Show DURRANTS PROP FALLS Blanther Was In Atlanta When Miss Lamont Was Murdered Atlanta Ga Dec 2J E Blanther better known as Arthur B Forbes who was manager and proprietor of the Southern Purchasing Agency in Atlanta I At-lanta and who recently committed suicide sui-cide in a county jail in Texas was in Atlanta on the day when the murder of Miss Blanche Lamont and Miss Minnie Min-nie Williams occurred in San Francisco Fran-cisco The statement is made by persons per-sons in Atlanta who knew Forbes and who had business dealings with him and to support their statements the books and records which were in Forbes office here have been consulted consult-ed and it is shown that between April 1 and 14 1895 the time of the murders in San Francisco Forbes was here and doing business with Kelly Bros Co and other firms If the statements be true and there appears to be no reason rea-son to doubt the proofs submitted Forbes alias Blanther could not have possibly been the murderer of the young girls and the declaration made in a written confession admitting that I he killed the young women is false c = |