The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-30
COMES TO AID SAFEBLOWERS Lawyer Parker Will be
 Here Today. MOBILE IS INDIGNANT Russell and DriScOll Spent a
 Quiet Day. Montgomery Officials Declare They Acted on Best Legal Advice
 and Are Satisfied With
 Their Work.

J. J. Parker of Mobile, attorney for AL bert Driscoll and ]. =. Russell, the al- legged safe blowers, who are confined in the Montgomery County jail, will arrive in Montgomery today and interesting le- gal developments will probably follow his coming.
 Since Driscoll and Russell were taken from the Vinegar Bend convict camp. where they were at hard labor for the county of Mobile awaiting trial for mis- demeanors. to answer charges of burg lary and safe cracking in Montgomery, the Mobile press has devoted much space to opinions of different Mobile lawyers on the alleged illegality of tsie removal of the men from Mobile County.
 The action of Sheriff w. R. Waller and Police Captain w. H. Taylor, who brought the men through Mobile and who spent several hours lodging Mobile policemen with habeas corpus writ to prevent the removal of the prisoners. has been described as Kidnapping.
 Legal Flaw Alleged.
 It is alleged by the Mobile press that political machinery was used to secure the order from the President of the Con- Vict Board for the removal. The keynote of these articles Is that there is some legal flaw in the action of the Montgom- cry officials and it is thought that the coming of Attorney Parker means an attack on the right of the sheriff of Montgomery County to hold the prison CTS.
 Solicitor s. H. Dent of Montgomery County merely smiles and says he is sat- isfied with the legal status of the case. The prisoners are here awaiting trial, he says. and he does not care to discuss the matter further.
 Lawyers men of high legal attainment, declared yesterday that there was not a scintilla of doubt about the right of the Convict Board to remove Russell and Driscoll, or all of the prisoners. from Vinegar Bend. It was said that 1t was shown by Judge Sayre of fhe Montgom- cry City Court that he had an affidavit that the men were In an insecure pris- on; on misdemeanor charges and that they were wanted here on felony charges. He merely made an order for their re- moval to the Montgomery County jail for safekeeping. The Convict Board honored his order for the removal of the pris- oners.
 Late last night a telegram was received by Driscoll and Russell from Lawyer Parker, stating that he would arrive here today.
 The two men yesterday for the first time since their eventful advent in Mont SOiuciy oii llle pllSul Ol DSCoHnDef ., when they are alleged to have entered the safes of the F.. E. Forbes Piano Company and the Montgomery Theatre, failed to do anything of interest. They spent the day pacing the corridor in front of their cells.
 No Poached Eggs Here.
 In view of the fact that Mobile news papers laid great stress on the dainty ap- petites of Russell and Driscoll during their stay in the Mobile city prison, it may be of interest to the Montgomery public to know that the men did not have dinners ordered from the most fashion able restaurant in the city yesterday as was the case in Mobile. Instead of the poached eggs on toast paid for by money taken from them, as narrated in the Mobile press, their dinner yesterday con- sisted of corn bread, fat meat and baked beans. the same as other prisoners in the Montgomery County jail.
 Requests were frequently made at the jail to see what the men looked like but the permission was denied to all with the exception of police officers and represen- tatiVeS of the DreSs