The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-16
IS ARRAIGNED ON
 ROBBERY CHARGE Mayo Denies COmpIicity in
 ThOmaSton Affair YOUNG MAN IS FOUND DEAD Russell Haynes confesses to the Kill Ing of Arthur Whatley During a
 Quarrel Over the Owner
 ship of Dog.
YOUNG MAN IS FOUND DEAD

Selma, January 15.-(Special) al)-Deputy
 United States Marshal Waite brought to
 Selma from Linden, Marengo county. thls | morning, Frank Mayo, the white man
 charged with the robbery of the post 1 office at Thomaston last week. Mayo was
 arrested by Constable T. H. Bedso of
 Thomaslon the morning after the rob-
 bery of the postoffce there being every
 indication of his having committed the l robbery. The tracks leading from the
 blacksmith shop to the postoffice the
 tools with which the safe was blown
 open having been taken from the shop
 eorrespon1ed exactly with those of Mayo, | who had been loafng around Thomaston
 for some weeks and had been doing odd l jobs in the blacksmith shop.
 Postofhce Inspector Thiele swore out
 the warrant against Mayo before United
 States Commissioner Dunlap in Mobile, and charged him with having taken $S3 In money order funds $25 in postal funds and SIT worth of stamps. None of the money or the stamps were found in 1 Mayo's effects, but in searching his be- 1 lcngings there were found a hat and | quilt taken from a store in Thomaston, some samples missed by MT Monroe Gus | dorf, a Selma travelling man who had employed Mayo to assist him in packing his trunks, a gold watch and other arti- cles On being arraigned before 4 jus | tice of the peace for the theft of the arti- ] cles from the store, Mayo acknowledged l his guilt and was fined $50 and sen | fenced to six months in jail. He has de- , nied his guilt of having robbed the post l office, but the web of evidence is very strong against him.
 1 This afternoon Mayo was arraigned l before United States Commissioner l. D. | Lloyd in this city, and at the request of 1 the authorities the case against him was set for Thursday at 1 o'clock at which | 1t Is expected that the United States dis 1 trlct attorney will be present to prose- 1 cute the case.
 l Mayo was seen by the Age-Herald's | representative as he sat in the office of | Commissioner Lloyd. Asked if he wanted to say anything about the postoffice rob | bery, he said that he only wanted to | state that he was not guilty and expected 1 to prove it. He says he came originally 1 from Boston and has been south eight l years. He is a machinist and came south when the Mobile and Ohio road was built from Artesia to Montgomery. being an engineer on the derrick. He has lived in Aberdeen and Columbus, Miss, and claims to have been a member of the l fire department in the latter place. He 1 has a wife in Mississippi, from whom he separated some years ago. Letters were l found on his person that indicate he has 1 been in trouble before, and 1t is believed he is an escape from the Ohio peniten- 1 tiary.
 Young Man Found Dead. l Saturday night about 10 o'clock F. c. Evans, who lives in the neighborhood of l Soapstone, but just across in Lowndes l county, was stopped by some negroes and 1 told that the body of man was lying i in the road near the house of Hugh l Hardy. The body proved to be that of l Arthur Whatley, son of Thomas What l ley of this city, and a brother-in-law of l Hugh Haynes of Lowndes county, who lives about quarter of a mile from where the body was found
 1 There were two pistol wounds in the l groins of the dead man, and he had eVi dently been dead three or four hours. The supposition that prevailed was that some 1 negroes had shot Mir Whatley from ambush, but Sunday morning Russel | Haynes, the 19-year-od son of Hugh l Haynes, stated that he had shot MT.
 Whatley. Young Haynes stated that he had quarreled with Whatley about a dog the latter had of his, and had told him either to pay him for the dog or to give him the animal. In the quarrel that en- sued young Haynes fired the shots that resulted in Whatley's death. Haynes sur rendered to the sheriff at Haynevile.
 Whatley was about 27 years of age and is married His sister married Hugh Haynes several years ago. Russel Haynes is a son of Hugh Haynes by a former marriage.
 Grand Jury Empaneled.
 The city court convened today, Judge l J. w Mabry presiding, and iuries were drawn including a grand jury as fol- 1 lows:
 Henry Jones. foreman; Lock Brady. c. l E. Hewston, w. H. Dudley, Blanchard Cook. l.. G. Clark S. E. Macon L. D. l Powers. Thomas Dungan, Robert Harvey, w. E. Harrison, J. H. Robbins. Jr., Thom as G. Gayle Frank N. Scott C. G. North i rip F.. w. Herman, J. F. Y. Cosby and R. A. King.
 l Civil jury cases will be tried this week, and the criminal docket will be sounded next week. Solicitor J. F. Thompson Is in l the city and is assisting the grand jury in it's work.
 Local and General.
 There was slight freight wreck this morning about 1 o'clock on the South ei1l railway about four miles from Selma at Brantleys switch. Some miscreant had thrown the switch during the night and freight train No. s, northbound, ran lulD tltt optn SWilcns l nt tiiSlHt WdS ut- rallied and required about an hour to clear the track. The midnight trains were delayed by the accident.
 At Peeks Mill. in Lowndes county, a short distance from the Dallas county line, Saturday night George Flowers shot and killed Charles Williams. Both are negroes. Just what the shooting was about Is not known, but Williams body was filled with a load of buckshot from Flowers gun, death resulting instantly. L. Lamar left this afternoon for New York to be gone ten days
 G. w. Buck, postmaster at Thomaston, was a visitor to the city today having come to be present at the trial before the United States commissioner of the white man accused of blowing open the post office safe last week.
 ANNUAL REPORT OF