The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1942-10-02
Dolan Given Preliminary Hearing
Here Wednesday And Is Bound Over
To Grand Jury Under $4,000 Bond
Germon-Educofed Chemist Held For
Grand Jury Under $4,000 Bond:
Witnesses Heord AT Local Session

assault and attempted murder IN
connection with the nocturnal :
tack on Mf and Mrs Terrell Hei
delbe1g and believed b police to
be the Phantom Barber was
bound over 10 the grand jury Il
= preliminary hearing before
Justice Of the Peace Kate Denny
Wednesday Bond was sei 81
So Oa0.
The preliminary hearing Was
SET II the request Of II A. kruae.
attorney for DoIan, and the pfis
onef who has been held IN IRE
jackson. Miss jail. was brought
t.ere 70 appear IN the courtroom
] GLOWING tire hearing. the 81
year old chemist who was edu
Gated ~ Harvard University Mas
sachasetts Institute 81 Technology
and the University Of Heidelberg
IN Germany. wss placed In the
Jackson County jail here when ne
failed TO make bond His wife,
VINO has been held here on
charges Of obstruciing Justice.
WAS also returned to the local
Jail.
Testimony was taken under
oath 81 circumstances surround
ing the entrance Of the Heidelberg
home in the early morning hours
of June Is and me brutal beat
ing Of the sleeping couple win
an iron bar Doian was 8rre
&c and charged with tins attack
shortly after lis Occurrences ana
on Investigation Of the case 8
dence was uncovered which
clearly pointed 10 the man as the
Phantom Barber who kept this
toWn Of some 1900 inhabitants
in . state Of near panic Tor about
three weeks with MS hair cutting
raids on three small girls Charges.
however. were flied only in con
necti0n with the attack
Driver Of Truck Testifies
Prosecuting attorney s r. {.
Cowan district attorney. assisted
by v D Ballard county prose
cutting attorney.
a principal witness at the hear
ing vas William Atwood whose
signed statement Of events &C
curing on the night Of the attack
had furnished considerable ground
for the arrest Atwood refused
70 be shaken IN any detail Of his
story despite insistent questioning
BY the defense attorney.
Atwood testified that on the
night Of the attack Dolan had
asked him TO drive his Doians
truck while be kept a date with
a married woman Atwood as
serted that Dolan reminded nm
Of past fsvoTs in order to persuade
nm 70 agree and that eventually
he did drive Dolan IN the truck
70 3 point AZ the edge Of the
woods about . mile from the Hei
deiberg home L was AZ TINS
point that the b~loodhounds. which
we're called after the attack ws
discovered lost the traH Of the
man who hsd entered the Heidel-
berg residence
According 10 Atwood. Dolan
had left the truck ard started
through the woods and had tod
MIN % remain n the truck ard be
ready % leave IN . hurry in case
there Was any trouble About
ar hour later DaIan rad come
running back and Jumped into
the truck and instructed Atwood
50 Set away quick
Atwood Eeen Returning Home
r. subztantistlon Of ms les
nmunY. m Frances Danisx.
N-ho lived n 8 tent On Peihams
Point near the Dolan shack. e.
tilted that Stout 8 a. M sae ana
ner husband had heard g truck Re
turning 10 fhe PORT and looking
cut she hao seen AtWaad wa1k-
ing beck p MS home Her has
band Tom Uanles. testified that
he he'd heard the truck Dat lad
not Fzsen = look OH and 50 had
not seen Dalan q Atwood
Judge = p HedeiherE city
Judge toak the stand = reizla
hos he has fined Dolan 500 f5r
n~asaassine after the ma had
been arrested b police officials
on HHHIHuaa property 3 zHaH tire
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