The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-12
MAY BRING
BL0ODHOUNDS.
In Effort to Stop Street
Car 0utrages.
TO CATCH THE CRIMINALS
Traction Company Will Go to the
Extreme Limit.
Business Men Complain that Recent
Attacks ON Cars Has Resulted
I'm Great Loss Of

| All else having failed, bloodhounds
| may be brought TO ntgomery In an
! effort to catch criminals who have been
| guilty of placing dynamite on the street
| car tracks and shooting into cars.
we have been doing all we can. to
| find the guilty parties said Chief of
| Police Taylor yesterday, but we can
| not be every place at the same time.
have day men doing night duty as the
| extra men placed on during the heighth
| of the trouble have been taken off.
| do not think hounds would be sue
| cess and even If they might prove to be
l do not know where we could get the
dogs"
i j. D. Brown, who is a special officer,
and who has been looking after the
| interests of the Traction Company ever
since the strike, started in an effort to
protect the property of the company.
said last night that he had used blood
hounds with success in other cities,
and that he had captured law-breakers
through the aid of the dogs who had
been searched for by the police and
in Montgomery.
Il was employed to go to San AHto-
MO, Tex, to protect the interests of
the street car company there, where
strike was on, and after other efforts
had been tried without avail, we used
bloodhounds. Cars had been blown to
pieces just as they have been done here.
These dogs were placed on the trail
one night twenty minutes after dyna-
mite had been placed on the tracks and
car wrecked. By the aid of the
hounds We captured the man who was
behind all the trouble with stick of
dynamite in his pocket. He proved to
be the President of local union. He
was tried, found guilty, and sent to
the penitentiary.
1T is not difficult to secure these
bloodhounds, continued Mr.. Brown
and while do not think 1t is the duty
| of the Traction Company to secure the
dogs, the company will probably do so
If things become worse and the city
will not take the initiative"
'peciai Officer oe PEBBLES said yes
terday that he thought some of the par
ties who had been guilty of the out
RACES would-be caught land that inform
| alton had been received by special Off
GERS which would probably lead them
to make captures Il believe l can
place my hands on some of the men who
are doing the work, but we do not want
10 make any move until we have evil
| dence 60 convict"
Business men assert that on account
OF the continuation of these street car
outrages. they have suffered greatly and
many OF them are willing to offer an ex-
ira reward for the apprehension of the
| criminals,
Whether the strikers or the strike
| sympathisers are guilty, makes no diff
ference to u.s." said a merchant yes
terday. The fact remains that we are
| losing lot of money on account of the
| continuation of this outrage against the
peace of the city. The people are
| afraid to get on the cars during the eve
ming to come TO the stores to make their
n f.~fIr
| traction Company considerable cash.
and 1t has cost the business men much
money in addition to that. 1t looks like
1t is up to somebody to put stop to
this sort of thing"
Since the departure of f. G. Curry.
who was known as the "strike-breaker''
things have grown worse instead of bet
ter. but people who said that 1t was
| Curry who was blowing up the cars.
hardly know what explanation to make
OF the recent outrages. BY thinking
people, such a proposition as the cars
being blown up by the Traction Com
pany to excite sympathy or by Curry,
| to retain his position at so much a day.
as lon4; as the strike lasted, was regard
ed as absurd from the first.
| The summer park season Is now
| coming on" said Traction official,
| and we will lose thousands of dollars
If these attacks against the street cars
continue. because the people will he
afraid to ride on the cars at night to go
to the parks. The excitement had died
out for a time and the cars were being
literally patrunlzed. 1t does not stand
to reason that we would want TO start
1t over again to gain sympathy
| so faras Curry in concerned he re-
| ceives a salary all the year round from
7. D. Brown. who has a contract to
| look after the property OF a number of
different street RAILWAYS companies - so
1t does not make any difference to Curry
how long any particular strike may
| continue.
| General Manager Ragland Is out of
| the city. and when he rteurns there
will be movement made to apprehend
those guilty of street car outrages, as
the company will spare no expense to
| capture the criminals"