The age-herald., 1901-01-19
saw 1t again next morning after the rob bery when Chief Austin handed it to him.
The Fireman's Story.

saw it again next morning after the rob bery when Chief Austin handed it to him. The Fireman's Story. | John Lee. colored, testified: q was in | the boiler room the night the Standard Oil Company was robbed. I saw five men that
 night, one going around the office with light the others were standing around outside watching. I could not identify any of the men. I heard five or six shots, and man hollow Oh! oh I went and gave an alarm. I went to sever- al places before I could get any help. One
 man said he couldn't go down there and get shot"
 R. E. Lashley then testified: "I am manager of this division of the Standard Oil Company. About half an hour after these men left the office l went there and found Mir Clayton and several policemen there. The safe had been blown open and papers were scattered around. Mr Clayton was badly beaten up and shot. Several men who lived nearby were there also I remember MT. Bennett was one."
 This witness was not croSS-examined. B. F. Phillips then testified
 T have seen this defendant before. He
 got on the train at Irondale couple of
 days after the robbery. Miller was with
 him. They went to Annston and got off
 there at the water tank. There they spoke
 to Thomas Fay and all three started off
 down the road. I notified the officers in
 Annston that they were there" On cross-examination he said: "I got on
 the train at Birmingham. There were two
 police officers on the car. I was standing
 in the door when we reached 1rondale,
 looking for these men. I saw Miller and
 Edwards get on there, and pointed them
 out to the conductor. 1 will not swear,
 however that he did not get on at Birm-
 ingham, get off at Irondale and get on
 again. This was the day after MT. kirkley
 died.
 Chief Austin then took the stand. He
 identified Edwards as one of the men he
 brought from Anniston. '1 went after
 him. he said q had some conversation with them. Edwards made a statement. He said he had just met Miller at Annis- ton and that it had eeen a month since he was in Birmingham. On cross-examnation he said that the men had been searched when arrested and pocketbook, some papers and comb had been turned over to him. Corrects His Evidence. q carried Miller and Edwards to see Clayton at the infirmary. l think he iden- tified Miller"
 The chief then said that after the shoot ing some men had been fined and turned loose at the city jail who had with them when arrested nitro glycerine and burglars S tools That on second thought it was two of these men and not Miller and EdWards that he had taken to see Clayton. My recollection is that Clayton said one of these men was one he had seen outside the office.
 Former Officer Dsheroon then testified: ''I arrested Duncan In Chattanooga ln March 1900" Was shown pistol. T got that in Chattanooga in the room that Dun can was in. We arrested eight men in the room, and out of the eight we got West,
 Duncan and Tom Fay This was the sec
 ond day after the robbery"
 MT. Callahan moved to exclude his testi-
 mony as irrelevant Judge Greene sus-
 tained the motion only as to testimony of
 the arrest of Duncan.
 On cross examination he told how he
 could identify Duncan's pistol by certain
 marks.
 Tim Perry. colored, testified: "I was on
 the corner of Third avenue and Twentieth
 street the night the policemen were shot I saw Miller and Duncan that night Miller had on a light overcoat and a light nat The policemen were with them. Miller,
 who did the shooting, went up towards the court house."
 Defendants attorney moved to exclude
 this testimony as irrelevant. Judge Greene
 reserved his decision on this point
 Percy Olmstead testified: "On the night
 the Standard Oil Company's safe was blown
 open I was on the corner of Twenty-first
 street and Third avenue. l saw man
 with light oyercoat on come running up
 He took off his OVercOat Wnlle TuIiiiiHs anu
 laid it down on the sidewalk. l asked him
 what was the matter and he said, I'll be
 damned if I know
 Defendants attorney moved to exclude this testimony. Judge Greene reserved his decision On cross examination witness said the man running had no brogue when he spoke
 Myrtle Allen testified "I have seen de- fendant before It was the last of March, the night before the robbery. West, Fay, Miller and Duncan were with him, also three others"
 On cross examination she said she went to the jail afterwards to identify them. That Chief Austin was present at the time.
 The Light Overcoat. Officer Patton then testified: ''I was at the station house when the shooting be- gan I went up Third avenue. I found a light gray overcoat, In the pockets were a ball of soap, bottle of nitro -glycerine, a pocketbook and some papers" Qdenti- fled Wofford's pocketbook.) It was moved to exclude this testimony. Motion overruled.
 John Rowlett testified: "I was clerk at police headquarters in March, 1900. A light f,OtHT