Georgia's "Perfect Case"

Wicked old women have always had uses for foolish young men. The "use to which old Mrs. J. C. Powers, 65, of Macon, Ga., put her young men would have done credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to help with the chores, drive her car. Six weeks ago one James Parks, 25, and one Earl Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity clause in case he died by accident. Then she worked on young Manchester to take her gun and kill Parks. She promised Manchester $1,000 of the $14,000 they would realize. After some hesitation, and some difficulty luring Parks to a good spot, Manchester did his part of the bargain last week.

"Monday about dark," he confessed, "I told him we would go down on Water Street in East Macon and lay for a liquor car. He went along all right, thinking we were going to hijack somebody.

"We lay down on the grass, and when he turned his back to me I let him have it in the head."

Solicitor General Garrett of Georgia proudly announced that he had a "perfect case." Old Mrs. Powers agreed. She said: "There is nothing ahead of me but death."