The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-25
MYSTERY
 REMAINS No New Developments In Spiegel Case POLICE ARE STILL ACTIVE Experienced Criminal Evidently Committed Deed. SAsery That Several Were Implicated [. Double xiIiins Gaining Cree ssnee in omciai Circles at
 Police Hesssuarter..
 

The little store in East Montgomery where Toe Spiegel and, Abraham Gold stein were slain tonight a week ago ls closed new. 4 big new paddock is on each door. and the windows have been nailed down. The place is as silent as the mystery. that surrounds it. for 90 far not one clue that would lead to . capture has been found to point to the identity of the murderers.
 By day the house Is an object for speculative staring by passers by. at night tt is given wide berth. The front steps. the former gathering place for negroes after working hours. gre deserted at all times now. The wind means orninousiy in the naked chimney tops. An uncanny quiet has settled over the corner. subduing the nofses of the neighborhood. and lights burn until very late hours in adjoining homes. When dark falls the doors thereabouts are bolted early and no sign of life shows within except the rays of lights coming through the chinxs in the doors.
 The identity of the murderers is still only, surmise on the part of the eu- thorities. additional theories are still cropping up. but now the general trend of opinion is to lay the deed at the door of former patrons of the place, since MrG Spiegei told of so many GUS
  kept. Gradually theory after theory Is, being eliminated: ideas that at first stood out like self-evijent, glaring facts, have been cast aside as un- worthy of attention. The sufferers In she tragedy have been exonerated from all thought of home disturb ence. and now every energy Is being bent to locate the perpetrators of the deed It Is generally conceded that Deteetixe Chief Payne. and his men can solve the mystery If any can, for they are familiar with the locality, the case, and the habits of Alabama negroes. But day after day the officers search only to find they have been on another blind trail.
 One or two things remain. however. that will stand continued work, and that Is the presence of the bloody check on Hall street, and later piece If information that has been picked up that two men were seen hanging about the vicinity of the shop the night of the murder. Whether these men were white or black cannot be learned, for those who saw them pass ed them at night. and last Monday night was very dark.
 1t is hardly believed by the police that the murderers were noyices in arfme. The exceptional aim as dis nlayed by the wounds, and the fact that so little evidence was left 70 De worked on as a cine, points strongly Q experienced felons The rapid work he volley of fatal shots the seizure f the money. and the rapid disappear e nee, all point to a planned attack by len who were familiar with the work. t was the most business like piece Of rIme that has been accomplished in
 .ontgomery in years, thorough, com. , etc and mysterious, such as 1t would Y impossible. practically, for novices carry out
 one other statement that is now not p lieved is that Of the negroes who i'd they saw a pistol in Goldstein's
 nd Certainly the negroe swho told
 1t dii not remove it ,and Mrs Spieg-
 had no reason for taking it away
 e felons would not take the risk of returning for It. if Goldsteip had the pistol. and innocent parties would not interfere in such a case
 But ono conclusion remains. if 1t is fo be tolerated. and that is the mur- derers had accomplices. Mrs. Spiegel saw but two men, possibly the work was done by several, some keeping watch while the two who entered the 7 house, killed the men and secured the mony. This idea Is gaining credence in the minds of the men working on the case, and may account for many things About half an hour elapsed af. ter the killing before the police reach ed the scene, and that time allowed the felons to make good their escape. But by many 1t is cnnSldered odd that in so thickly settled Q neighborhood no one got line of any kind that would lead to an arrest through