The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
GOOD HAUL IS MADE
POLICE DO ExcELLENT WORK SAT-
 UHDAY MORNING.
Box Car Thieves Are Defeeted, Made
 te confess, aaG Are Locked .I Up in City Bnr-

Accusing his pal of having played
 lra false, Eugene She'll. white man years old. confessed to having robbed freight cars in the yard of the Western of Aiabama Railroad. and in his confession Implicated Lee Hines. 21 years old. also white. Both men are well known to the police. and have been under surveillance for some time. She'll has served a term in the peni- tentiary for stealing . horse from q negro woman. Annie Smith. several years ago, and Hines has been tried Tn Police Court on charges of steal. ing cotton seed meal and chickens.
 Last Monday night, october 22. . sixty-nine pairs of stockings, eleven cases of tobacco. two cheeses, and two sides of meat were taken out, the pIunder being divided by the thieves under light in the yard of the Lou- isville and Nsshville Railroad yard, several hundred yards away from the scene Of the depreciation.
 Policemen. Ragiand and Taylor and Special Officer YarbrouEh of the raii- way went to work on the case. and Friday morning arrested the men named near the place where the rob. bery was committed. The prisoners were brought to headquarters. but de- nied positively any knowledge of the matter. The evidence the officers had was almost conclusive. but for some time they could not Ind out what had been done with the stolen goods. Sus. picion led to D. A Carroll, a grocer who has a store on North Court Street, between the l.. and N. shops and the plant of the Atiautic Compress Com. pany. Yarbrough went there to see him, but did not get satisfactory re. suits.
 Captain Miles Smith of the police force, atfer a consultation with the officers. decided on Q bold stroke. A search warrant was secured from Jus tice of the Peace Bowling Young. and accompanied by ofacers Patrick, Young rolls store Friday midnight. Carroll was awakened and questioned about the matter He stoutly denied any connection and said he only knew the thieves by sight. Unsatisfed, Captain Smith decided to search the store. and the dfst thing he came across was a lot of stockinsss He asked Carroll where they came from and was told that they had been purchased from the A. We'll store and that there were fifty pairs in the lot. The mention of the number of pairs proved Carrolrs undoing. for the stockings were count ed and there were just sixty-nine pairs. CarfotI was at IoBS Tor an eXpiana- tion and was taken in custody.
 Captain Smith told him plainly that he was 8 candidate for the penitAnti- ary and Carroll weakened. He admit ted having bought the stun from She'll and Hines. but said he did not believe 1t was stolen. He denied all knowi. edge of the tobacco and meat. He was taken on to the city lookup and after spending a few hours in a cell. called Sergeant Morrell and said he would make confession. He was taken to the kitchen ana under the influence of a cup cf coffee, told where the other things were. Some of the tobacco was found near the Excelsior Brick Company's plant, wrapped ia a sack. and another lot was found near the Atlantic Compress Company's yards. He said he had the meat and cheese in hts store.
 After. this confession. Shell and Hines were brought ont. faced with the matter and they also confessed, Shell accusing Hines of having he. trayed him. He said honesty had been known among thieves, but there was none at all iIi Hines. for while he was going back for a second load. Hines had stolen what they had aot- ten at the first haul. A preliminary