The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-29
Effort to Catch Dyna-:
 mite Men. CITY WORKED UP OVER THE TRACTION 0UTRAGES Total Amount Now Offered is
 $2,325.
President Forbes Has the Hearty Support of Members of the Club in the Movement to Apprehend
 the Criminals.

peace and safety of the citizens or Montgomery early Sunday morning when dynamite was exploded on street car track In the very midst or the city. the directors of the Commer- cial Club have authorized its prest- dent. A. O. Forbes, to offer reward of s1 ,ooo for the arrest. with evidence leading to conviction, of any person guilty of any of the offenses in whicn ears were dynamited or were hred upon.
 The reward Is additional to all the rewards offered by the Governor or the State and the Mayor of Montgom- cry, aggregating s7oo.s and six rewards by the Montgomery Traction Company each for one offense, aggregating $Soo. and reward of $25 by the strikers. The total of outstanding rewards IS therefore s2.325.
 The offering of the $1,ooo reward by the directors of the Commercial Club followed a conference by telephone which President Forbes had with each member of the directorate of the club. When he had learned the particulars of the explosion or dyna- mite under the street car on Madi- son Avenue near Decatur street early Sunday morning. he was convinced that the Commercial Club should lend its farther efforts to the suppression of the anarchistic tendencies that have become stronger and stronger since the strike of employees of the Mont gomery Traction Company began. President Forbes was i'll and was therefore unable to call or attend any formal convention Of the directors or the Club but he talked with each one of them by telephone and found each responsive to his feeling that the or- ganization of which the purpose is the betterment of Montgomery ought im- medfately to take any practicable plan to restore the good order of Mont gomery.
 To the propositiqp that :he reward of $1 ,000 should be offered by Presi- dent Forbes. as representative of the Commercial Club, there was immedi- ate and eager assent by the directors who thus for themselves and for the members of the Commercial Club showed the resentment and their an- . tagonism against Iawlessness that has prevailed for a time merely in the suburban and less frequented portions of the city and then, as if the plot ters against life and property had be- come emboldened by the immunity they had enjoyed, Sunday morning, for the first time, within five blocks of the City Hall, the home of every branch of the municipal government. struck at the quietude and the securi- ty which Montgomery had long en- 5oyed.
 On account of the illness of President Forbes 1t was impossible for a repre- sentative of The Advertiser to have InA with him He authorized the statement that the re- ward had been offered, that 1t was ex- pressive of the sentiments of the Commercial Club towards the outlawry from which citizens of Montgomery have suffered, and that the Club would in the future as in the past do all it could to assist in the restoration of absolute order.
 The Sl,000 which tho Commercial Club is willing to pay to put an end to outrages against life and property is not girt about with the provision that arrest must be followed by conviction before the amount is delivered into the hands of the person who succeeds in the detection and capture of one guilty of placing dynamite upon the tracks of the Traction Company or discharg- ing firearms at its cars. Its only pro- vision is that the arrest must be made in such circumstances as that evidence leading to conviction must be furnish ed. It is believed that the offering of the reward will add zest to the pur- suit of the criminals who have eluded the officers of the law.
 Total Rewards S2,325.
 The sum of the rewards already pro- claimed is $2.325. They are the 1000 offered by the Directors of the Com mercial Club. for the arrest. with ev- idence leading to conviction. of any person using dynamite or firearms to kill or maim passengers or destroy or damage property of the Montgomery Traction Company; $500 by Mayor w. M. Teague, for the arrest and convic- tion of any person guilty of those of- lenses; $100 by Governor B. B. Conner, for arrest and conviction Of any per- son guilty of using dynamite on the tracks of the street car lines in Mont gomery; $100 by Governor Conner, for the arrest and conviction of any per son firing into the cars of the Mont gomery Traction Company; six rewards of $100 each by the Montgomery Trac- tion Company for arrest and conviction in six offenses.
 The offenses enumerated by the com pany are for the arrest and conviction of each person guilty of shooting into a car on the Pickett Springs line on the night of April 2: of shooting into a car on the Cloverdale line on the night of April II; of shooting into car on Oak Park line on the night of April II; for placing dynamite on Jackson Street line or the night of April 20; of placing dynamite on West End line on the night of April 21.