The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-21
HALEY CAME FROM MOBILE Doctor Who is Accused
 of Crime. IS IN THE COUNTY JAIL Was Licensed by the State Two Years Ago to Practice. Charged With Assault to Rob Veal thy Visitor He Will Have
 Preliminary Rearing
 This Morning.
IS IN THE COUNTY JAIL

It developed yesterday that Dr. c. l. Haley. charged with an attempt to TOD W. H. Bentley of St. Paul. Minn., at the Magnolia Hotel, Tuesday night, was for nearly two years a practicing physician of Mobile.
 A warrant against Haley, charging as- sault to rob. was sworn out yesterday before Justice R. H. Jones by J. c. Ben- nett, proprietor of the hotel. The pre- liminary hearing will take place this morning at 10 o'clock. Indications are that two other warrants charging assault to murder will be sworn out. Haley is in the county jail.
 It will be remembered that Tuesday night w. H. Bentley, an aged man of means of St. Paul. Minn., having in his possession $500. on retiring found man clad In a white bath robe secreted in a clothes closet adjoining his bed room in the hotel. Attempting to grapple with the visitor to his room, MT. Bentley re- ceived a painful wound on the head from billy
 J. W. Bennett. proprietor of the hotel. undertook to stop the would-be robber 1 In his flight, and he was also struck on 1 the head with the billy Dr. Haley. a guest of the hotel, sup posedly from St. Louis, Mo, was called to dress the wounds of the two injured | men. Later in the night Haley was iden- tified by Mir. Bennett as his assailant The bath robe and the "billy" were found un- derneath the window of Haley. A board I CT at the hotel declared that he saw 0 | man immediately after the struggle with the robber run through the alley, where l she bath robe and billy were found, | and stop under Haley's window. The window was found open and fresh dirt was on the sill
 At the police station. Haley admitted | that he was not from St. Louis, but said he was from Tennessee.
 Identity Established. Yesterday morning Police Chief Gerald | sent to the Magnolia Hotel and secured all of Haley's papers from trunk, in his room He had Haley brought into his private office and questioned him closely. In the effects of the accused was of the State Board of Health, addressed to Ira C. Haley, M. D., Mobile. stating that examination papers for admission | to the practice of medicine in Alabama Ad been returned and he had made a general average of .96 the second high est grade ever made in the State. The letter was typewritten on a letter head of the State Health Department. Mir. Brassell, when seen yesterday l | ten and on being confronted by MT. Bras sell, the pseudo physician admitted that the letter was forged. Tt was done as a joke" he said.
 MT, Brassell says Haley was examined by the State Medical Board in October 1901. He barely made the percentage, en. titling him to pass. Since that time, he has heard of him practicing in Mobile
 In December of 1901, a young woman I yr,In.n -r Ruth Keown, applied for examination for admission to practice mediciden in Ala | bama. She was furnished with a list of l questions, but did not answer them, writ ing down the correct answers to the ques- tions propounded to Haley. Charged with deception, she admitted knowing Dr. Ha- ley. She said that she and Haley were | in college together at the Chicago Poly technic Institute.
 Haley Denies Woman.
 Haley denies knowing such woman l In his possession. however, was found a i letter postmarked Meridian, Miss. writ ten on the Mobile Ietterhead of Dr. Haley
 under date of Janury IS. and signed | Ruth"
 The letter indicates that the writer and | Haley are on the most intimate terms
 His advice is asked in reference to a case, refers to the Kirksville Mo-, School of Osteopathy, and tells him that if he is ''broke.' to call on her.
 l Haley admitted yesterday that he never graduated in medicine, but says he did graduate in osteopathy at the Kirksville school.
 l He claims to be a Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fellow. He bears receipts | showing him to be member of Rescue 1 Lodge. Knights of Pythias of Mobile. He | says that he has no money with which to employ counsel
 In the effects of Haley are papers show 1 ing that he has lived in Des Moines, la. l Meridian Miss, St. Louis, Mo. Tennes- see. Texas and Mobile. He was licensed to practice law in Des Moines. The papers show that the accused doctor has used the names of Ira Haley. I. C. Haley and c. I. Haley. In his possession is a diplo- ma from a Western school in the name of W. H. Champion.
 Haley was transferred from the police staion to the jail yesterday. He was confined in one of the subdivisions of the steel cage in which Russell and Driscoll the alleged safe blowers, are imprisoned.
 Injured are Improving.
 Both Mir. Bentley and Mr. Bennett wore bandages on their heads yesterday, but they were able to De out.
 Early yesterday morning after the in- leBIlly Ol Dr. Ildley ndu been questioned, and he had been locked up a reputable surgeon was called to the Magnolia Ho- tel to dress the wounds of Messrs Ben nett and Bentley The surgeon pronouno- ed the dressing done by Haley to be lack. ing in skill
 MT. Bentley expressed a wish freuuent, ly yesterday that he had been able to get to a 22-calibre revolver under his pil. low when he was assaulted. He is sat1s. fled, however, that he gave his assailant a lively tussle He says that he enjoyed Haley's company and grew very fond of him.
 He will remain in Montgomery to pros- ecute Haley.
 MT. Bentley is a brother of Mrs. Ruth Hooker, who died here about year ago. and has often visited Montgomery.
 The police believe that Haley came to Montgomery from Meridian, Miss. Tae letter from the woman in Meridian, Miss. indicates that he was nIanpiD1 +o ,,o ta