The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-21
MEN CONFESS
 TO ROBBERIES Negroes Canght by Local
 Police. FIVE CHARGES ARE DOCKETE They Lead Police a Chase Before Capture. Nesroe. Tell of rheii I.te.tions s.d Manner Of carryins oss, wnl
 Bs Charged With High
 w.y Ressery.
FIVE CHARGES ARE DOCKETED


 miles about the outskirts of Montgom- meals at the point of pistol, captured, identified and fully confessing to ev- cry crime believed tc be theirs. Is the twenty four-hour record of Mack Woot- en and Win Bryant, two negroes now In the city jail with four cnarges of highway robbery opposite their names and fifth to go against them yet.
 The robbertes:
 !. c. Bozeman. of Tillery's store near Washington Park. 100 o'clock Friday evening, secured nothing.
 A. ]. Cox. 44s Bell street, s:15 o'clock Friday evening. secured no money. Tom Duncan, a negro. near Jackson's ferry. 500 o'clock saturday morning. secured $2.75 and knife.
 Henry Kennedy. negro ferryman at Jackson's ferry. S:l5 Saturday morning. secured ono dollar and a pocket knife,
 Willis Davis. farmer from snow doun. Thursday afternoon, secured watch. s2.75 and horse and wagon. K The first notice tc the police of the renewed activities of the highway men came by telephone Friday night Whom ]. c. Bozeman, of Tiliery's store near Washington Park notified police headquarters that two negroes had come to his place and at the point of pistol had ordered him to give up all the money in the cash drawer. but were frightened away before securing any money.
 Double three" the burglar call Of the police force was rung and every mounted man of the force was hurried to the scene and the bloodhounds from the county jail were also put on the trail. Before the oficers had completed an investigation. of this case the call from Cox's store. AS Bell street. came in, and the mounted men were transferred to that part of the city.
 A complete cordon of police was drawn about West and North Montgom- cry and the police declared themselves confident of the ultimate capture of the men believing their escape to be impossible.
 The next news of the negroes came from Jackson's ferry $500 o'clock Sat urday morning the report being that Kennedy, the negro ferryman. and Tom 1 Duncan. another negro in that neigh borhood had been held up and robbed. Double Three" was again rung and 1 the hurrying of mounted policemen to
 headquarters through the crowded streets Of the city startled the people 4 and made them wonder,
 EOllE8 anu tHG HuGNttl uk0OuiVuHQ7 | were rushed ctlS the Scene 6f the latest l robbery and Chief of Police Taylor and l heavily armed posse sped to the fer ! ry in an automcbile. The traii of the 1 negroes was taken up close to the fer ! ry and followed to the fair grounds. At the fair grounds the robbers stopped at a negro house and at the point of a pistol demanded breakfast. They and I the terror stricken negro woman who | fed them watched the pursuing officers
 as they passed a few hundred yards away.
 Here the negroes separated, one of I them, Will Bryant alias Allen. return | ing to the city and the other, Mack l wooten. running towards the river. | wooten was captured at fs3o. as he was l running down the river biun. by Viii 1 liam Cartwright. who held him until l Mr. Strickland could notify the police. 1 who were soon at hand to take him in f charge.& tlfats v ss!Fa i At police headauarters Wooten was I closely questioned. but divulged foth- ling definite concerning the whereabouts of his partner and stcutiy maintained | his own innocence, but clues were se- I cured from him sufficient to warrant 1 the placing of Special Detective Payne and Avant on the trail of the other l man. m Lead Long Chase. I The hunt for Bryant alias Allen led the detectives from the fair grounds | back near the scene of the hold-up at Cox's store. and he was eventually run l to the earth in a negro woman's cabin l In that neighborhood.
 l The negroes were brought face to l face at the city Jail and each confessed l to every robbery of which the two
 were suspected. When one talked. the other corrected him as to details and their actions for the past week were laid bare to the police.
 Mr Bozeman and MT. Cox were sent for and fully identified both negroes as the men who held them up. The negroes, Kennedy and Duncan. also fully identified them, and Willis Davis, the Showdown farmer. will be brought in to see them and complete the chain.
 Wooten tells the story of the swift twenty four hours work of himself and companion beginning with the time he first reached Montgomery. Nov. 12. He says that he comes from Norfolk Va.
 According to wooten. he and Bryant met here in Montgomery Nov. IS, the day of the robbery of Willis Davis. and that robbery was the first act in their short drama of crime in Montgomery. They did not again attempt to rob any one until Friday night, when the money secured from Mir. Davis gave out and then they decided to hold up the Til- lery store. Here they were frightened away. securing nothing.
 The attempt on Cox's place was their next deed. and again they met with rebuff and ned empty handed. but de- termined to try once more. They heard the bloodhounds on their trail, and made for the country about North Montgomery. but saw no chance toi rob until they met the two negroes at JaciGson's Ferry Saturday morning.
 Duncan was the first to suffer Sat urday morning and from him they got $2.72 and his booked knife. Becoming frightened, they decided to cross the river, and. calling Kennedy. the ferry man. they demanded to be rowed across the Alabama. He was then coming towards them from the other side of the river and when he stepped ashore he faced the pistol held by wooten, who demanded his money. He gave up his money with reluctance. and Da- wis or Allen showed him into the river and wooten shot at him while in the water.
 The penalty in Alabama for highway robbery is not less than ten years in the penitentiary or death.
 The negroes will be given a prelim-
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