The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-23
BIBB DENIES ANY CONNECTION
 WITH THE UNION DEPOT ROBBERY
Continued from Fifth psoe,

MT. Starks told him not to use such lan- guage, but Detective Bodeker just laugh ed.
 The detectives tried to get me to write out my statement and sign it, but I wouldn't do it. l made the statement, be- cause my brother was in jail, and l had been told they put him in the sweat box To make him confess the robbery
 T did not tell MT. Hamilton that I had my shoes unaced when he passed me on Morris avenue. I knew before l was ar rested that l was accused of the robbery because had seen it in the papers When George followed me up Morris avenue that night, when he was with Detective Hamil- ton, he gave me 1875. and told me to leave town and they would think that l did it. He said he would later give me 5000 He told me to go to Nashville
 ''I never saw the little leather box that the detectives claim to have found in my grip My trunk was on the bridge car. and George knew 1t was there George used my tools at the Frisco house frequently, and he had keys to my room the same as I did.
 This Is the first time I was ever ar rested, and I have never lived outside of Jefferson county
 Had $7o Left.
 On cross-examinati ton. the witness said he had $79 of the $375 left when he was ar
 
 about ten days
 "T went by the name of J. c. Carter while I was in Nashville" he said "The second statement l made to MT. Starks was untrue, and don't remember any of the particulars of the conversation. It was untrue, anyway. and l don't need to tell it. l didn't tell him that l looked through glass.
 ''I never said word about the burglary to the detectives after I got up in the council chamber. They didn't give me my dinner until 2 o'clock. l didn't say anything about being able to walk a rope across Nineteenth street.
 "l neve was out at Howard college at East Lake with a roll of bills I or oered a suit of clothes from M Israel but did not pay for it in advance I paid sl0 down and was to pay S10 a month
 "When I made the statement to Mir. Starlis I was crying and was very much excited, and distressed"
 F. M. Lynch on the Stand.
 r. NJ Lynch testified he was a jeweler on First av.rue. He was shown the jewel box which was introduced in evidence and said that he ordered such boxes by the gross and could not identify any particular one. He said he sold MT. Luckett a diamond stud several years ago.
 Capt Jack w. Johnson testified that George came around to his office ard asked nim if he could lend him $2 which he refused to let him have. He said that was after the trial in the Justice court
 A. R. Cook said Captain Johnson made the statement before the disclosures came out that he had heard something that made him feel good about the matter and that he thought II would develop in n Gay or two
 R. c. Mitchell reporter for the Daily Ledger, placed on the stand to tes- tify that he saw George in Raleigh, N. C.. since the robbery. where he was pos Ing as a detective, and where he was confined iD jail for the larceny of a pair of pants. Objections were made to al. the testimony, which was sustained.
 When this witness left the stand the defense closed with the understanding that the jury be allowed to go to the union ticket office ara to Bibbs room