The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-26

turned the two captured prisoners over to Henry Dorsey. . trusted negro. the first train. reaching the city at o'clock yesterday afternoon. Ac- cord1ng to Dorsey the deputies must have wounded the ring leader. When he. he left cnI.a,s hs says the officers were in
 A telephone message received by Sheriff Belser early last night from Deputy Wilson at Morganville. one mile from Judges Siding. indicated that the negro had not been captured He escaped into a swamp known as Steep Creek Swamp. between Morgan ville and Letohatchie. During his flight. the negro lost his hat. When it was found by the officers. it had sev- eral holes punctured in 1t from shot.
 4 negro, whom the officers met later. said that the desperate had approach ed him. thrown a revolver if his face and taken his hat and gone ahead. The blood on the left side of the highway man.
 Deputy Wilson and Deputy Norman remained in the vicinity throughout every effort would be made to take the negro before morning. If wounded, 1t is thought they will have little difi- culty in apbrehending him:
 highwaymen in custody. admitted to Henry Dorsey that they were with the other negro in the series of crimes committed. They claimed that the hiS. black negro, whom ,nnn they ,n,o called Jed trouble. welch and Green disclaimed any knowledge of the Washington
 In capturing welch and Green the the ground. It contained no cart ridges and had evidently been thrown away when the officers came upon the gang. .,. .o,s ns and robberies occurred early Tuesday afternooIk when Grant Pulsifer, an Au- tauga county farmer, was stopped at the five mile post on the Washingtona , revolvers in his face while they robbed him of $17. They then went to the house of. a negro nearby and took that they diverged from the road and held up a negro near Hendrix Mill, securing fifteen cents from him.
 Yesterday morning it became known been the same gang. perpetrated a SC, ries of outrages on the Mobile road in the vicinity of McGehee's Switch. About six miles from the city. late gro. getting g and a quart of whis-
 They then went to the plantation of M. B. Houghton. seven miles from the
  and after reaching the forks of the Mobile and Wasden roads. they met another negro and made him go to his house to get match. They grew anEry and riddled the house with bull lets, fortunately not injuring the oc-- cupants. They left the horse and mules at Pintlala Creek. three miles below McGehee's. The animals were recovered there yesterday morning
 T. E. Williams, of McGehee's con- veyed the news of the. crimes to the jail at 6 a. m. yesterday and posses were immediately sent in that direc- ton.
 Of the two negroes in jail. Welch Is five feet five inches tall. a ginger cake color. black eyes and black hair and has a scar on his right cheek. He claims he is nineteen years old and says he is originally from Troy. hav- ing worked there at an oil mill.
 Green Is nearly black. He is five feet seven inches high and says he is twenty years old. He claims that he was formerly employed as a janitor at a high school in the city but that he has recently been working at the Louisville and Nashville shops.
 Welch and Green insist that Big Boy" the other negro. induced them Wednesday afternoon at a restaurant in the western part of the city, to go with him. representing that he was in quest of labor for an enterprise in Helena and would guarantee them handsome wages.