The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08

eiiC thiid sH tViu h1fl tffdt the stgovet pt.e ais -sr,ersonal guarantee rtnsS.- .-, agreement was all right and would F carried out in every particular All Na 4tis-stl,ree >ossl rerences i, were held at the Exchange hotel having been arranged by E. o. Miles. the de- tective whom the governor employed to find Lacy. MT. Miles was present at all of these conferences. The statement in full of MT. Pettus and MT. Patterson follows:
 ''In July. 1913, after MT. E. O. Miles, detective employed by the state of Ala baTa, in connection with the convict department irregularities, stated to us that his idea was to find Lacy through the family and friends, and that he had the governors approval of this plan, and in pursuance of this MT. Miles asked us if we would meet the governor and try and agree upon some basis for Lacy to return to Montgomery, provided we coud get in touch with hir1. or if at any time we could get In touch with him. We agreed to this, and at MT. Miles request we had conference with the governor Daniel w. Troy. E. o. Miles and Mir w. T. Seibels in a room at the Exchange hotel at night.
 Question Discussed
 During this conference, the question
 
 as the question whether he would re- turn any money. and what his attitude would be towards testifying in the case Of the state against James G. Oakley. We told the governor that we did not known where Lacy was and had no au- thority of any sort to act for him and that our action would be merely what we would recommend to Lacy should we at any time get in communication with him. After hnlIr's dig-ucci,>u a nm was reached and was written out in the handwriting of F. w. Pettus, read over by the governor and MT. Seibels and was agreed to. The original agree ment is in our possession at this time and is in words as follows:
 Must Give Up Money
 Lacy to come back to Montgomery and give up all the money he took less any reasonable amount that may have been expended by him for personal ex- penses, not exceeding $50OO to $1O,O0O, and he shall also tell to the governor. or his representatives, exactly what was done with the money outside of the court room but without any obligation on Lacy's part to testify against Oakley Then Oakley is to be tried first and after Oakley is tried, then Lacy is to either plead guilty in one case and take sentence of 1 year and 1 day and all other indictments to be disrnissel or Lacy can then plead not guilty and let the law take it's course as if this stipulation lad not been made
 ''The day after this agreement was made, at the suggestion of all parties, k. w. Pettus wrote to Daniel w. Troy, in which letter 1t was stated that this agreement had been reached. and the letter was Confirmation of the agree ment. It had been agreed verbally that this agreement should have force and eff feet from % days from the date on was written to MT. Troy, Mir. Troy spoke to MT. E. W. Pettus about the letter and about the time limit
 Got in Touch With Lacy
 Several months after this, in January, 1914. we communicated with MT. E. O. Miles and told him that we had gotten in communication with Lacy and would like tt have another conference over the matter and see what arrangement could be made. as there were some changes which we wished in the origi- nal agreement. MT. Miles came to Mont gomery and arranged conference in the Exchange hotel with the governor, Mir. Troy, Mfr. John Moffet and our selves, and he also agreed to have at this conference Mir W. T.. Seibels. but Mir. Seibels could not come to the con ference that morning and MT. Troy stated that he would represent Mir Sci bels. although any arrangement he made on the part of AIr. Sefbels would have to be confirmed by ii:m, before 1t be- came binding.
 I've then discussed the matter of Lacy's return. and had before us. the original agreement of July, 1913. and a new agree ment was written in pencil on the sta- ~>>>r~s>~-~~s%>>r-~>r-> '>-,.>>>>>->--<