The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-26
OTHER MAN
IMPLICATED
IN CRIMES
Negro Held At Jail De-
clares His Name Is
Frank Owens
HIS TWO VICTIMS
ARE IDENTIFIED
L. M. Watkins And Rich
ard Warner In Crit
icaI Condition
ANOTHER MURDER
OVER WEEK END
N. L. Green Killed By
Negro In Card Game
Quarrel
HIS TWO VICTIMS
ARE IDENTIFIED
ANOTHER MURDER
OVER WEEK END

Frank Owens, negro, who was
arrested Saturday night, charged
with assaulting and robblng two
white men, then unidentified, but
who were declared at Hillman hos
pital Sunday to be Richard War
ner, Ala Sixteenth street, north, and
L. M. Watkins, 1912 Twenty-slxth
street, Ensley, confessed to police
Sunday to having been party to
the waylaying and robbing of the
two men, and implicated second
negro, whose name he would not
give.
The negro was thought to have been
identified earlier in the morning by a
grocerman who called at headquarters
and declared that the man was Ed
Jackson, a negro of lower Eighth ave-
nue., north. During the day, however,
the prisoner abandoned the obstinate
attitude he had maintained in the late
hours of the previous night and the
early morning and said that his name
was Frank Owens, admitting at the
same time his participation in the
| crimes.
Meanwhile, the two victims, who were
! identified Sunday, one by police and
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were in a critical condition at the Hill
man hospital. Warner had regained
consciousness Sunday afternoon, but
Watkins was still in a state of delirium.
Confesses To One Attack
Owens confessed to attacking one
man, but laid the blame for the other
on a negro who, he said, had accom-
panied him on the highway robbery ex-
fr clio In
told deputy sheriffS and police officers
who spent the greater part of Sunday
morning questioning him, he met an
other negro Saturday afternoon,
and they together planned the rob-
berries.
Nothing could be gotten from the
captured negro which would lead to
the identity of his accomplice. Later the
negro is said to have confessed knowing
other negroes who have been in
dicted for participation in axe and
alley murders in Birmingham during the
past year. He will continue to be
grilled, officials stated, in hopes of
clearing up points in some of the
past murders.
Found Near Each Other
The two victims of the AK attacks
were found by police few blocks dis
tant from each other at different times
late Saturday night and early Sunday
morning. Both of them were uncon-
scious when found, and had evidence
of having been struck on the head by
an ax-like weapon, and the pockets of
both of them were turned inside out,
completely rifled
Watkins was the first one found, be-
ing discovered in front of a negro house
at 1915 Fourth avenue, north, after the
occupant of the house, a negro woman,
had given the alarm. He had evidently
been dragged about 90 feet and left in
the front yard. He had been struck on
the head with a blunt instrument, and
all his pockets were turned out. He
was found by Detectives II. G.. Propst
and Paul Cole shortly after IL o'clock
Saturday night.
Warner was found about 40 o'clock
Sunday morning in front of negro
house at S06 Fourteenth street, with an
ugly wound on the back of his head
and a cash over the eve. He was found
by Detectives S. L. Williams and w. A.
DishrOOn, who stumbled over the body
when they were about to enter the
house of Bertha Davis, negress to ar
rest a person for forfeiture of bond.
Has Bloody AK And Money
The negro had been apprehended
about midnight by Officers Woody
Sandifer and n. c. Propst, who diseov-
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