. "I spent the most miser-
able time of my life in there" she
said, weeping afresh. On the adj
: wee of her lawyer, Fred Morris, she
would say little concerning the ac-
susation against her, although she
continued to state that she did not
know who shot her husband.
told them a man came in by the
window and left by the back door,
That is all I know about it."
Judge Newt Morris, counsel for
Simeon Edwards, is confident that
a complete alibi can be established
for Edwards, who claims that ne
was in Atlanta the night OF the
shooting, having taken truckload
Of vegetables there in order to be
early at the curb market the follow
ing morning. He has a brother IN
Atlanta and says that 1t was ms
custom to spend the night with his
brother whenever he took vegetables
to Atlanta so that he could be on
J hand with the earliest at the curp
market the following day.
He says that he made such trip
Monday night, the night Billiard was
shot, and that he had bought some
notatoes from Billiards. father to
sell at the curb market. He declares
that he knew nothing Of the shoot
ing until informed the following day
NV his brother that the sheriff or
Cobb county was looking for him.
He then went back with his broth-
er and surrendered voluntarily, he
saws, a statement that Sheriff Swan
son corroborates. Edwards will try
tn establish O. clear alibi when in
vestigation of the matter is taken
up by the grand jury next week.
Thought Billiard Best Friend
He stoutly denies any compliciyt
.in the murder, saying that he was
on friendly terms with both Billiard
and his wife, considering Billiard
. one OF the best friends he had. He
had a friendly chat with him at the
home of Billiards. father Sunday
night, he said. All three of them
went tn school together, he recalled
later attending the Seventh District
Agricultural college together.
Friends and relatives who visited
Edwards at the Jail and Billiard in
the sanitarium said that the three
= families involved, the Billiards, the
) Burnets and the Edwardses, were
among the best known in the coun-
ty, the Billiard and Edwards fanli
lies being also among the wealth.
lest in the community.
Billiard, who is still somewhat
dazed from the narrow escape from
death he had Monday night, told of
his experiences as he sat up in bed
at the sanitarium. when [ awoke
from sleep, L felt a terrific pain"
he said, land saw my wife running
through the room. [ ran over to
nv fathers place, which is the next
farm, and after that do not know
what happened. This much is sure
the shotgun was fired at close
range, and the only thing that pre-
vented my head being blown off was
the fact that 1 was sleeping with
both hands around my head, hold
ing the pillow between"
The Gun
Billiard is said to have told the
sheriff that the gun with which he
kwas shot had been hid in the milk
,<rhouse, only he and Edwards know
ing where it was. He had borrowed
it of Edwards in order to shoot some
crows. He sought to return it to
+ Edwards when he was passing one
day, but Edwards had put it in the
loft instead. He said that the gun
was found in the dining room after
the shooting.
Billiard was asked if he wished to
see his wife after he had heard she
was released. He would not repIv
but it was said that he had told the
sheriff earlier in the day that he
did not think it wise for him to see
her in his condition. She was said
to have expressed a willingness to
see him. Billiard continues positive
that either Edwards or his wife
shot him, and he says that he will
prosecute them to the limit of the
law.
Billiards. hands are in bad condi