The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-24
MRS. TYNER RIFLES SAFE
 AND HER HUSBAND IS FIRED

months at time. He is suffering from
 In consideration of this fact the request for his resignation was based on his Ill health.
 Payne Makes Announcement. The announcement of yesterdays deveI- opments was made by Postmaster Gen. eral Payne late this afternoon to q large number of newspaper correspondents. In . voice that trembled he said that he re- gretted to have to say that he had found 1t necessary to remove from office the Assistant Attorney General for the De- pertinent and after speaking in a gen. sral way about the facts that. had de- veloped, said the story was hest told in the correspondence which he then read in most feeling tone. Then he announced that he could say nothing further on tho subject and that he preferred not to be asked any questions. He was asked if any arrests would be made as she result of the abstraction and if any one else in the oflice was involved. He said that these were matters which he could not discuss, that 1t rested with the Attorney General to whom the papers would go as soon as the record of he case could be copied and submitted.
 The case, however. he added, would be in the hands of the Department of Jus tice tomorrow and what further steps will be taken will be decided by the Attorney General. He did not care to venture any predictions as to the outcome.
 MT. Tyner at the time the papers were taken was still technically Assistant At torney General and this fact will figure in. consideration of the question by the Department of Justice. It Is pointed out. however. that although MT. Tyner still held the offices his resignation not having yet become operative, the acceptance of the resignation. was with the strict un- derstandlng specifically stated In the let ter of acceptance that he would not at tempt to administer the duties of his of- flee. It Is fully realized by the Postmas- ter General that the case presents a deli cate situation and for that reason he de- clined today to enter into discussion of the affair.
 An effort was made tonight to obtain from General Tyner or Mrs. Tyner . statement but met with no success, Mrs. Tyner stating that they had nothing to say on the subject and would not have tonight. The suggestion was thrown out that there might be something to give out by General Tyner's side. some dime in the future. Mrs. Tyner apparently took the matter very. coolly :.
 General Tyner is in a very weak and almost helpless condition from his long sickness. He remains in his room most of the time and sees very few callers
 General Tyner Reconsiders.
 After General Tyner had receivsd the letter of dismissal from Postmaster Gen. eral Payne he called in consultation 'At- torneys R. Ross Perry and L. T. Niche ner. who are intimate friends, regarding the matter. These gentlemen later in the evening made statement. which was in part as follows: s..,-. 2
 General James N. Tyner. asks from the public a suspension of judgment until he can put before them the facts relatinR to his removal from oiiice and the cause as- signed therefor by the Postmaster Gen eral; The matter has come upon him so suddenly that he cannot now make de- tailed statement. but must necessarily confine himself to a general account.
 When the two inspectors from the de- partment came to the house and demand ed the papers. General Tyner upon the spur of the moment and without other guide than his indignation. refused to de- liver them. Later on the same evening he sent a letter to MT. Bristow asking him to come to nls house. intending to put the papers in his charge. Unfortu- nately Mf.. BTistow was unable to come. The papers are now in the possession of General Tyner in the same condition in which they were in the safe. They are all the private papers Of General and Mrs. Tyner. save one bundle which re- late to a matter not at all connected with anything now pending in the department and long since closed. These papers will all be placed at the disposal of the proper authorities of the government"
 Messrs. Perry and Kitchener will go to the Department of Justice tomorrow and communicate the facts in the case to the officials there, at the same time offering to place at their disposal for examination the papers taken from the safe.