Evening star., 1924-07-19
LOVE MOTIF FOUND !
IN M|X-UP Of BOYS
Queer Tangie in Georgia
Complicated Because of
Love for Dead Lads Sister.
By Consolidated Press.

ATLANTA. July 19.-The role
played by Woody" Hinton. the rum
away schoolboy who reached Bogart
Ga, Thursday just after his double
mad been buried in the little ceme-
terry there beside Hinton's mother. is
not the strangest thing about this
case of mistaken identity.
The love story back of all the mix
up which caused the mutilated body
Oh Coils Harris, another run-awa!
youth, to be buried in the Hinton
FAMILY plot, is the phase of the case
that outdoes fiction.
third schoolboy, Hora, ,e Single
tarE, knew that the crushed body
taken from beneath the wheels of y
ram at Cartersrille, Ga. was that
oi harris and not that of Woody"
flhton. but he would not come
clean with the truth because he was
IN love with Harris sister and feared
IHe would blame him for the boys
death: Lying in hospital at Car
t"rsFliie. badly injured by the train
.nat Killed Harris, Singletary clung
10 ms story that he did not know the
name of the boy who died beneath
the wheels OF the train
"hA.uP r ouhOs
One of the queerest cases of mis-
taken identity Georgia has ever
known goes back to two runaway epi-
sodes. Woody" Hinton. aged Is. and
Cliitord Echois. aged IA, ran away
from their homes in Atlanta above six
weeks ago. Some time later Horace
Singletary and Coils Harris left home
IN another part OF the State Neither
pair of boys knew about the other
two.
While Horace Singletary and Col
us harris were on their way to Ken
tucky they We're run over by train
at Cartersville. According to the en-
aineer, the, two boys seem to have
gone TO sleep on the track. He says
lie thought they were pieces of pa
per. Harris was killed Instantly.
Sinsletary WAS badly injured. At the
simply chance uaintance and
that he did not know his name
Meantime Mrs. w. II. Hinton of At
lanta, stepmother of Woody" Hinton
heard OF the unidentified boy killed at
Cartersville. She went there, saw
was her StepSon.
Points Of Identity.
Woody" Hinton had a scar at the
left OF the center of his forehead. "A
similar scar was found on the fore
head OF the dead boy. A gold tooth
was next identified. then an Army
shirt with certain initials on it, and
finally an "Admiral' watch. In all
these details the dead boy tailed with
Woody" Hinton.
Mrs. Hinton telephuned her husband
and he went to Cartersville, confirmed
her Identification, and the remains
were taken to Bosart, Ga, where they
were buried. AS the family was pre-
pairing to board a train to return to
Atlanta, Woody" Hinton appeared
He explained that after running away
from home he went to Richmond.
then returned to Georgia. and was at
the home of an aunt. Mrs. n l.. Ham
ilton. in Smithsonia, Ga, at the time
he was being identified as the dead
boy in CsLrtersville.
Following the funeral, Horace Sin
sletary. in the hospital at Carters-
Vile. confessed that it was Coils
Harris who was killed by the train
that almost crushed out his own life.
He said he had concealed this fact
before because he thought a lot of
Coils Harris sister. Ethel" and that
he didn't want her to blame him for
''toIling her brother off and letting
him get killed"
Wv Woody" Hinton. at his fathers
home in Atlanta, said:
Il don't quite understand it all. I
was with my aunt and was feeling
very well. l hadn't seen any papers.
because they don't get them at her
home, and | didn't know l was sup
posed to be dead