The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-24
.ered for Arrest
,Avictisn Of Those
committing Crimes.
lntgomery's Indignant citizens APP
peal to Mayor and He Instructs
Chief Of Police to Use Every
Endenvor to Apprehend the
Culprits md Authorizes
Twenty Additional
PoIicemen.

The dynamite outrages have stirred
the city from center to circumference.
The whole city is aroused to the point
of stopping at every cost the reign
of terror that some would-be assas-
sins have sought to inaugurate.
Governor B. b. Conner came out
yesterday in a singing interview. de-
nouncing the lawless and violent acts
of would-be murderers who put dyna-
mite on a street car track. He pro-
nounces such an act "one of the grav-
est violations known to law" He
offers on behalf of the State of Alabama
a reward of 500 for the arrest and
conviction of any man who puts dyna-
mite on a street car track. and offers
another reward on behalf of the State
500 for the arrest and conviction of
any person guilty of shooting into a
street car
The Governor. Furthermore, calls up
on the police authorities Of the city
of Montgomery and the county author
tiles Of the county of Montgomery to
use every exertion to bring about the
arrest and conviction and punishment
Mayor W. NJ. league offers a reward
Of $3.50 for the arrest and conviction
of any person guilty Of dynamiting or
shooting into "a car within the past
ten. days, and reward OF $3.50 for
y unrest and conviction OF any per-
sen Sho ight be guilty of the out
RACES within the next thirty days.
Chs Mayor called into conference
yesterday afternoon President CASTOR
Gunter OF the City Council and City
Attorney G. p. Mcintyre to discuss the
grave situation. As result of the
conference twenty extra policemen
were added to the Montgomery police
force and arrangements made to pur-
sue vigorous campaign against the
men guilty of the outrages.
Several delegations of prominent cit
liens called upon the Mayor and urged
him to take firm position and to ex-
haust every resource to bring the out
RACES to an end. The Board of Direc-
tors Of the Commercial Club met and
discussed the crisis in the city's af-
fairs They offered to the city every
aid. financial and otherwise, and urged
that the city authorities take a Arm
grasp of the situation.
Are Murderers mt Heart.
Mayor league later in the day d.
rected Police Chief w. H. Taylor to
leave no stone unturned to catch the
perpetrators of the outrages. In that
communication he said of the men
who attempted the dynamiting of the
cars carrying innocent passengers.
Parties guilty of such acts at heart
are murderers and deserve the severest
punishment. The laws must and shall
be enforced and the lawless element
in our community must understand this
thoroughly"
The Mayors letter showed, that SO
far as the city was concerned every
resource would be exhausted to restore
law and order. The letter indicated
that the lawless element had misun-
derstood the attitude of the city. In
his letter the Mayor said:
mo drastic measures up to this time
have been employed, hoping that the
wiser heads among the dissatisfied
would counsel moderation and induce
the vicious to desist from overt acts
of violence, but 1t would appear that
our conservatism has been misinter-
preted and now we shall require a rigid
enforcement of the laws"
The Mayors letter represents the
sentiment of the people OF Montgom-
cry, who yesterday denounced in un-
measured terms the violence and at
tempted murder.
This feature of the strike, its most
deplorable feature, has resulted in n
change of sentiment on the part OF
a matter of personal indifference, to
be settled by the Traction Company
and its former employees now out on
a strike. Dynamite, pistols and shot
guns have aroused the general sent
iment that Montgomery shall not pa
tiently bear such outrages and that
the element guilty of them must be
apprehended.
There has been some talk of calling
out the troops. 1t is known that II
the resources of the city are not suf-
fcient to restore order the State au-
thorities are willing to assist in its
restoration with the troops.
All Attacks Made by Stealth.
Such is the sentiment which follows
q series of violent outrages within
sight of the State House. for which
not single arrest has yet been made
Three cars of the Montgomery Trac-
ton Company have been dynamited
one OF them within three blocks OF
the Capitol Unsuccessful attempts
were made to dynamite two other
cars.
Cars have been shot into repeatedly
All instances of this kind have not
been reported either to the police or
to the public press, but enough have
been reported to show that the motor
man, conductor or passenger who rides
cut in the suburbs after dark runs
the danger of cold blooded assassina-
ton.
The violence has been most cowardly
The shots have been fired from am
bush in the dark. The dynamite has
been put on the track by men who
slipped away in the darkness to watch
at a distance the result of their at
tempt on life and property.
The violence has been without the
element of any sort of physical cour-
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