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Tuesday April 29th 1913
J. W. Phillips Thinks Couple Who Asked for Room May Have Been Gantt and Girl.

Was the young woman who in company with a young man applied to John W. Phillips keeper of a rooming house at Forsyth and Hunter Streets at about 11 oclock Saturday night for a room Mary Phagan the little girl who was found murdered the following morning? And was Gantt the man with her?

Phillips was not positive today.

He saw the young woman in the morgue at Bloomfields undertaking establishment and it is understood he positively identified her to city detectives and the County Solicitor. She looked very much like the young woman he said but he would not make the positive statement to a reporter today.

He went to the police station this morning to see Gantt and declared the prisoner looked much like the man who applied to him for a room.
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00:00Keeper of rooming house enters case Atlanta, Georgian, Tuesday, April 29th, 1913.
00:05J.W. Phillips thinks couple who asked for room may have been Gant and girl.
00:09Was the young woman who, in company with a young man, applied to John W. Phillips,
00:13keeper of a rooming house at Forsyth and Hunter Streets at about 11 o'clock Saturday night for a room,
00:19Mary Fagan, the little girl who was found murdered the following morning?
00:23And was Gant the man with her?
00:25Phillips was not positive today.
00:26He saw the young woman in the morgue at Bloomfield's undertaking establishment,
00:31and it is understood he positively identified her to city detectives and the county solicitor.
00:36She looked very much like the young woman, he said,
00:39but he would not make the positive statement to a reporter today.
00:42He went to the police station this morning to see Gant and declared the prisoner looked much like the man
00:47who applied to him for a room.
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