Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-17

Soulon = mo oH'tl.
Il didn't know Friday afternoon
when I went out that a car line ran
out that say, - vent out on
W & A. train
When I reached Bolton ! inquired
all about but couldn't get a line on
Smith. People out there said they
knew no such man.
about o'clock, when ! started
back to Atlanta, ! was told a street
car ran into the city and was walk
ing down TO get a car when an officer
turned his f1ashlight loose in my face
and asked me my name and where I
was going. I answered the questions
and asked what the matter was.
It's something serious, all right
one OF them told me. 'You1l have %
wait here a bit until the chief comes
up.
We'll in few minutes the chief
came up and told me about some guy
sticking up a train. That was the
first had heard of it, They brought
me on to Jail and here am"
Says He Is Not Worrying.
Nolan takes his arrest coolly and
smiled several times as he answered
questions put by the newspaper men.
Il reckon It did look as though ]
might have had a hand in the thing,
he admitted. "Of course, no one
knows me and the fact that I was in
the neighborhood makes It look sortor
funny. But l am sure I VIII be re
leased when the stlck-up Is investi-
gated. ! am not worrying"
Nolan had about 50 on his person
when searched after his arrest.
He declined to discuss his rela-
tives, merely saying he supposed most
Of them are dead.
This man Nolan, as he calls him
self said jackson Saturday" has the
same general appearance as the man
who pulled off the robbery" said the
conductor after he had paid a visit
10 the Tower and given the prisoner
careful inspection
Tho man in the car wore mask
ard couldn't see his face, OF course.
hut all his general outlines tally with
the man held at the county jail
couldn't, Of course, go so far as to
swear the prisoner is the man, but he
certainly looks very much Ike him IL
he is not"
Road Detectives Bus,
General Superintendent J. J.. Ne
Collum, Of the Western and Atlantic,
said Saturday morning that the i'm
pudeuce of the bandit had momen-
tarlly paralyzed the roads detectives,
but that their inactivity was but for
a moment.
II II is within the power OF the
shrewdest thief takers in the country
10 get this man, we will get him. de-
clared the official.
I'VE shan't offer a reward, not for
the present, anyway he continued.
we wish to have the credit of taking
him in tow without the aid of a re
ward II We can OF course, our agents
viii be assisted by the county ana
city police and we viii import other
men IL it becomes necessary,
we shall spare neither time nor
money in our endeavor TO land thus
rascal behind the bars where he be-
longs our agents all along the line
are busy on the case already, and II
would not surprise me al any moment
70 hear the right party has been cap
tured"
New Clew Found.
The county police learned Saturday
that a negro, Bill Brown. who works
about the depot at Bolton, saw a
strange man alight there Friday af.
crnoon from the Western and Atlantis
accommodation train, and, with his
overco Dat slung carelessly over his
shoulder. start out along the railroad
track in the direction of Winnings.
From a picture and description OF
the suspect Nolan, Brown said he and
the strange man were the same.
Brown viii be taken 10 the Tower by
County Policemen Williams and Allen
10 take look at Nolan.
with this new evidence IN hand, the
authorities are working on the theory
that Nolan left the accommodation at
Bolton and walked to Winnings in an
effort TO avert POSSIBLE suspicion, He
would have had ample time to walk
this distance. four miles, The accom-
mediation arrived at Bolton at $40
O'Clock. and passenger train No. /, on
which the robbery took place, passed
Winnings about 1910
The police think the man who
caused the train to be stopped ct
Winnings that he might alight was
probably a pal Of the robber.
Man on Train a Pal.
They also advance the opinion that
his man did not actually leave the
train at Winnings but secretd himself
on the rear platform until the bandit
had completed the job Under this
heory. the bandit rushed to the rear,
handed the loot 10 his hidden pal
and then both jumped to the ground
when the battle ceased going in OPP
posite irections.
The police say this would account
for no discriminating evidence being
found on Nolan
DR.. j. T. Cstron called at the Tow
er Saturday and identified Nolan as
one OF two mysterious men he saw
downtown Friday afternoon in his
FIVE passenger Ford automobile
which was stolen on December 8
from in front Of the Fourth National
KODAKING BY MAIL,