The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-11
SOME SENSATIONS ARE
 EXPECTED ON ARRIVAL
W. s. George, Who Has Been Accused of the Crime, Says He Will Be Win Be Glad to Face Bibb
 on the Charges Made.

John Bibb was arrested yesterday in Nashville. and will be brought to Bir- mingham this morning at SIPS o'clock.
 He is wanted by the local police on charge of being implicated in the robbery of the ticket office safe at the union pas l senger station on the morning of May Is. when nearly s7OO0 in cash and checks was stolen.
 Bibb was arrested yesterday morning in Nashville and the local police were mo- tified a few minutes before 3 o'clock yes terday afternoon. Chief Wier at once tel egraphed to hold Bibb and that Detec- tive Hamilton would leave last night for Nashville.
 A second telegram was received from Nashville, stating that an officer from there would leave Nashville last night on Louisville and Nashville train No l with Bibb No. 1 reaches Birmingham at S:25 this morning.
 ,Bibb has agreed to come without requi- sition papers, and from what the police here can learn of the arrest he Is ready to face the charges against him. There promises to be some exceptionally start ling developments in the case when he reaches Birmingham, as 1t Is expected i that he will make full confession of the manner in which the burglary was com mitted and who was implicated.
 Reads Like a Dime Novel.
 The story of the robbery reads like the tales of old Sleuth. On the morning of May IS the office of Capt. Jack W. Johnson, ticket agent at the union pas senger station, was entered and s7Oo0 was stolen from the safe in his private of- flee. The combination of the safe was worked and the burglary was not discov- cred until about o'clock, when Night Ticket Seller Cook went into the private office and discovered that the safe and windows were open. He notified the au- thorites and a rigid investigation was made for more than a week.
 On the morning of May 26 Bennett Bibb brother of John Bibb, and Lige William son, friend of John Bibb, were arrest ed on charge of being implicated in the burglary. They were locked in the city jail and retained there until last week. when they were released on bonds of 5000 each.
 Arrested on Georges Statement. The arrests were made on a statement of ". s. George that he had heard the Bibb boys talking about robbng the place and commenting on what a slick job 1t was. George reported the matter to Detective Bodeker and he with De- teotives Hamilton and Patton made the arrest of Bibb and Williamson on the morning of the 26th at the Frisco house, where all four of the boys had been liv- ing.
 John Bibb wrote a letter to the city detectives through the Age-Herald in which he accuses w s. George of com hitting the crime and then giving him (Bibb) some of the money. Bibb stated that he would like to stay and face the charges against him, but that he thought the detectives were on Georges side and that he could not get fair play. He stated that he was enroute to Canada and that he hoped to return to Birming- ham some day. He stated that his brother and Williamson were not guilty and that the police had arrested the wrong man.
 In reply to this letter George gave the Age-Herald a full outline of how he had overheard the conversations of the Bibb boys and Williamson and how he had entered Bibb's room and found him on his knees working with a hole in the floor in which was hidden some tools and other things. He told how he had gone to Detective Bodeker and told him all that he knew and the subsequent ar rest
 George Smiles.
 Yesterday afternoon George was found at the corner of Twentieth street and Morris avenue by Detectives Patton and Bodeker and he came up with a smiling face and told them he understood that Bibb had been arrested. He seemed very glad. He was asked to make a state ment as soon as he was found. but said that 1t was not the proper time and place for one and that he would wait un- til Bibb was brought to Birmingham be- fore he talked.
 Later at the office of Chief of Police Wier George was again asked to make a statement. He said
 ''T don't think this Is good time Walt until Bibb is here. or course I am glad that Bibb is arrested, and that the whole matter will be sfted through. I arh ready and willing to face him.
 What I said in the interview I gave you last week was the truth and there are no changes to be made in 1t at pres I ma gf ottf at frO Inf