The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-24
HELD FUR MURDER
 OF STEPFATHER Dynamiting Case Causes Big Stir In Chattanooga DEED IS WELL PLANNED Young Man Is Arrested and Held on Circumstantial Evidence-Efforts
 Will Be Made to Develop
 Small Streams.
DEED IS WELL PLANNED

Chattanooga. April 2S.-tspecial)-T. M,
 Bell, step-son of the murdered man. was
 arrested here on a charge of murdering
 Rudolph Buo, who was killed by the ex-
 plosion of stick of dynamite under his
 house late Wednesday night. Full investigation by the officers shows
 that the murder was most carefully
 planned. The murderer secured a stick of dynamite and a fuse about 30 feet
 long. He placed the dynamite, to all in- dieations. Immediately under the room where MT. and Mrs. Buol were sleeping,
 encasing it between a sleeper" and the
 floor. That done he strung the fuse to the corner of the house, where he lighted
 it on a stone The burning of the long fuse gave him probably ten minutes in
 which to make his getaway. The explosion tore the bed on which Buol was sleeping into splinters and scat
 tered the feathers from the tick over
 the room. Buol was killed instantly, but the mysterious and wonderful part of the tragedy was that his wife. who was sleep
 ing in the same bed, according to her | story, escaped without a scratch, notwth- standing the fact that the section If the house where she was, was practically demolished by the shock of the explo- sion.
 The police have only circumstantial ev-
 dence against Bell. It is known that there
 was trouble in the Buol family yesterday,
 and that Bell had been disinherlted Bell
 has to date been unable to account for his whereabouts last night within an hour be- fore and after the murder There is soma | lofPN t1 murder also, but she has not been appre- hended. There Is considerable excitement
 here ovr the tragdy, as Buol was some
 thing of a town hero. It was he who cap
 tured Sylvester Harris, the famous high
 wayman. Harris had terrorized Chatta- nooga for weeks and weeks One night he tried to hold Buol up and the latter
 knocked his pistol out of his hand and carried the desperado captive to the po- 1 lice station. For this part of heroic work Buol was voted 8 handsome gold watch by citizens of the city.
 Citizens of Hamilton and Marion coun- 1 ties are circulating a petition to the gov ernment to make an appropriation for the developing of Chickamauga creek and other small streams just above Chatta-
 no0ga.
 The claim is made that when the lock | ana dam below chattanooga Is completed i the water in the Tennessee will go to such
 a high level that these streams will be
 made navigable for ordinary craft for @
 considerable portion of their length. Only
 a moderate appropriation will be asked i for.
 1 The movement Is of great importance,
 as it will afford transportation for a num- i Der of large coal mines that have hither- l to been dependent on small railroad
 service over roads composed mainly of
 steep grades.
 1 Ga, arrived in this city after Milton 1 Parks, a negro, who is under indictment 1 at Zebulon, Ga. on a charge of larceny. l The negro stated that he would rather die l than return to Georgia, however and the
 sheriff is in communication with Gov M. R. Patterson in an effort to get requisi-
 tion papers.
 James Chaig. a machinist employed at
 a local plant, was killed here yesterday afternoon by a switch engine of the Belt 1 railway. He came to this city about eight years ago, but worked for several years,
 and up until a few weeks ago in Angus 1 ta, Ga., in the Southern railway shops.
 big mining deal was eonsummated in ] Chattanooga today when the Marsh ore 1 property. a few miles south Of Chattanoo-
 ga. passed into new hands. The deal was
 a secret one, and the local attorneys who l pulled 1t off refuse to divulge any infor- i nation concerning if.