The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-15
REDO IS DEAD, JONES CAUGHT Murder of Deputy Red dick is Avenged. OUTLAW KILLED BY POSSE Slayer of Bibb County Officer Is
 Overtaken. His Companion, . Young Man With Brief Criminal Record, Breaks
 Down and weeps over
 Dead Body,
OUTLAW KILLED BY POSSE

Tuscaloosa, April 14.--(specta1.)- Bud Redd. the slayer of Deputy 6heriff John Reddick, was shot and instantly killed late last night at coaling. as he attempted to resist arrest by the off, flcers of the law who have followed him from swamp to swamp since the cold blooded assassination of the Bibb County Deputy
 Young Jones. Redds partner in crime and bravado. was arrested by the officers and brought to Tuscaloosa.
 The last chapter of the drama was tragic in the extreme. The pursuing party. headed. by Deputy sheriff Albert Cleer of Tuscaloosa, and composed of Deputy Cole of Blocton and Engineer George villiers of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad located the two des- perados at the home of a Mir. Smith, near coaiing. The men had left the house when the law officers arrived. The officers decided to watch the house until the men reappeared. They had been told that Redd and Jones would return at 1 :3o o'clock.
 But as the three officers sat con- ceaied in the woods In the earlier part of the night, sitting on log few feet from the road they heard the footsteps of two approaching men. They peered through the darkness and one of the men was recognized as Redd. The two men were halted and handG nut the man who had killed enc deputy sheriff did not propose to be taken alive. He reached for his gun. At the same moment Deputy Cleer and Mir. ViIliers threw shot guns loaded with buck shots on the murderer and pulled the triggers. Mir. Villiers inn mediately levelled his gun, at Jones and had him throw up his hands. But Redd disappeared.
 Rasld's Body Found.
 The officers were fearful that they missed their aim and that the despe- rado had again made his escape Jones was handcuffed and search was made for Redd. His dead body was found a hundred yards away. The heavy 2 charges of buck shot had gone true.
 The two men had undoubtedly em- parked upon a career of desperate crime It was evident from the sob ping statement that Jones made after his arrest and after his nerve had de- serted him. that Redd's purpose of becoming another Rube Burrows was cut short last night by the two loads of buck shot. Jones, when his arrest had been accomplished, broke down and wept. He shivered with fear, De- Iieyins that he would be lynohed for his part in the murder of Deputy Sher- If Reddick. He was only reassured when Mir. villiers agreed to handcun himself to Jones to protect him from lynchins.
 He admits his presence and assist ance in the murder of Deputy Sheriff Reddick. last Sunday. He was at the house at Buhl, near the Tuscaloosa and Bibb County line when the deputies, Reddick and Darden, approached. Redd and his companions were expecting them. They were expecting an at tempt at arrest because Of their com plicity in a burglary.
 Jones says he was sitting in the house playing q banjo when Redd en- tered and told him.
 "They are coming after me and you must help me kill them. If you don't I'll kill you"
 Jones Fired First Shot.
 Jones, who appears to make a clean breast of his short career of crime. admits that he fired the first shot of the tragedy in which Deputy Reddlck lost his life. He says that as the deputy approached the house Redd seemed slow in raising his gun and he was first to pull the trigger.
 When the deputy had fallen in the yard the two men held Deputy Darden at the point of their guns until they were able to back away md escape in the woods.
 Jones declares that In his short career of crime he was the unwilling tool of Redd. He fell into the pow CT of Redd. he says. because he boarded last April at Redd's house and was unable to pay his board bill Redd then assumed a power over him which he kept to the end.
 Their first crime was the robbery of the commissary at Autauga Spur.