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JEWELER ADAMS NOT KILLED FOR MONEY, IS STATED(Continued From Page One.)Adams is said to have been struck on ! the head with a rhair by Thad Bray, j a negro, admitted today that Bray strike the man when lie was on the gallery. She admitted, that she attempted to wash the blood off the gallery; that Bray early Friday morning shovelled up the bloody soil from the ground, .where it had caked and threw the blood stained soil under the house. The Green woman told the officials that Bray after breaking the chair over Adams’ head, picked tip a part of it and sir lick, him 'several times. She said that Adams fell on the gallery and rolled off on the ground and that he was not carried away by anyone, but left there. The worn.an said further that she and Bray fried to wash up the blood because it looked so bad.Detective Burch announced today that after carefully going over all the e vl d e n ce 1 n h a n • f at this ti m e... A dams after being struck, staggered to the place where he was found lying on his face and died there, the freezing weather hastening his death. Adams’ hands and arms were covered with, bloody imprints of a man’s Vands.Dr. Madler said today that Adams was seen to leave a Davis avenue car Thursday night, about 7 o'clock at Lafayette and Davis avenue and then to go north in the direction of the negro settlement, where he was found.The three hegrO wo'men were- before the recorder this morning and were ordered to give $100 bond to appear as witnesses In the case The j'ase against Bray was continued until February S..The negro Bray, who was sent up several years ago for a term at hard labor for an attempted murder on his father, today did not change from his first state me ill. that he struck Adams i for coming in'o the Green woman’s . house, believing him to be a tramp. | He said that he was not aware that j the man was dead until he was arrested in Toulminville during the day.He denied that when he went to workFriday morning he saw Adams' body.
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The Mobile News Item
Mobile, Alabama, US
Sat, Feb 03, 1917
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