Whitfield County GaArchives News.....Man Asks to Attend Funeral of Farmer He Is Accused of Killing November 21, 1913
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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal November 21, 1913
Dalton, Ga., Nov. 20.-- Charged with murdering Joseph Pritchett, W. L? 
Humphrey, who is in jail here, yesterday afternoon asked permission to attend 
the funeral of the man he is accused of murdering, which will take place today 
at his home in the northern part of the county.  He begged that he be permitted 
to be present at the funeral, stating that an officer could accompany him and 
promising not to give any trouble.  His request was refused.

Thursday morning, Humphrey, who still protests his innocence, will be taken 
before justice court where he will be given a preliminary hearing.  Officers 
say they can make out an unusually strong case on circumstantial evidence.  
They have witnesses, they allege, who will swear to having seen Humphrey, with 
a shotgun, leave here the morning of the crime; others who will swear to seeing 
him in the neighborhood of where Pritchett was killed; others who saw him 
coming back to Dalton with the gun; still others who saw him extract an empty 
shell, inject another and fire the gun; and a large number of others who heard 
him threaten to have his "$18 or Pritchett's life."

The aged prisoner has broken down repeatedly in his cell here.  Inmates of the 
jail say he has been unable to sleep and when the murder of Pritchett is 
mentioned, he asserts he is innocent and his body shakes with sobs.

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