The age-herald., 1902-01-21

it was he who was with him the night of the shooting and not Duncan. In fact on the scaffold he said Duncan was not there and had nothing to do with the killing.
 Duncan at the fall term last year of the Criminal Court was tried and convict ed of the murder of Officer Kirkley. He was given death sentence and sentenced to be hung on December 6, but execution was suspended on appeal to the Supreme Court.
 A. J. Dye was being held in the jail pending an investigation of his case by the grand jury which Is now in session. He was known as the Nashville Kid" and was charged with robbing the Bir- mingham Arms Company and the May & Thomas Hardware Company He is said to be an expert mechanic, locksmith and all round handy man at this kind of work. Some there are who think that he got into the jail for the express purpose of aiding Duncan and the others to es- cape. Probably he is the only man In the jail who could have picked the lock which serves the lever which itself locks all the cells at once in each row. It Is clear that he adopted the ruse of saying that he wanted to play poker with VanHorn and Bullard in order to spend Sunday night in their cell.
 Dye Made Confession.
 Dye confessed in the Inferior Criminal Court on November IA to having robbed the Birmingham Arms Company and the May & Thomas Hardware Company. He told Judge Feagin that he had been a wayward young man and had run away from home when he was IA years of age. He was held by Judge Feagin to the grand jury. Dye also admitted that he had inspected the hardware store of Drennen & Company with view to bur glarizing it, but thought there was too much light in the store for 1t to be safely done. He also said that under the pre- text of looking for work he had entered the May & Thomas store. He was in- formed that there was no work, but in- stead of leaving the store he secreted himself and was locked in when the store was fastened for the night. He stole several guns from this store. He was traced to Nashville by Detectives Cole and Shirley and was there arrested He agreed to return without requisition pa- pers.
 Dye at the time of his arrest, had been married but a few months to a young woman in Nashville and it is believed by the police that his wife was ignorant of his real business.
 When arrested in Nashville Dye wept and confessed that he had sold IS revoi- vers stolen in Birmingham to Meyer Marx, a Nashville pawnbroker. for $1OO. Each revolver was worth about SIP and they were all recovered. af
 Charged With Brutal Crime.
 George Bullard, another of the escapes is charged with a brutal crime. He is said to have killed or been implicated in the killing of an old man at Bessemer. named Henry c. Newell. Newall was robbed and his body then placed across two bumpers of g. freight train. It was carried in this manner several miles when 1t fell off and was ground into a mass by the train It would doubtless have not been suspected that his death was other than accidental except that a bloody sleeve was found in the railroad yard. This sleeve had been torn from the shirt worn by Sewall and showed that his death was not accidental. Newall lived at Milldale and was going to Besse- mer to visit his mother He had with him $200 which was stolen. Coroner Paris held an investigation which resulted In George Bullard and Andrew Sumner be- ing arrested. Sumner was one of the trusties in the jail Sunday night who was not locked up and had the use of the corridor.
 Jeff Van Horn was from Ensley and Is charged with highway robbery. He is said to have held up ana robbed a man named William Funk. This is a capital