The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-03
Advertiser Bureau, GAyvno NHaraA


 Selma, March 2.
 Deputy sherin J. M. Tate of Cath crime, is in much trouble in this city. Instead of preserving the peace he has been distrubing the peace and in more ways than one violating the laws of the State for which he will be tried Friday morning.
 He is spending today in the city jail. All today Tate had had two negroes in his custody marching them through the principal streets of the city draw ing morbid crowds on every corner. every person wondering at the peculiar antics of the law onicer The police warned him several times to take his prisoners away or lodge them in the calaboose but he refused.
 This afternoon staggering and a1- most wholly under the influence of whiskey, he marched his negro pris- oners. Will Smith and Will Everedge through the business district a pistol in each hand. He entered a saloon and is said to have tried to bull -doze the bar keeper. using his badge as his represents tation. Ho flourished his pis- tols as he ordered drinks, it is said.
 Soon he was under arrest. Policeman Smith. just two feet lower and possi- ply eighty pounds lighter. marched the amazed deputy to police headquarters and soon the deputy from Catherine and his two prisoners were behind the bars number of witnesses will be examined tomorrow morning and from indications the deputy from Gather inc will have hard roal to travel
 Deputy sherin Tate thinks he has caught a negro murderer badly wanted in Florida
 The Deputy Sheriff, trailing behind two handcuffed negroes, marched into the city this morning and paraded the streets in the vicinity of the union passenger station.
 Soon the trio was increased and be- fore many minutes elapsed there was a multitude of boys and men, princi- pally negroes, following the deputy and his prisoners. The police request ed the deputy to take his men to po- lice headquarters or to get off the streets with them. Finally the police threatened the deputy with arrest, and he took the prisoners in a lumber yard, then in depot waiting room and shut the doors.
 The police were indignant at the persistency of the deputy in attra, ,t- ing crowds around him whiis the dep rty said that the police wanted him to release one of the negroes so they could arrest him and get the reward.
 The Deputy. J. M. Tate of Gather ineSthinks he has a much wanted fu- gitive in one of the negroes and he thinks that the s2oo reward offered for the negro's capture will soon be his.
 The valuable prisoner says his name is Will Smith and that he came to Alabama from Florida.
 Deputy Tate thfnka ha fs John Thopo- as. wanted by the Sheriff of Leon County. Florida. for murder. John Thomas, 1t Is alleged. murdered one Thomas Hall in that County. October is, 1904.
 The deputy exhibited a postal card from Sherif Charles Hopkins of Leon County. which gives a description of the John Thomas wanted. The de- scription fits one of the negroes in his custody. The prisoner admits that he is from Marianna, Fla, and that he has worked at turpentine camps. a fact that the Sheriff of Leon County lays stress on. The sheriff said further that Thomas was smooth talker and had played detective" That also nts the Smith negro arrested by Deputy Sheriff Tate.
 The other negro brought to this city by the deputy. says his name Is Will Everidge and that he has lived many years in Stafford. He doesn't know, te says. what he was arrested for. and the deputy will only say that he holds Everidge on several charges.
 MT. Freeman Here.
 J. C. Freeman of Brooklyn. N. Y. we'll known in this city, is visiting the family of Mrs. A. P. Blue Lauderdale Street. He Is accompanied by Mrs, Freeman.
 Mir. Freeman has long been connect ed with a business college in Brook lyn. and in few days he will go to Houston, Tex, to assume charge as hnRinaas nnnna rer and ,rinnnrncidn.,k