The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17

.xinr evdenc1 as the mur6erer of ,. A Finley. rho elder Coleman had just left the jail after fifteen-rninutes" 4l- terview with his son. He said his son admitted to him that he was present when Finley was killed.
 The other men, negroes. tho father said, according to his sons stateemnt, killed Finley. While the murdered man was In his death struggle, he grasped Coleman. and drawing him to him, caused the blood to soak into the ne- gro's garments. The watch. the pris- oner said. was given to him by a woman.
 Says Finley C;rasped Him.
 From the conversation I have had with my son, believe he Is guilty. said the father. If could have only got closer to him. think could have got 1t all. He was on the second floor of the cage, and was on the ground floor. and couldn't get near enough to him to hold the conversation wanted to,
 scolvIn knows about the murder, but there are others in it, and want to see the other guilty ones get their share of punishment. My son didn't say much. only that he was with two other men when the killing occurred. and that the others did the killing. The blood on his clothes. he said, was caused when the uyiu8 man SThSpeu uOiu OI COiFin Auu dragged him down to the ground on top of the murdered man. Colvin said a woman gave him the watch, but he did not say at what time.
 T asked my son if he realized how strong the. evidence was against him, and If he thought lawyer would do him any good" continued Lee Coleman. He said he was fully aware of what is in store for him. and he didn't think a lawyer could do him any good.
 Then told him to tell it all be- fore man and God, and he promised me he would. An honest confession Is the best thing for him.
 Lee Coleman is Baptist preacher re- siding on Mill street. He is a native of Lowndes County, but came to Mont gomery about five years ago from Pen sacola, where he preached for some time. He says Colvin Is one of his three sons. all of whom were born in Lowndes. @t 4
 Son straycd From Home.
 T can't account for Colvin's act" continued the preacher, talking of the son. He strayed away from home and got tangled up with women, and I hadn't seen him for a month when he was arrested The police came to my house at o'clock Monday morning, looking for my son, but we hadn't seen him for a month, and later the same morning bootblack stopped me on the street and told me CoIvin had pawned off q Mexican alf-doilar on him. and asked me to make it good"
 The Advertiser representative was the first to get the fathers statement, and as soon as he had concluded, he saw Sheriff Belser, to whom he recounted the same story The police were also notified later, and developments are ex- pected at any moment in the arrest of the men supposed to have been with Coleman. It is also expected an ef- fort will be made to have the prisoner make a clear confession Of all facts to his father. 4ao.i p 9Ss5g3TsaF
 That those in charge of the case be- lieve others were connected with the murder beside Coleman was evident yesterday when che grand jury ad- Journed to meet again March 4, it is supposed, for the purpose of further investigating the Finley murder.
 T cannot tell you that" said So- licitor Dent, when asked yesterday why the grand jury had decided 70 have a split session. The solicitor intfmated not even the grand jury knew the ex- act object of the reconvening. March 4.