The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-15
DAYLIGHT HOLD UP
NEGROES ROB COLLECTOR IN
 SELMA AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M.
Afterward Caught by Onicers With DoEs--$45e Taken From Marcps Meyer Ny Negroes--News
 of Central City.

Selma, June 14.-tSpecial)-- )--Marcus Meyer, a collector for the Nathan Kahn wholesale Grocery Company, was held up and robbed by two ne- xroes near the race track in the northern part of the city this morning just about l0:3o o'clock.
 For several years 1t has been MT. Meyers custom to visit all or the re- tail grfcery stores around the city and make collections for the goods which had been sold during the past week. These collections are usually large and the two negroes who held him up this morning secured about S450 in cash and about the same amount in checks.
 MT. Meyer had just visited the store of Bud" Howard. negro. near the race track, and was driving towards the city when two negroes stopped him. One of the negroes placed pistol In his face and the other reached into the buggy and got the sachel in which MT. Meyer carried the money which he had collected during the trip around tine city.
 After securing the satchel contain ing the money the two highwaymen ran away towards the eastern part Of the city and up the track of the South. ern Railway towards Burnsviile. As 7 D6 COuEo ICdtA hCASPhOANt Mir. Never notified police headquarters of the robbery and officers went at once to the scene of the robbery with a bloodhound.
 With the aid of a negro stool pigeon, Police officer Bell late this afternoon, in the eastern part of the city. arrested Joe Lockhart and Tommy Craig ne groes. as the robbers. The police, with dogs, trailed the robbers from the northern part of the city to a swamp about a mile east of Selma, where the trail was lost.
 Ofacer Bell had evidently Been through considerable mud, as 1t was all over their clothes.
 After officer Bell reached headquar- ters with his prisoners, Mr. Meyer was sent for and after he arrived positively Identified one of the negroes, but was uncertain about the other.
 No money was found upon the two negroes when they were searched.
 The robbery is one of the boldest that has ever been committed in Selma. Tha uIace where 1t occurred is thickly settled by negroes and a large number of negro women who were nearby at tha time saw the two highwaymen hold m MT. Meyer and take the sachel con- tafning his collections.
 The news of the robbery caused considerable excitement, when It be- came known.
 White Man Cut.
 Tom Dhaoley, a white man, In light with a negro, Caesar Taryer, on the Smith place. five miles south or Selma. this morning badly carved the negro a number of times.
 sThere was a general fight among number of the negroes on the pisnta- tion. and when MT. Whatley trleu Io separate them. the Taryer negro mt him over the head with an oak stick. Mir whatley then pulled his knife and fegan cutting the negro. infiicting sew pral serious wounds.
 Mrs Sina Castleberry of HaVaha' Fla. was found sick at the union pas senger station this afternoon by capt I l.. Norris of the Salvation Army. Mrs. Castleberry was on her way 10 Meridian to visit her son. and took SICK while coming to Selma. and was In de,stiau condition. She, would not ro to an inf1rmary, and insisted upon Teturnings home, and was furnished transportation to Cuthhert, Ga
 Fixtures Are Arriving.
 About two car loads of the post office fixtures and furniture TOT the offices in the Federal building here have arrived and representative from the factory from which the fixtures were purchased is, expected here in tho next few days to put them up.
 The building is fast nearing comple- tiou and 1t is now expected that it will be ready for occupancy and turned over to the treasury department of the government by August 1 and soon thereafter the postofice here will movo into it.
 Chnncery Docket Taken Up.
 The second week of the City Court of Selma convened this morning at II