The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-28
NJ ONE SEEMS TO KNOW ABOUT S6O New Phase of Case of Alleged
 pickpocketS TRANSACTION MYSTERIOUS Johnson Ray Tyler and Lily Ray Still In Jsl--case on Trial Yesterday
 Was Continued Until
 This Morning.
TRANSACTION MYSTERIOUS

Something of a sensation was sprung fin police circles yesterday when it was learned that H. l.. Hill, who took out an attachment against $60 of the money found on Johnson Ray Tyler and Lily Ray, who later gave her name as Edith Johnson, when they were arrested on the charge of picking pockets, had paid the cost of the attachment and ordered it dismissed.
 It was asserted that his S60 was re- stored to him, his attorneys fee paid and his transportation to Crenshaw, Ala, his home, paid, to say nothing of inci- dental expenses incurred while remain ing over to get his money which was taken from him last Tuesday during the parade of President Roosevelt.
 Mystery yelled the transaction. Attor- ney Benjamin Davis, who acted for Mir. Hill, when he swore out the attachment before Justice Abernathy, and who or dered 1t dismissed yesterday, could not tell why his client so instructed him. At torney B. M Allen. who represents Tyler and the woman. who are in jail, only smiled when approached on the subject. The detectives Bodeker and Hamilton. could not tell who put up the sixty, or whatAyer amount was given Hill. No one seemed to know where the money came from although the detectives swore 1t did not come out of the money found on the prisoners
 It was generally believed by the detec- lives that confederates of the pair in jail had squared" Hill although they had nothing but tho circumstances on which to base their belief. At any rate HI! has gone and the trial of the woman will be concluded today, her case having been started before Judge Feagin yesterday morning.
 There was large crowd in the court room yesterday when the alleged crooks were carried into the court room, and when Attorney Allen succeeded in hav- ing separate trials, Tyler was asked to go into Judge Feaglns private office where he was guarded by policeman The woman was then placed on trial Detective Bodeker being the first witness called. He reiterated the story already printed about seeing the man go through the pockets of two men, take their purse and pass them back to the woman; oi the stiff fight they put up when placed under arrest by himself and Policeman Baker; of the different names given al police station and the discovery of tho secret purse on the woman in whlcf something over hundred dollars wa. found; of the several pocketbooks in hel handsatchel, which contained the purs, identified by L. R. Hanks of Woodlawn who was robbed. The detective was close ly questioned by Attorney Allen as wei as J. Quincy Smith, who represents tn, city
 MT. Hanks was the second to testify He told of being at the union station ant of assisting the officers in making th' arrest short time after the inciden he missed his purse. containing over eigh dollars, and reported the loss to the police He went to the police station and identi fled one of the purses in the womani handbag, which had been opened by thu detective, and found to contain. accord ing to Detective Bodeker. something over $3
 Policeman Baker testified that he wal standing near Detective Bodeker whel he placed his hands on the man ant woman, and called to him for assistance He did not see the couple in the act O robbing people. Alex Rittenberry, assist ant to the warden, told of the none! found on the couple when searched a the police jail. He said there was abou sS4 and that an additional hundred wa found when a matron searched th woman.
 J. B. Potts, who was at the station saw the arrests and told of the part h. played in helping to subdue them whei they showed fight
 Because of the absence of the next an' last witness for the prosecution, J. Nor gan Fowler. an officer at Woodlawn who was at the station when the arrest occurred the case was adjourned unti this morning when it will be rsumed a 10 o'clock. He took part in the arrests.