Clay County AlArchives News.....Yates, Avery Body found near Railroad track. March 23, 1932
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Our Mountain Home March 23, 1932
Clay county officers Monday continued the investigation of the death of Avery 
Yates, 22, Bemiston cotton mill worker, whose body was found Saturday afternoon 
near the A. B. & C. railroad track in the vicinity of Watt's Mill, near Pyriton, 
in Clay County. Emmett Jones, another textile worker of Bemiston, with whom Mr. 
Yates was last seen, was arrested Saturday night by Policeman U. H. Lakey, of 
Bemiston, and turned over to Clay County officers Sunday for questioning in 
connection with the case. Mr. Yate's body was discovered near the railroad by 
two young women of Watt's Mill who were going through the woods to the home of a 
neighbor. The body was brought here and examined by Dr. J. H. Hill, county 
health officer, who expressed the belief that Mr. Yates had died as a result of 
injuries received in a fall from a train and from exposure. Several of the ribs 
on one side had been crushed and a long wound in the same side seemed to 
indicate that he had fallen against a cross tie, Dr. Hill said. It was believed 
Mr. Yates had been dead about two weeks. L. T. Campbell, justice of the peace at 
Pyriton, investigated the case before the body was turned over to the 
undertakers to be brought to Talladega for burial. Evidence obtained in the 
preliminary investigation tended to show that Mr. Yates had not died 
immediately, but that he had crawled from the railroad track to a point 128 feet 
from where he is thought to have fallen from the train. It was recalled that the 
night of March 5 was the first severely cold night, when the temperature went 
below freezing and snow fell. Officers were investigating reports that two 
farmers in the vicinity of Watts Mill had stated that a man giving the name of 
Emmett Jones had come to their houses on the night of March 5 seeking shelter, 
according to information received here. Jones told officers that he last saw Mr. 
Yates on the afternoon of March 5. train on which Mr. Yates is believed to have 
been riding is the A. B. & C. combination passenger and freight train No. 23, 
which left Talladega at 6:20 p. m. on March 5. Mr. Yates bad gone to town 
supposedly to buy the week's supply of groceries, as was customary. Funeral 
services were held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. Yates' father-in-
law, John Crabtree, 512 Roberts Street, Bemiston. the Rev. Mr. Brown 
officiating. Interment was made at Oak Hill cemetery, Brown in charge. Surviving 
are the widow, Mrs. Katie Yates; and two children, a son, Avery, Jr., and a 
daughter, Margaret; his father, Jack Yates, of LaGrange, Ga.; one brother and 
five sisters.

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