00:00Paul Bowen, held in Houston, known here but left Atlanta in October, hasn't been back.
00:04Atlanta Journal, Tuesday, May 6, 1913. Page 1, Column 5. Negative alibi seems established for
00:10young man held in Texas City as suspected murderer of Mary Fagan in Atlanta police.
00:15There's a strong evidence, but nothing shows. Young man was around here. April 26. Brother in
00:22Noonan says Paul has been in Houston six weeks, out west since October. Two friends, young men in
00:27Atlanta report recent letters from him brother has had one, so has father detectives say Quinn
00:31changed his story. Newt Lee declares, murder must have occurred during the afternoon. A negative
00:37alibi established for Paul P. Bowen by several authorities, among whom are his brother and
00:41his father Noonan, seems to clear the young man arrested Monday night in Houston Tex from any
00:47suspicious connection with the murder of Mary Fagan in Atlanta on the night of April 26. Strong
00:53evidence against the man whom they have arrested and are holding, at request of the Atlanta
00:58police, as a suspect, is reported by the police of Houston in telegrams to the Atlanta police.
01:04One dispatch says they found a photograph of Mary Fagan in the young man's trunk. Another
01:09says they found there, too, a girl's vest, with blood on it. Letters from Atlanta signed Mary,
01:15and others initialed MP, or MJP, are described among other finds in the trunk. A woman's shirt,
01:22blood-stained and full of holes, was found in the alley back of the hotel where Bowen had been
01:27stopping, just before he moved to the boarding house where the police arrested him. The suspicions
01:32of a woman whose room adjoined that of Bowen in the hotel led the police to him. She saw him
01:38manifest
01:38emotion over the details of the Mary Fagan murder, the dispatch's state, and heard him moan that he
01:44wished he hadn't done it, and that if he had his life to live over he would not make the
01:48same mistake,
01:49or words to that effect. Left here last fall. Yet there remains the fact that in no ways does the
01:58journal's searching and thorough investigation connect young Bowen with Atlanta, or even with
02:03Georgia, since he left here for Arkansas last October, nor have the police and detectives found
02:08that vital connection. Friends and relatives of Bowen say that he has not been in Georgia, so far as they
02:13know since last October. Charlie Kimball of the Southern Master Mechanics Office at Inman Yards
02:18reports receiving a letter from Bowen, dated at Houston, April 23rd. The young man's father reports
02:25a postal card from him there recently. Paul's brother says he received a letter from Paul about two weeks
02:30ago. No one who knows Bowen has seen him in Atlanta or Georgia recently, as far as appears, and he
02:35is
02:36reported to have been employed for the past six weeks as a secretary, traveling with the general
02:40manager of some railroad in Texas living in Houston. In short, the Houston end of the story tends to
02:45involve young Bowen, you on more or less authority in the murder. The Atlanta end of it absolves him
02:50of any connection with it. Seems to have alibi. Either Paul P. Bowen is suspected wrongfully in Houston
02:56taxi, or the man under arrest there has assumed the name of Paul P. Bowen. It is, of course, entirely
03:02possible that Paul P. Bowen may have been in Georgia on April 26th, but it does not seem probable,
03:07and the indications are that his alibi in Houston is as good as established. The following investigation
03:13by the journal and its correspondence in Houston seems to have revealed very pertinent fact about
03:18the life and movements of Paul P. Bowen, who was unknown publicly until Tuesday morning.
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