Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Clower, Warren Marshall May 27, 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meredith Clapper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002801 May 21, 2007, 11:21 am The Atlanta Constitution 30 May & 3 June 1897 The Atlanta Constitution 30 May 1897 Was Clower Hurled Over the Cliff? Will Marshall Suspected of Murdering and Thowing [sic] Body Into Falls He Gives Himself Up As Soon as He Read in the Papers He Was Wanted by Police. Says Clower Fell Over The Cliff The Body of the Dead Man Is Still in the Waters of Tallulah-Not Expected To Be Recovered Will Marshall, the negro suspected of murdering Marshall Clower and then throwing his body over a cliff into the waters of Tallulah falls, is behind the bars at police station. The theory of murder was telegraphed from the falls to The Constitution on the day in which Clower went over the cliff, but as there was only one witness to the tragedy it was given little credence. Mr. Clower, the father of the young man, has been at Tallulah falls since the day of the horrible accident, investigating all the details connected with his son's disappearance. Yesterday morning the following telegram was received by Chief Connolly: "Arrest negro that was with the conductors' excursion at Tallulah. Will Marshall, alias Will Burke. I will arrive tonight. T. M. Clower" While a number of men were dragging the river for the body Mr. Clower has been making an investigation of the place where his son left the cliff, and with the information given him by several people of Tallulah he thought it safe to order the arrest. Marshall is a very black negro with but little education. He has been employed at the Granite hotel as fireman for several weeks and says he has good recommendations given him by the people he worked for. As soon as Marshall read yesterday afternoon that he was wanted he went immediately to the police statio and gave himself up. The negro told the same story to a reporter last night that he told to the excursionists at Tallulah. "Mr. Clower was walking a few feet in front of me, both of us were bending over, walking through the underbrush that grows along the cliff. I don't know whether the wind blew his hat off or some of the bushes swept it off, but he made a grab for it and fell. As soon as he went over the cliff I cried for help. "I wasn't within ten feet of Mr. Clower when he fell. I didn't hear any pistol shots as they say. "If I had killed Mr. Clower I would not have come back to Atlanta. All of my kin people live in South Carolina and I wasn't far from the state line, and if I had killed him I could have gone across into South Carolina. I had three days to get away in, and yet I come down here this evening and give up as soon as I read they wanted me. I went around to try and fine Mr. Clower's store yesterday so I could talk to him about it, but I couldn't find the store, as they had moved from 36 South Broad street." Mr. Clower Returns. The father of the drowned man returned last night from Tallulah in an exhausted condition. For three days he has been climbing the cliffs and even plying the drag-books. " I have made a careful study of the place where the negro Marshall says my son fell over," said Mr. Clower last night. "From the point where Marshall said the body went over the cliff it is impossible for him to have seen my son after he hit the water. "I will return Monday and carry the negro back with me and have him go directly to the spot where he claims the body of my son left the cliff. His story does not coincide with the place and we want to feel satisfied about it. "If the body really went over the falls, as reported, it is now in Hawthorne's pool and will come up tomorrow,, after the accustomed time has elapsed for the body to float. "I don't know of any reason why Marshall should have murdered my son, as he did not have any money on his person and they hardly knew each other, but I am taking this last precaution so there can be no question as to how the affair occurred." The Atlanta Constitution 3 June 1897 Clower-Friends of Mr. and Mrs. T. Clower and Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Clower and W. M. Clower are invited to ___ the funeral of W. M. Clower at Trinity church this (Thursday) afternoon at 4 o'clock. The following men requested to meet at J. Barclay & Co.'s at 3 o'clock as pallbearers: R M Eubanks, __ Clower, Albert Clower, Stewart _lane, R. McDavid and Henry Ligg__. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/fulton/obits/c/clower9818ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb