The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-10
MEN CAUGHT IN MOBILE
 MAY BE MONTGOMERY ROBBERS

T
 ed by telephone yesterday morning from
 Mobile, and Chief John Case of the Mo bile police department told him of the important captures. Chief Case, as well as heads of other police departments. had already been advised of the robberies in Montgomery.
 As . result of a tsiephonic conversation between Chief Case and Chief Gerald Po- lice Captain Taylor went to Mobile last night.
 The credit for the capture of Driscoil and Russell. as they gave their names, Is due to two detectives and a negro who Jacksonville, Fla, where they are said to have committed robberies last Saturday
 evening.
 Stayed at Windsor Hotel. Driscoli and Russell reached Montgom- cry early Monday morning on Plant System train. They secured rooms at the Windsor Hotel near the Union Railway
 Station registering from Washington, D. c.
 Manager John Moffatt of the hotel de- scribes Driscoll as about 24 years old. He is five feet eleven inches in height, stoop- shoutdered; has blonde curly hair. Roman nose. blue eyes, weighs about 155 pounds and wore eyeglasses and a derby hat. Russell, according to MT. Moffatt, Is younger than priscoii. He Is about i've feet seven inches in height. dark hair and eyes and weighs about 1$ pounds. He l wore a small felt hat.
 MT. Moffatt said the men had several ! satchels and dress suit cases. They were
 assigned separate rooms and he noticed ! that they also declined to allow bellboys | to handle their baggage.
 l Bought Theatre Tickets. The men were about the hotel at inter- | vals throughout the day. They inquired about the location of the theatres and the
 box offices. They secured tickets to the
 Montgomery theatre from the ticket office
 in the Forbes Company's store for Mon- day evening and Tuesday evening. Early Tuesday evening the men, MT. Moffatt said, appeared at the cashiers
 desk at the hotel and paid their hotel bills getting their baggage and leaving the hotel. Russell, who did the talking. said they had secured tickets for the per- formanne of Miss Viola Alien at the the-
 atre and as they would leave town on an early morning train they would not need their rooms.
 The men had acted suspiciously about the hotel and hotel attaches had already been questioned by the two detectives from Jacksonville who evidently reached Montgomery some time Tuesday. 1t was known that these detectives were in Mont gomery Tuesday night They had follow ed their men from Jacksonville and they undoubtedly went to Mobile with them on the train which left Montgomery at S:1
 o'clock yesterday morning. An effort will be made to bring the men
 back to Montgomery but the Jacksonville officers may have the prior claim. Arrested in Mobile. A special to The Advertiser from Mobile
 last night says:
 Detectives Davis and Lacey this morn ing captured two men wanted in Jackson-
 vile, Fla, for safe-blowing. The men give their names at police headquarters
 as J. E. Russell and Albert DriscolI,
 claiming to be from Brooklyn, N. Y. and | electricians by profession. They were captured as they stepped
 from Louisville and Nashville train No. N. having spent last night in MontGom-
 cry:
 men and in a grip was t12. .4S in silver and nickles, mostly small coins. Tn another grip was complete set of fine burglar s
 tools and dynamite and cartridges. They
 also had two pistols.
 ''The local police department was wired from Jacksonville to be on the lookout for
 the men, descriptions being given. 1.-Two white men, officers from Jack | sonville. and a negro who says he is a
 porter in a restaurant there, came from
 Montgomery on the same train. They
 claim to have been following the men
 from Jacksonville to Valdosta, Ga. thence
 to Montgomery and then here. They saw
 the men in Montgomery last night, so the
 negro says.
 Russell, whose alias Is J. E. Clark, and
 Driscoll whose alias Is Albert Duncan.
 are said to be the men who cracked the
 safe of Cohen Bros. dry goods mer-
 chants in Jacksonville some time during
 last Saturday night.
 They were on-communicative. report
 CTS were not allowed to speak to them.
 '"rhe negro, the only one who would
 talk, gave The Advertiser representative l the information that he caught on to the
 men in a restaurant where they were
 stopping in Jacksonville. He followed
 them to valdosta and there lost them. \ but caught the trail in Montgomery,
 where he saw them last night. '"The authorities in Jacksonville were
 notified by telephone of the capture. About $500 taken from a satchel ia
 thought to have been the spells of the
 Montgomery robberies az the money was
 discolored from smoke and with it was a
 child's jacket and several pieces of iron l torn from a safe.
 ''The men will be held pending the ar- | rival of officers from Montgomery, who
 telephoned they were coming.
 Chief Case is also in receipt of sev- | eraI messages from the North and East
 asking for full descriptions of the men,
 ''The men have employed an attorney | and say they will oppose extradition to
 Florida. Both say that they are residents
 of Brooklyn and that they are eIectri- ] clans. DrIscoll Is about A years of age
 and Russell 9. Driscoll has tattoo marks
 on the left leg and Russell is crippled in | the left hand"
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