Thursday, 20th November 1913: Nation-wide Search For Missing Wife, The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta Constitution,
Thursday, 20th November 1913,
PAGE 10, COLUMN 4.
A letter revealing the sorrowful story of a husbands
nation-wide search for his missing wife has come to Chief Beavers from Russell,
Iowa, to which W. W. Wolfe, a native of Montgomery went in the hope of
finding the woman.
Mrs. Wolfe disappeared from Montgomery several
months ago, the letter states. The husband, accompanied by their 4-year-old
daughter, trailed her through several northern states, losing track of her in
Iowa.
In Russell his funds were exhausted and
he was forced to go to work. Following several weeks of residence in that city
he learned through the newspapers of the case of an unknown woman who had been
taken from a train in Atlanta and carried to a local hospital in an unconscious
condition.
Wolfe investigated the case and learned
that the woman filled the description of his missing wife. He communicated with
the chief of police and was preparing to come at once to Atlanta when the woman
left the hospital in which she had been confined and again had disappeared.
Mrs. Wolfe is a woman under 30 years.
Her husband accounts for her actions by strange mental trouble which he says
she is sometimes afflicted.
PAGE 12, COLUMN 7
JIM CONLEYS
CASE WILL
COME UP AGAIN TODAY
It Is
Improbable, However,
That the Negro Will
Be Tried.
Jim Conleys case will probably be
called in Judge Ben Hills criminal branch of the superior court today.
However, from the best advices available late last night, the negro will again
be sent back to the Tower to await the decision in the Frank case now before
the supreme court and in which Conley is held as an accessory after the fact.
Judge Hill has outlined his stand in
the Conley case to court attaches and he will undoubtedly again today place the
case further along on the criminal docket, it is said, despite the pleas of
both Solicitor General Dorsey and the negros attorney, William Smith.
Attorney Smith arrived in Atlanta
late last night from Macon, where he had been attending a trial. It is
understood that despite Judge Hills wishes in the matter Smith will make an
impassioned address to the court this morning in an effort to have the court
proceed with the Conley case and dispose of it one way or another.