The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-13
WOULDBE HERO OF DIME NOVEL Young Bandit Tanned Spec
 tsg<1ar Scene. BANKS CONDITION SERIOUS Boy Must Answer For Death sl
 Cashier. Haa Prepared Cabinet at Father's House h which he Expected to
 Make Escape h F'reight
 Csr-Grana Jury
 VIII Investigate.

ss -" Louisville, Ky, Nov. 12.-The condi- ton of John K. woodward. president I of the Merchants National Bank. of New Albany. and James W. Tucker. | the negro chauffeur. who were wound- 1 ed yesterday by Thomas Jefferson HoaL the boy bandit, of Louisville. in the llatter.s sensational attempt to rob the
 bank. was practically unchanged to- day.
 President Woodward Is in a serious condition and his physicians are sfn- clfned to be non-committal on the case. The negro Is not expected to live. Hoal.
 the bandit. who will have to answer | later for the murder of J. Hungary. the cashier of the bank takes his arr rest coolly. His stepmother. who yis- | ited him early today, was asked what sort of novels the boy read.
 ssOh, don't know their names" was the reply. "but he always kept three or four new ones in the house. As fast as one was read he would trade | 1t for another. He was never without them"
 The boys father says the lad is not l insane. "He Is just mean"
 His attempt to emulate his ideal of dime novel heroes is the only expia- nation for Hoais deed advanced thus far by the police.
 The processes of the boys mind are best shown by a look Into the infe- rior of the large cabinet, made out of dry goods box, which he constructed at his fathers house here, and in which he Is believed to have expected to es- | eas,A from I0uisyffIe.
 This box had a door on one side. lswinging on hinges. Within was q snug little room, lined so as to be wa- terproof and containing a rough bed. There was also five-gallon can of water, receptacle for food. a bag filled with dark lanterns, false whis- kers and other bandit" paraphernalia.
 sury win xnvesfsRate. Judge W. (. utx. of the Circuit Court today convened the Floyd Coun- ify. Ind. grand fury and fl1structed them to examine into yesterdays trag-
 edy. Judge Utx charged the jury to l give particular attention to all fea- l lures of the case, but especially to
 young Hoai. as the young bandit now l says his name is spelled. and to Alexs ] ander, the negro bank porter. who was arrested last night. The jury will re- | main in session until some findings are made. The prisoner will be kept at the l Jeffersonville reformatory until the ex-
 citement of New Albany has subsided. It developed today that Hoal had ar ranged with negro express man to
 be at his fathers store on Preston Street at noon yesterday to take a box
 of freight to the Louisville and Nash vilie depot. This is supposed to be | the box in which Hoai had arranged to
 make his escape.
 | The boy admitted today that he had read the accounts of the robbery of a | bank in Chicago about ten days ago
 by a man who escaped in an autonio- bile, but later committed suicide, and
 had planned his deed as near in dupii- | cate as he could arrange the details. l Negro Janitor Suspected. | New Albany. Ind, Nov. i2.-The ne. gro 5anitor of the Merchants National Bank. Henry Alexander. was arrested
 today pending an investigation into this reported compftcity with Thomas Jeff .ferson ffoal in an attempt to rob the bank yesterday. The negro admitted | the boy through a rear door of the bank. He says he was compelled to | do so.
 The police will attempt 10 show that Alexander and James W. Tucker, the
 negro chauffeur. were in conspiracy l with Hall, or foai, to rob the bank
 and that the shooting of Tucker was accidental.
 Tucker is said to have run from the
 bank after the shooting, dropping 8 | gunny sack on the sidewalk and seek. ing refuge in a drug store.
 | May Zimmerman, a laundry clerk, told the police that she saw the young
 bandit and the negro chauffeur talk I a.l. G..G sy. in which they came from Louisville.
 Two young. women dry goods clerks
 declared to the police that just before
 the shooting they saw young man holding a revolver standing with two
 colored men at the bank door.
 Bank employees say that Alexander
 the negro janitor, called for a revolver before Hoal began to shoot. Thinks HOaI Degenerate. Jeffersonville, Ind, Nov. 12-Dr. | Peyton, superintendent of the state re- l formatory, where Thomas Jefferson Hoal is confined, examined the boy
 this afternoon and said that he found | him a moral and physical degenerate of extraordinarily low type.
 Hoal denied that he had accomplices. | He said he was sorry he had shot | anyone" and that he should not have | fired If the men in the bank had not | come at him."
 | HoaI said he had hoped to get at | least $500 on first demand to return | to Louisville and to escape in the box | he had arranged to have shipped to | Knoxville, Tenn.
 Record In Knoxville. | Knoxville, Tenn, Nov 12.--Thomas l Jefferson Hoal, the boy bandit of New | Albany, Ind, was in this city last
 Tuesday accompanied by Q younger
 brother. Bradley. The latter called at
 the home of a Mrs Troutman, who was
 A neighbor of the Hoal family when
 they resided in this city.
 The younger brother told Mrs.
 Troutman that they were then on | their way to Louisville. The Hoals,
 father and son. left Knoxville five or
 six months ago. At that time the
 second Mrs. Hoal was visiting at the
 home of her mother in the country.
 Upon her return she found the home
 broken up, all the furniture and her
 own possessions gone. and her hus-
 band and Thomas missing. She ap-
 piled to the police who made an effort to locate her husband and Thomas. | hut they could learn nothing except that they had bought tickets to Cln-
 cinnati She then turned the case over 1 to a local detective who located the