The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20
Details of Defendants Con-
 fessiOn Were Given
SAID HE COULD WALK ROPE
Mr. Starks Reiterates Statement That the Confession Was Purely Volun- tary-Trial May Occupy
 This Week.

Yesterday was by far the most inter- esting day of the week in the trial of John Bibb who is charged with the lar ceny of more than $5O0O from the safe at the ticket office of the union passen- ger station.
 The details of the confession made by the defendant were brought out by sev- eral witnesses and they reminded the nearer more of "dime novel episode than of the affairs of every day life.
 The field glasses which were said to have been used in reading the combina- tion of the safe through a hole in the ceiling of the ticket office were brought into court. The money bags in which the gold and silver is said to have been carried away were also produced and identified.
 The jewel case in which MT. Luckett's s diamond stud was kept was also offered in evidence. MT. Starks, MT. Bodeker and MT. Hamilton gave the details of the confession made to them by the de- fendant which showed the affair to have been one of the most unusual ever per- petrated in Alabama.
 Attorneys NettIed.
 The attorneys for the defendant showed by the examinations that they were net tied by the publicity given the different stages of the case in the columns of the Age-Herald as worked up by the of ficers.
 The state expects to close it's case on Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning and before the defendant shall have fin- ished the trial of the case will probably run well into the holidays
 The hearing of evidence will be con- tinued at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Saw the Jewel Box.
 Officer George Bodeker was recalled at the morning session to finish the testi- mony began on Friday. He was cross- examined about the jewel box which he claims to have found in valise in Bibb s room.
 He said he thought that the grip was searched by the other officers at the time of it's discovery and that he did not see the jewel box until three months after ward, when the grip was in the possess sion of MT. Meglemery, He was unable to say positively whether or not the box was in the grip at the time he first saw it in Bibb's room.
 The witness said that later in the day on which Bibb made his confession that Bibb declared the statements he had al- ready made were untrue. He further de- scribed the room at the Frisco house said to have been occupied by Bibb, say ing that the hole in the floor was covered with loose boards and that there was a loose mating on the floor; that the blanks were sections of the floor but he could not tell whether they had been bored off with an augur or sawed.
 On examination the papers found by Bodeker in the loft over the ticket office were introduced. They contained figures arranged in the form of a dial.
 He said that when George came in the room at the chiefs office Bibb said You have played h. now, haven't you; you are just as guilty as I am," and George replied, You are d-n liar!'
 MT. Starks on the Stand.
 B. M. Starks, superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, was next placed on the stand. His testimony was substantially the same as on Friday Up to the point of giving the conversation with Bibb in Chief Wier's office In gi.-- ing Bibb's conversation the witness said:
 When I went into the room I think I shook hands with Bibb and told him I had understood that he wanted to speak to me. 1 asked him a number of ques- tions and he said he was not guilty but that w. s. George was. When I asked him whether he was not implicated, he said George had given him a small amount of the money. He said he knew the money was going to be taken a day before it was taken.
 T asked him why he didn't feel enough interest in the company to come and tell us about it. and he said he ought to have done that When George came in Bibb still maintained that George did the act and George simply laughed and denied it.