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Fte-25cf*r.%httrs*y.;kl.T-.)k,ulkBrother, Mother and Girl-Widow Will Leave Together for Fitzgerald Ga.i.00!bs,’M.£. N. DAVIS RETICENT ON ARRIVAL IN WATERLOOer;ijt-ilkInquest Will Be Held Tomorrow Night; Coroner’s Jury Has Been Selected.JS:rs,ndIk,.E;lk.Reposing; in a handsome bronze-finish oak casket the body of Stanley C.Davis, bandit killed ibyspolica-maa., In a Waterloo store, after he had shot City Detective William Goodenbour, will ‘be removed from the mortuary where it has reposed since Thursday, the day of the Ij.' | tragedy^Tand taken to' Fitzgerald, -Ga,, where burial will be beside his father, in the family lot.Accompanying the remains will be the mother, Mrs. E. B. Davis, an older, brother, E. N. Davis, and the girl-wldow, Mrs. Retta Davis. •. Mr. Davis,- the’ older brother of the gunman, arrived in the city late last night from Fitzgerald. He met his mother shortly after 8 a. j m. in the office of the police matron, -where she had been summoned from the home of Mrs. Paul Strayed,, A short time later they went to the mortuary, where the mother for the first time looked upon the face of her dead son,■Sj . • Examination in Privacy,tic The viewing of the body was in no privacy, no one -being admitted to '.ho the funeral home, excepting thosete-@ofbeaniawjO-edbyilyoreimimediately concerned.E. N. Davis is a much largerRepFSiman than his brother, whom he re-1A on n *i a n .MdeaUnit Han tial sand citiz hom It dreg pres: ciati he i I theuncUevervariiwhiters.thatdowwheibestenco3Hfellofortfbettion cthehimmar:betwhisandcon-vforirmadoneIfSer,trueBernHouth-rerent-re-its,ru-m-ab-tilsovrIZS’6ryetheen-cm-i rrasitsIge lay reads I a fell iii-tiatoutsembles very little, and.has the appearance . of a prosperous -business man. He showed greet tenderness and consideration to bis grief stricken mother, and would not discuss the career of his orother and the-crime, which led to hig death.When seen by a Courier reporter after he had viewed the remains of Stanley, he acknowledged the greeting and said:“I have no statement to make.” Asked what plans for the disposition of. the body had be3n made, he replied:“I would'ratber not say anything whatsoeyer.’”Body Goes To Georgia.From other sources it wag learn-ed. that the . body will be removed to Fitzgerald., for burial as soon as final arrangements could be made. The casket was selected after viewing the body and everything attended to that, will permit the family to. Quietly leave the city with its deed.Inquest Tomorrow Nigiit.: An inquest over the body of Stanley C. Davie, killed by Officer William Wilson, .will be held in the office of Dr. Sidney D, Smith, coroner; tomorrow' evening. The coroner’s; jury will be composed of A. W-: Chamberlain, F. T. Bentley and Harry Rratt'. Dr. Smith stated he .was: lining- up witnesses today. These ? wi 11 be subpoenaed.F.Harifoobdecl;prorworlJng”low.busier’s in h B ceivi pelh •Mrs. cere ed t) her theadvateeirfellothis real his i incrlt; streioureverbe.”Aturerand100,0quanSaI of RP
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Tue, Jul 06, 1920
Page 5
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Charlene M.
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