The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19
DIAMOND IS DELIVERED
TYLER, ALIAS JOHNSON, GETS HIS
 JEWEL.
stone Recovered by Montgomery Police Turned Over to Man and Woman Who Were Arrested as Pick
 pockets in Birmingham.

| At g o'clock last night the $400 dia- l mond lost at the Union Railway Station on the morning of October 23rd. was
 son, alias James Johnson, by Special Officers Payne and Graham of the | Montgomery police force.
 At 10 o'clock yesterday morning, sit- ting in the office of Police Chief Gerald were the now notorious man and wo- man. They had both been in jail in
 Birmingham. but bond of s1.e0o was made by the First National Bank of Birmingham. $700 for the man and $500 for the woman. This bond being made, the prisoners were released from cus- tody, and, as was stated in yesterday
 once to Montgomery. Cioseted with the Chief in his private office was Su- perintendent J. I. Mckinney of the Mobile and Montgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad While the railroad superintendent and the chief of police were conferring in the private office the man of numerous aliases and his wife, also of aliases, times. excitable conversation in the ante-room. The man Is of medium
 height smsoth-shayen and with very The woman is looking, and Is pretty She has black hair, a pair | of black eyes that arc unusually bright | and deep. Unlike the man. she could look one steadily in the eyes, while the | eyes of the man were constantly shift ing. At times there was furtive look
 in them and he could not look oi . in | the eyes.
 Presently Superintendent Mckinney left for his office at the union station and the Chief told the couple that the
 diamond could not be delivered to make and would see them later in the day. The Chief, as soon as the couple
 had left his office, telephoned Sheriff
 Reaves of Pike County at his office in TwAx oVa1 rn1 frH fd An
 gomery on the Atlantic Coast Line
 train that arrives here at 6:15 D. m. Previously Sherim ReaveS had written the Chief that he thought the man was about two years ago. This was the Chiefs object in not delivering the
 diamond yesterday morning. He could
 not arrest the couple. but he wanted
 to keep the man here until the Pike
 County Sheriff could get look at him
 So the couple spent the day quietly at
 their hotel on Commerce Street. Su-
 perintendent Mckinney attended to his
 railroad business. the Chief waded through the intricacies of his business.
 and things relating to the diamond waited until evening.
 When the man Tyler or Johnson first gave the chief his address in Detroit as Claud Filler he telegraphed the chief
 of police of Detroit to find out some of Detroit, telegraphed back that C1aud | Filler was a responsible business man of Detroit and that he had not been out of the city for some time. In an-
 swer to g telegram from. superinten- dent Mckinney the Detroit chief made l
 the same answer but added that Filler |
 had some relatives who had passed l
 through Montgomery some <time ago. Later yesterday Chief Gerald received | a telegram from the Detroit chief say ing that he had succeeded in locating | the man whose photograph Chief Ger | aid had sent him and that his name | was Louis Schultz and that he was | a notorious crook of Detroit. adding | that he thought he would be able to | identify the women from the photo | graph in a few days.
 About 6:3O o'clock yesterday after | non sheriff Reaves of Pike County | walked into the office of Chief Gerald. | The man was sent for but as soon as | he laid eyes on him the Pike county | sheriff said. That is not the man. | City Attorney Mcintyre had earlier in | the morning advised the chief not to | give up the diamond, but as the man | was not wanted in Pike and there was | no charge against him here the chief | decided to deliver the. diamond to him. |
 At o'clock last night Special Ofl- | cers Payne and Graham with the dla-