The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-27
Wanted to Drink.

The young men declare that they had
a quart of whisky and that they jumped
over the fence about | o'clock and in
tended to sit down on the porch to drink
There has been found and traced to the
possession of three of those arrested
goods which are alleged to have been
taken from the drug store early in the
night. OF the loss of the goods DIR. Smith,
proprietor of the drug store, was in
ignorance until informed this morning
by the authorities.
The mayor. chief of police and officers
are very reticent about the whole af-
fair. but the statement is made that de-
velopments are expected in a few days
which will astonish and grieve many peo-
pie just what is to come is not known.
There are intimations that many mys-
FERROUS happenings of the past will be
brought to light and that more than one
party resting In fanced security will
have to answer for crime.
The f1ve young men when seen by a
newspaper man this morning declined
to say. anything for publication. One
of the number started to make state
ment. but another commanded him to
shut his mouth and he did so.
Are They Detectives.
There is ground to believe that ]. p
Waller and r. w. Mckay, two of the
young men implicated in the affair are
nothing more nor less than shrewd de-
tectives in the employ of the city to
ferret out the cases of repeated robberies
and car breaking that has baffed the
force lately. The theory that such is
the case may not be true. but the fac.
that the authorities were cognlzant of
every move made by the band, that every
thing turned out as they expected, the
talk INDUCED in and their indifference
to the seriousness of the crime, all leads
to the conclusion that they are detec-
tives who have been at work here some
time
j. P. Waller is alleged to be in the
employ of the Globe Hosiery company of
Chicago. He came to Selma about two
weeks ago and was arrested for doing
business without license. He paid a fine
| of so and was released. He has been
selling hosiery since then and there is
! cause to believe his hosiery sales were
simply a blind. AS to Mckay his identity
was not ascertaned
CLEARWATER Confessed.
To the authorities one of the young
| men. Dick CLEARWATER. made a clean
| breast of the affair. This confession the
authorities will not let out of their pos
session. but it is attested to and is said
| to state that the purpose was to rob the
I
| to interfere should he awake.
The trial will come up Monday and
| counsel has been arranged for by the
three young men who are residents of
the city. Waller and Mckay have made
! no effort to secure counsel another fact
that goes to strengthen the theory that
they are detectives in the employ of the
| city.
Fell Dead From Stand.
This afternoon as Rev. e. T.. Gardner
A negro preacher living near Orrville was
| testifying in case against Prince Moore
and Martha Gardner, the latter a daugh-
! ter of the preacher. he fell from the
witness stand to the floor and died few
/ hours later
The case was in progress before JUS
! tice I. d. Lloyd and Gardner was lust
| about to tell the court the story of his
! daughters wrongs when he began to
gasp and to roll his eyes back and soon
! fell to the floor.
Physicians were summoned who de-
| clared that a cerebral hemmorhage had
/ likely occurred. AS the witness stretched
| himself out on the floor in the death
| throcs Prince Moore, the defendant In tho
case stood up in court and cried out
| "There now, dat dinner done got a stroke
| of Judgement He was Just about to swear
! to a lie against me and he was struck
down." BY agreement of counsel Prince
Moore was placed under a $500 bond.
St.Ar;E IinIn. D,I.