The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-12

no troded. AS ne dressed m tne HGnt of kerosene lamp, the officers discov- upon the sleeves of his shirt and big stain of the same accusing kind on the l front of the shirt. His only reply to l the questions of the officers as to the cause of these stains was that his nose had bied.
 At police headquarters. Chief Taylor and his men piled the sullen and l frightened negro with questions. There was no connection to his replies. There was no connection to the different sto- | ries he told, and the police believed not only from his repeated contradictions, ! but from the names and circumstances that he mentioned, that he was not I telling the truth. He wandered around l in maze of contradictions and false statements. but he resisted every temp tation to confess. if that bloody crime was his.
 This negro, who Is now under the | shadow of the gaIlows. is of forbidding ] ionks. No man would want to meet | the evil face and the snewy frame in the darkness of of the night at a lone | iy spot. Coleman Is of the Kafif type of negro---the black negro with the ! thick protruding lips and the spread | ing, squat nose. He is young negro, l certainly not over 25 and probably I not more than 21.. He is the typical ''roustabout," the negro Ioafer who | stands half way between the working negro and the sporty negro gambler. | the tyre of negro who waits at the back gate for the cook and the house ! girl and carries home the pan of food l the woman brings out, and who spends | his days in fdleness around suburban | saloons.
 Tn Charge of County. He realizes his position. He knows | he now lives in the shudow of the gal | lows, and the fear of 1t has already begun to show in his loosely hung lips and the working of the whites of | his eyes.
 | The negro was kept all day yester- day at police station, and he was often | piled with questions. The police say | they got every class of stories out of
 htm except the true account of what { happened Tn the dark of the early morning hours. Sheriff Belser in per \ son went to police headquarters yes- l tcrday afternoon at o'clock and took charge of the negro. Chief Taylor | turned the prisoner over to the coun- 1 tv authorities, but the Montgomery | police department will continue their I work on the case
 There are women under arrest at po- lice headquarters with the vague term of suspicion" set against their names l The police department will satisy It. l selg. before these prisoners are re- | leased. that murderer and vic- | tim went alone to the spot oi the tragedy. Before these prisoners are released. the department will sat | isfy itself neither man or woman saw | anything of !. A. Finley after he was | In Fishers bar.t and from which he went to his doom. If the police know anything that will connuct these pris- eners with the crime. they are keeping l that information to themselves. The | principal, in the butchery, the police are
 confident has been caught, but they in- ! tend to Hind out if there were any oth- ] CTS savage enough or brutal enough to l take part in such a crime.
 A new suspect was arrested yester- | day. He was Jerry Ross. porter at the l wholesale liquor house of B. Helburn | Coleman went to see Ross Thursday | and had talk with him in the back I of the store. A clerk in the store noti- l fled Coleman that Mir. Helburn had for.
 bidden him coming in the store, and | ordered him out. It Is not known what connection the police believe Ross had | with the crime.
 | Ten Others In Cells. | The suspects who now occupy cells ! in the city prison are Susie Crawford \ Venus Glover, Willie Conley, Franh | Reed, Willie Terrell, Sweet White, Fred II and Jerry Ross
 | Coroner w. H. Tice will resume to. day at 10 o'clock his official inquiry | into the murder. He announced yes.
 terday he proposed to probe the mat
 tier to the bottom f it took a week "A number of new witnesses have beer | summoned, and some interesting testi. l mony is expected at the hearing today l The examination of the witnesses vii | be continued by Thomas W. Martin, tho | young attorney who is Chancellor Com. l mander of Central Lodge, the Knights | of Pythias Lodge to which Finley be- | longed
 The grand jury of Montgomery | county is now in session, and 1t is be- | lieved Coleman will be indicted as soon | as practicable and gwen an immediate trial.
 A feature of the case is the interest the negroes of Peacock's Tract take | in the case. and their abuse of Cole man. They seem to believe he Is guilty | of the diabolical crime with which he | Is charged. and they condemn him for | the effect the horrible offehse may have on the relation of the white and
 the negro races. A merchant whose
 store is in the neighborhood of the scene of the crime. and whose customers are principally negroes, said yesterday it was his firm conviction the negroes of the neighbOrhOod would put Coleman to death if the opportunity offered it, self. He was of the opinion the ne- groes fully realized the disastrous re- suit which might come to them from crime like that committed Saturday night, and they have an earnest and deep hatred of a man who, by his bes-
 tiality. bring danger to the innocent negroes.
 Finley We'll Liked. It is notable. too. that every business the highest terms of him. At the store of H. M. Austin, where he was em. ployed the week before. the crime. and at the store of B. Helburn, where he worked for four years, he was com plimented as 8 faithful. efficient clerk, and a man who was never known by his business associates to be drunk.
 At the store of H. M. Austin 1t was said yesterday that although Finley had been employed there only @ week,
 arrangements had already been made to give him a promotion. It was con-
 templated a new department should be
 established up stairs and he was to be
 put in charge of it. He knew of thus
 Saturday night when he left the store
 never to return.
 W. R. Fisher, proprietor of the sa-
 loon on the corner of Hall and Grady
 Streets. had a distinct recollection of
 Finley and tho negro Coleman. when
 they were together in his saloon.
 The negro had been about the ne-
 gro part of my bar throughout the
 early part of Saturday night He was
 drinking and playing pool with other
 negroes. I knew him well. but I never