The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-12
FINLEY'S WATCH FOUND IN
 POSSESSION OF PRISONER
Blood Stains Found on Shirt os Accused Black.
Frend Who Struck Fatal 6ashen Thought to be i'm Custody sf the Law--search Continued for
 Accomplice.

In the county Jail, charged with tn savage and brutal murder Of !. A. Fin Icy, while a damning mass of cirouml' stantiai evidence is gathering agains him. The police department of Mont gomery is confident 1t has enough ~ idence to draw tho negro to the gal lows, and their efforts are now dsvcte' to the task of ascsrtaining if he hal any accompIiees in the ficndish butch cry of Saturday night. when the ycunl white man was hacked to death witt inconceivable brutality.
 / When Finley was last seen, he wa with the negro Coleman. colernal know the young white man had In hi pocket a good watch and fifteen dol lars in three s5 bills. Ths watch . the dead man and the tell tale charn on the chain were found on coleman' bureau when he was arrested at hi home on Corbett street early yester day morning. The shirt he attelnptei to put on him when tho officers rousel him from his bed. had blood stains oi each sleeve. with a bloody spot on Il front. Under the nails of the negrl where they join the flesh on top,
 blood was found
 The case of circumstantial evi
 seems complete even to the findi motive. Mr. Finley and the worked together at the whplesa 4 quor house Of B. Aaibnrn laaf ss AS a result If soma impndsnec
 Finley by the negro, the wnlle
 tnrasned him ana ran hlm out store.
 ReRutatton is URszvofs.
 The negro's record and repu
 are unsavory. he has been knVt
 the police and the white men
 neighbornood in which he iived
 m giving him a Dad name, nii appearance ia the recorders couf a result of a mock marriage wi old negro woman named Aoercrt Tn the hope of netting mold of
 money the old woman was suppos have. In the mock marriage O old woman. who is so years oi
 Coleman took the part of the gro.
 The police are no. prepaasa to, Coleman was alone when ne comnitte the dreadful act. Nor are they wtllin to say he had aecomp.ices. But of on thing they are conndent--that the have the man who piled with devils energy the knife that gashed and mu tilated the head of J. A. Finley. Si other negroes are under arrest. an as the net gathers around corbin Cole man, 1t may draw into It's fneshes oil or more of the frightened prisoner who are at police headquarters.
 It was possible for the negro alon and single handed to have done fA deed. When the two, the suppose murderer and his victim, were last seci together, Finley was so intoxicated X to have been helpless. He could hav been helped and guided to the remot spot on lonely road where the bod, was found. by one man. One mai could have sat upon his chest, witl his knees upon the arms of the haip less man and furiously stabbed hir, again and again. In the still hours Q the morning, at that lonely place, fhl murderer could have gone about hl horrible task without fear of interrnp. ton.
 Wrists May Have Been Held.
 But on the wrist of the dead maf there were found prints and bruisea as if his hands had been held whil. the knife was at It's deadly work. Thal there are no stabs and cuts in th, hands as there would have been hal the victim been able to exercise fhl normal instincts of a man and ward oA the weapon from his head, Is taken al proof the deail man was either hefe or was helpless, when the savage mur, derer was at his work.
 But the murderer himself could hnv, pinioned and bruised one wrist wifi with his free hand while the knlf. was hacking and stabbinK.
 Finley was conscious when the mur, derer began his work. Of the f6rty, five knife stabs. a number are on tog of his head. Several are upon his fore, head, and most of them are above ths eyes. It seems evident he saw ths deadly blows as they were poised. ana that he lodged his head downward NhNAi AAAAOf AhsRtAANhANCAs HAAtEEtAAk Uli eyes, his throat and the more vita part of his head. offering to the de- scending knife the stronger defense 0, his skull. as
 In time. it is thought. this strugglini victim was incapable of even this in, stinctive and ho?el-ss defense. Thi murdered, in time, felt the horrible sat. isfaction of the knife slipping into thl soft throat of his victim. As he fe1i it sink In under the chin. he tnrnet the knife through the unresfsting iesi and cut an awful circular gash tha, severed the iugu!ar vein. The tasl was done then. and the murderer has only to slip away In the darkness
 Met In Fishers Bar.
 The prelude to the tragedy, the DO, lice believe, was the meeting of the supposed murderer and his victim n Fishers bar. There were somc othel negroes present at this meeting. and ii Is unfortunate for them if they are Innocent of any connection with the crime. for some have been arrested and others are being sought. One of thess
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