The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-12
Governor Declines to Honor Acquisition.
 DEPENDS ON SOLICITORS
Taylor Says Russell and Dris-
 coll are the rien.
Positively Identified by Photographs Which They Left at Foot of Hirscher Brothers' safe-To
 nave Trial in Mobile.

A requisition made by Governor W. 5. Jennialss upon the Goyernor oL AlaDame tor AiperI Driscoll and j. E. Russell tAe two men unuer arrsst ln Mopa-e. suspecteu of tue roOcely of the saIe or ttifscnef Brothers and the Forces Piano Company has not been honored py Governor Jeiks. Yesterday the Governor teIegrapned Gov ernor jennings that he mignt desire to hoAd tho men.
 The Governors action upon the requisi- tion will depend. upon the report made to him by solicitor Hugh Dent after he has examined the evidence against the two suspects If Solicitor Dent reports that the men can be convicted with the evidence now held against them the requisition will not be honored and the accused men will be brought to Montsom- cry for trial.
 Governor Jelks notified Governor Jen- nings that the requisition. would not be honored until the solicitor of the Ctfy Court of Montgomery had reported whether the men could be convicted in Montgomery County. Similar informa- ton was sent to the Mayor of Jacksonl vile, Fla, who had written the Governor in the interest of the acquisition. The men are wanted in Jacksonville for. the same crime with which they are charged in Alabama-safe blowing. %
 Captain Taylor Returns.
 Police Captain W. H. Taylor return ed from Mobile last night declaring that damning chain of evidence had been forged connecting the two suspects. Dris- coil and Russell with the blowing open of the safes of Hirscher Bros., and the Forbes Plano Company Tuesday night.
 s'The evidence is complete and cons elusive" said Captain Taylor. NO jury would fall to convict on 1t. We are going to leave no stone unturned, we arc going to spare no effort. to have these safe blowers brought back to Montgomery and put on trial here. I confidently be- lieye that we will succeed.
 'Tne men are wanted in Jacksonville. and in j, Savannah. The Jacksonvilie detectives are now In Mobile clamorinK for the men. out their latest crime was committed right here In Alabama, l do not believe the State aathoria will allow them to be taken to another State to be tried when their latest crime and one equal to any other was committed in Alabama"
 Mobile Has Charges.
 The men who were arrested in Mobile < Wednesday morning, have what is known { ss the 'Tong charge" docket against { them; They are charsed in Mobile with being dangerous and suspicious" char < acters and carrying concealed pistols. and { having burglars tools in their possession. < On the police docket their names appear Driscoll. alias Duncan" and isseil alias Clark. They will ned next Thursday on the ade against them in Mobile. The hearing was to have been day, but it was postponed. bile charges are all misde- lid Captain Taylor, while the charge is a felony. It Is ! mary in cases of this kind ' -..o s.sIouemeanor cases 70 give way i; to the felony charges"
 Left Their Photographs. ' The most conclusive proof of the con- l nectiou of the two suspects was the V finding of their pictures at the foot or \ the despoiled and robbed safe in the of- I Ace of Hirscher Bros. The pictures were I unmounted photographs one portrait of T Russell and the other of the two men 4 together. They were sent to Mobile for 4 connarison with the supposed originals \ Captain Taylor and others who made the 1 cornparison declare that there is no dubt s that the two suspects were the originals ' off the donuble photograph. or that the 4 single picture represented one of the men 4 The single picture shows the original in N the uniform of a ball player.
 I The incident is unique and unparal- II lsled m the craniAndA hSSSAS VI 4 Alabama or perhaps of any other X state. No case of burglary or robbery \ Is ever recorded in which the \ nerpetrators of the crime left their own \ D. ,otographs as indisputable evidence d against themselves. No such remarkable N occurrence has ever accompanied crime S of that sort so far as is known in the l United States.
 A Remarkable Feature.
 Such feature of a burglary or safe \ robbery would have been too improbable for a place in fiction, yet the men who v blew open and robbed the safe of Hirsch- ar Brothers did that very thing. Through accident, probably by their own careless ness, they let fall the damning evidence while theY. were In the act of robbipg the safe
 The photographs had been caFelessly rolled into a compact bundle and proba- bly, showed into the pocket of one of the men He undoubtedly carried portion of his burglar tools in his pocket. After en- tering F'orbess store, and while in the act of burglarizing the safe. the crum- pled photographs fell unnoticed b the floor.
 The crumpled pieces of paper were found next morning by the police among the debris caused by the dynamiting of the safe. The little package was turned over to Police Chief Gerald who smoothed 1t out and examined the two pictures carefully. They were sent to Captain Taylor who had gone to Mobile. After A careful comparison of the photographs with the faces of the two suspects. he says, that there can be no doubt that the two men under arrest are the originals of the pictures.
 Identified by Mr. Hirscher.
 Arthur Hirsch, co-manager of the Mont gomery theater. and a member of the firm that was robbed. went to Mobile and positively identified much of the property that was found on the two men. The 7 Messrs. Hirscher had in the safe before the robbery. black leather pocket book. This was found on one of the men. The robbers took out of the safe two ancient European coins which the Hirscher Broth ers had been keeping for several years. These coins were found Vl the suspected .rnen. Two old fashioned half dollars of a larGer size than Is now made. were taken