The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-14
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 suspecsed Nexrsss Libesate1. Accordingly yesterday morning ChleE of Police Taylor had the negroes who
 have been arrested during the last Few days. taken to the Court House to ap- pear before the grand jury. When
 their testimony had been, taken tney
 negro, and of the dead man; the watch
 of Finley. which was found on Cole
 mans bureau the night after the kili- Ing; the key-ring which was found in the bloodstained garments which Cole
 man is said to have worn a.ol to have
 hid under Dan Finley's house. bear ing the name of Finley. and other ma
 terial bits of evidence were turned over
 to Sherif Belser yesterday morning
 by Chief Taylor. and although the poo
 lice will not relax vigilance in an ef-
 fort to secure any additional evidence
 bearing on the case. the matter has
 really passed out of the hands of the city officials. and into the hands of the county officers.
 Forty witnesses in all were examined
 by the grand jury yesterday. From
 the several individuals of this number
 were woven a mass of evidence which.
 hen placed before jury when the
 case comes to trial, 1t is believed. will almost certainly result in speedy con- viction. This Is regarded by the police and members of the city and county legal force. as being all the more cer.
 tain because of the fact that every
 scintilia of evidence which has thus far been discovered has pointed in one
 direction only. and that direction to-
 ward Corbin Coleman.
 The motive for the act has been made out. The condition of Finley Is known.
 The record of Coleman Is against him.
 The fact that the two men We're to-
 getheraaft Il o'clock on John Fin
 ley's lAst night on earth has been es-
 tablished. The finding of the watch and of the bloody clothes and the key
 ring al add to the cumulative mass. Negro Remains silent.
 And with the finger of suspicion. of almost certainty, pointing accusingly tow ard the negro, Coleman still retains his defiant. surly air. He either makes contradictions. or refuses to talk at all. and jail attendants say that in his
 rolling eyes and uncertain attitude they read Of fear gnawing under the sur face of the fate which he Is beginning to feel cannot be avoided.
 Of those who gave testimony before the grand jury yesterday was W. R. Fisher. the keeper of the saloon in
 which Finley was last seen alive. He told of the manner in which 'Corbin Coleman had approached Finley. of their drinking. of the W ords that pass ed between them. and of Coleman leav- ing the saloon by a side ooor al the
 time Finley left by he front exit. Officers c. c. Russell and T. J. Swear 1 ingen, the men to whose clever work the capture of the negro was largely | due, gave their testimony. They told of the arrest, and of finding the watch
 which was later Identified as Finley's | on the dresser of the negro.
 Dr. M. B. Kirkpatrick gave to the jury the benefit of his examination of Finleys body, made a few hours after | it's discovery on the deserted road. Dan and Callie Finley, negroes, under whose home the clothes which it is said Cole
 man wore when the murder was com
 mitted, were found. also appeared. J. D. Hendrix told of seeing the negro | with the bloodstained clothes early | Sunday morning at his store.
 Many witnesses Testify.
 Other witnesses who appeared be- fore the grand jury were Venue Glo- yer, Alley Crawford. Eva Ewing. Jer- ry Ross. John Reese, Samuel Helburn, Fred Brown. Frank Mccarthy. E. w. | Graham, J. P. Avant, W. T. Payne, | E. W. Jackson. Willie Joe Thompson,
 s: wsil, J: B. Higdon: Mary McBryde. W. B Kelly, ". J. Parker. J. M. I Hearq. o. c. McLendon. Susie Haney. w. H. Davis. Tom Porter. NWilI Ad- ans, Willie Reese, Nellie Crawford.
 Susie Crawford. Elsie Crawford. B.. Helburn, Thomas Linsey.
 l The grand jury which found the in- dictihent was composed of J. c. Haas,
 foreman; c. F. Wingard. P. H. Ste vens, w. H. Moore, w. A. Guy, ]. s.
 Pitts, Jr.. J. H. Galloway. J. Nick
 Joaes, J. H. Moore, J. W. Holmes, R 1 T. Ellsworth. J. J. Stuckey, J. D. Fan.
 min, J. W Ringstaff, A. J. Lamar and l D. Fleming.