Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-05

Miss Normand should leave the
apartment followed, and in the
midst of it, without warning, Dimes
said the chauffeur drew a pistol
and fire three shots, one bullet p1erc-
ing Dimes chest and another graz
ing his ear.
Wounded Man Despondent
at suppose I'll kick the bucket
this time" the wounded man OBJ
served sadly, although surgeons had
pronounced his condition far from
hopeless.
''The girls will miss me. They'll
be lonesome without me. We three,
Edna. Mabel and l. were just the
best pals in the world.
He refused to confirm, however,
the report that he and Miss Purvl-
ance were engaged.
Early today surgeons at the Good
Samaritan hospital described Dimes
condition as very satisfactory and
said he was on the way to recovery.
Miss PurViance described the scene
in Dimes apartment before the ar
rival of Greer an dthe pistol as an
informal gathering of three good
friends on a new years afternoon.
''Tnere was not great deal TO
drink" she added, ''and none of us
drank very much. I know Mabel
was not intoxicated, and neither was
[, and neither was Mr., Dimes.
when he said he must dress for
dinner, stepped into the room just
wounded Dimes belonged to her, Miss
Normand admitted.
cit was given to me to shoot bot
ties with she said. 81 used it all
the time for shooting bottles, but
only on location. I can't imagine
how he got hold Of it.
The actress was reminded that
Greet had told the police he knew
where she kept the pistol in her bed
room and had taken it from there
just before leaving for Dimes apart
ment, to bring her home, through a
desire to protect her from danger.
"Well, what business has the man
got in my bedroom, anyway she
exclaimed. How should he De so
familiar with my room as to know
where to go to get anything? He
has been there only twice. Once to
fix my curler and once to fix an
electric plug of some kind
Greer's story of having run up
stairs to get the pistol after being
told that Dimes would not permit
him to take Miss Normand home
certainly was fabricated, the actress
declared.
Mrs. Edith Burns, her companion.
agreed with her and suggested that
Greer must have taken the pistol
while taking the doo-dads off the
Christmas tree and carrying them
up stairs early in the afternoon.
Greer drove her to Dimes apart
ment about 2:30 o'clock that after
noon, Miss Normand continued, and
left her there without seeing Dimes.
When he returned about o'clock,
she said, Miss Purviance was in the
bedroom, and 81 went into the room
where Edna was"
Thought it Firecrackers
"She had on her evening gown,
but it wasn't hooked up. L didn't
want this chauffeur see her dress
unlocked. SO L went to her and
said, Say, where is your powder
puff?' Then all of a sudden, 1 heard
these terrible things. I thought they
were f;recrackers. That's what L
thought they were-firecrackers
They were popping all over the
house."
She ran into the living room, she
asserted, and found Dimes lying
wounded on the floor. Greer said,
I'm going to give myself up to the
police" and left.
Miss Normand said she could
think Of no motive for her chauf-
feur's attack on Dimes, and ridi-
culed the theory that Greer was in
fatuated with her.
Impossible, she declared. "The
man must have been insane. He
treated like one. 1 never talked to
him, like L have to my servants in
the past. [ used to ask my chauf-
feurs. the ones before this one, how
they liked a certain scene or some
thing like that-but I got tired of
all that. l didn't even hire Greer
My secretary did that"
But in the city Jail, Greer, alias
Joe Kelly, chung to his self-defense
story and spoke of his employer as
a poor little kid" who couldn't
say no to an invitation to a party"
and who on that account must be
protected against evil associates and
the dangers of over indulgence
even if he had to do the protecting.
CHAUFFEUR is FUGITIVE
POLICE RECORDS SHOW
OAKLAND, Cal. Jan. 3.-Records
of the bureau of Identification of the
Oakland police department reveal
that Horace Greer, who gave his oc-
cupation as a chauffeur, is wanted by
the department as a fugitive from
Justice. The records show that
Greer escaped after he had served Is
days Of a Today sentence for petty
larceny. theft of pair of shoes.
MABEL INNOCENT IN TAYLOR
KILLING, WO0LWINE SAYS
PARIS, Jan. 3.-Thomas Lee Wool
wine, former district attorney, OF
Los Angeles, today gave Mabel Nor
mand clean bill of health" as far
as the William Desmond Taylor muir
der mystery is concerned.
Miss Normand was the last person
known to have seen Taylor alive.
''The William Desmond Taylor
murder today is to me as great
mystery as the day it occurred"
Woolwine said. II personally ex-
amined Mabel Normand for many
hours when We were investigating
the Taylor case and after the mos
exhaustive checking up and verifi
cation of her statements, it was tbs
unanimous opinion that she had no
guilty knowledge of the crime"
Noolwine is in Paris recovering
from internal hemorrha ges which
nearly resulted fatally. When he has
recuperated sufficiently he will so