Thursday, 20th November 1913: Nation-wide Search For Missing Wife, The Atlanta Constitution

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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.

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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.