Tuesday 29th April 1913 Keeper of Rooming House Enters Case

Tuesday April 29th 1913 J. W. Phillips Thinks Couple Who Asked for Room May Have Been Gantt and Girl. Was the young woman who in company with a young man applied to John W. Phillips keeper of a rooming house at Forsyth and Hunter Streets at about 11 oclock Saturday night for a room Mary Phagan the little girl who was found murdered the following morning? And was Gantt the man with her? Phillips was not positive today. He saw the young woman in the morgue at Bloomfields undertaking establishment and it is understood he positively identified her to city detectives and the County Solicitor. She looked very much like the young woman he said but he would not make the positive statement to a reporter today. He went to the police station this morning to see Gantt and declared the prisoner looked much like the man who applied to him for a room.