The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-29
MASKED MEN
ROB A HOME
Burglars in a Selma
Residence.
IN. F0wlKEs IS AWAKENED
intruders Point Pistol and Take
valuables.
VAen cAlsrefsrn n Admisistered and
the TAisves Mako Their Escape.
News sf the central
=. FowlKEs IS AWAKENED

Selma. July zS-<Spocle1. 1.-TWO
white burglars. wearing black masks
ana carrying pistols. hello up Allie
fFowlKes In his room at the residence
= his mother, Mrs. 9. A Fowifea cor
lner Of Dallas aud Mabry Stress. this
morning about o'clock.
while one of the burglars held his
pistol against the body OF the young
man as he laid in bed. the other ran
sacked the room for valuaoies. Inc
one who held the pistol against MT.
sFowikes then administered chloroform
10 him, and after searching the room
az Miss Madeline Fowlkes. they made
their escape. They secured two finger
rings and some stick pins from the
room of Miss Fowlkes. ).
i Mr.. Fowikess room IL on the second
fsoor Of the residence. He said he was
awakened this morning about o'clock
BY hearing the door to the room creSk
Then he saw ut open. Just then the
street light flashed up and he saw
. tall. clean shaven white man. wearing
a black mask. standing Ia front Of bis
he'd holding q pistol In his face. The
second burglar. Mr.. Fowlkes states. he
did not see. but he heard him go around
the bed and sit down on IL at his back
against which he poked his pistol. the
other burglar then began to ransack
the room, but nothing Of value was
ing to bed, had put his watch behind
picture on the mantle.
When he ala not md anything OF
value DURING his first search OF the
room. the burglar made . second thor
ough search. while the one who Ella the
pistol against Is back slipped his hand
beneath the pillows to see II MT.
rowikes az placed his watch or money
there. In the meantime. Mr. Fowikes
thinks the chioroform or some other
narcotic was administered to him, for
he fell asleep. and when he awoke THIS
Morning he was nauBeated.
The burglars are believed to have
crossed the hall TO Miss Fowlkes's
room. where they found the rings and
stick pins. Mas Fowikes did not oc-
cupy her room last night, but Slept
down stairs in the room with her
mother.
An attempt was made q few weeks
ago to rob the Fowikes residence. and
IL Is believed that the attempt was
made by the same two white men who
entered II last night. On that occasion
the burglars were seen by Miss
Fowfkes. who screamed and awoke her
brother, but the men were scared away
before Mr.. Fowlkes sew Them
Back from Elks, Convenffon.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Patterson returned
20 their home In Selma last night from
Los Angeles and other points in the
aWest. Mr. Patterson represented Sell
ana Lodge No. 161, D. r. o. Elks at
EAhe meeting Of the Grand Lodge In Los
Apgelss.
Ii roux waite Hen Fine6.
Cases against four young white men
were heard BY Recorder Vaughan du-
fling the session Of police court this
morning. which grew out Of diniculties
(which occurred about two weeks ago.
The hrst cases heard were against W.
b. Blackwell. Charles Hinson and Fred
Zones and fine Of SIS ana costs was
assessed against each OF the young
men. The other cases were against w.
u. Blackwell and c. II. Wells and both
were fned $40 and ooHrA