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H A RAY OF HOPEH. 8. PERRY’S STATEMENT RECEIVES CONFEMATIONGiven to the Effect That Lanier Told Him He Had Assaulted Mrs. Perry and Feared Her Husband.ood-s of lafts hot with tx)lio lank imal tame i, re-) old B Ut-and afest irenfcnody iroes? have mys-ease, jaiwB leter enow liable f uuvItonly It tin. 11 theleroic■oajji trees y no This hards t has Waufc •rkcausethey is asot be ibtain ilDe-lill dth ve or-d will com-The I thewillmoda-ith3 com-nnm-acon*Shelby•minion the L ownand of thenation he cifc-CAUfW B TROUT’S AFFIDAVITAndHabeAtlanta. Q» , Aug. 5 — H. S. Perry now nnder sentence of death for the murder of Baly Lanier, may yet get a new trial.It all comes abont from a letter written to Perry recently by IV, H. Trout, who knew Lanier and Perry well.In hia letter to Perry, Tront stated that he had promised Lanier never to tell ibont the conversation, bnt that it seemed that Perry was wrongfully punished and he thonght be was doing right in telling what Lanier told him. Lanier’e statement to Trout is told fully the affidavit that he has made. Trout a man whose reliability will bs testified to by many well known cit'zine of both Atlanta and Jaokion connty from where be moved to this oity. Tront and Lanier were intimate frlerds. The following is the affidavit:THE AFFIDAVIT.“In person before me comes W. H. Tront, who being duly sworn, says:“He waa intimately acquainted and a confidential friend of Bely Lanier, in Fnlton oonnty, Ga., up to the time of the killing ot said Linier by H. S. Perry, at Deoatur, Ga. On Saturday night before said killing deponent was coming op Decatur street, in Atlanta, Ga., and met said Lanier at the corner of Decatur and Ivy streeta at abont 8 o'clock at night. Linier called deponent to one side and aiked deponent if he had a pistol. ' Deponent told him 'no,’ and asked what was the mstter, Linier stid he was expecting Perry, the man he was boarding with, to be after him at any time, as he had received a note from Perry ordering him to leave the city. Deponent aiked him what Perry was after him about.' ‘Lanier replied that he was afraid it was abont Perry’s wife. Deponent aiked him if he had been getting too close to Perry’s wife. Lanier replied that he had, bnt that he had to by foies. Lanier stopped at this point in the conversation and made deponent promise not to mention what :he was saying to any one, as he was going to come ont of it all right, aa he had already had two men before this to ohaie him with guns abont their wives, and he waa still living and had not left the oonntry either. Deponent promised that he would say nothing about it.W1BE GOOD FRIENDS.“Lanier then said that he and Mr». Ferry had been good friends, end be decided that he wonld have his way with her, and went to the house Friday evening and began to work his plan end it did not work; that as he had commenced be went on, and did what he wanted anyway; that the was terribly scared and was abont to holler, and he had to ohoks her; that he made her promise not to tell her hnsbsnd, and tcld her if she did be (Lanier) would kill her end her hatband both. Lanier farther told deponent that he then told lira Perry that her husband was staying with a woman on Collini street, and he said he (Lanier) did not believe she had told or would tell whit he did; that he was going to the lower store and watch out for Perry; that ha did not want to hart Perry unless hs could get Mr. and Mrs. Perry together, then he wonld do them both op.EVIDENCE IS NEW.* 'Deponent did not diaoloee to said Perry or his oonnsei, Ao any one, any of the fsota abont the above stated conversation, or that he had a conversation with Lanier opon said subjects,or koew anything which might benefit itid Perry, nntil June 30;h, 1897, when he wrote to said Perry a letter in whioh stated the fsota abont said ooversatlon In the month of Marob, 1397, he left Georgia and went to Florida. His home was In Atlanta, where he had the above oonversation with Lanier. He promisd not to tell abont it, ’and for a long time did not, and wonld not have done bnt for the fact that be felt he should no longer with-hold information whioh might be of benefit to a man who had been found guilty ot snrder.“ Deponent is willing to appear as witness in DtKtlb superior eonrt testify to;.above fsoti, and any others within his knowledge, whenever pretence mty be required thereupon, opportunity being given him to obtain leave of absence for that purpose, which leave he believes wonld readily granted nnder the clroamstances.”Joh was athe cl TwFranland*the at bugg;TinseverovercThtiednotiflKellionlpibooseAhim' that iMearticltho p was iNECProp,Weppobeennitioobtaitheirton,AfulThe]atamvoteallo\ in titilaci;histo at U]hasoralselvioffioGIETheStnalgootSOU)witl oft: he i fille tag!TDuftroiKirthefluepertStiflcLatQaipie'pie:antbutBe:COBto
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Athens Weekly Banner
Athens, Georgia, US
Fri, Aug 06, 1897
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