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

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carpenter named George Smith out
there was in need Of help and went
out 10 see II | could connect with a
job
Couldn't Find Smith.
! didn't know Friday afternoon
when | went out that a car line ran
out that way, so went out on a
w & A train
When ] 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 10 Atlanta, was told street
car ran into the city and was walk
ing down to get q car when AT officer
Turned his nashlIght loose in my face
and asked me my name and where |
was going. | answered the questions
and asked what the matter was.
It's something serious, all rignt
one of them told me. 'Youn have 20
wait here bit until the chief comes
up
Wei, in a few minutes the chief
came up and told nc a bout 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 mon.
reckon it did look as though I
might have had hand in the thing"
he admitted, "Of course, no one
knows me and the fact that was in
the neighborhood makes it look sortor
funny But ! am sure l will be re-
leased when the stick-up is inves:i-
gated. ! am not worrying"
Nolan had about SO on his person
when searched after his arrest.
lie 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 visit
TO the Tower and given the prisoner
careful inspection.
The man in the car wore mask
and 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 like him il
he is not"
General Superintendent j, l.. Nc
Collum, of the Western and Atlantic,
raid Saturday morning that the i'm
pudence OF the bandit had momen-
tarily paralyzed the roads detectives,
bat that their inactivity was but for
a moment.
If il is within the power OF the
shrewdest thiet-takers in the country
to get this man, we will get him" de-
c,ared the official
We shan't offer a reward, not for
the present, anyway he continued.
we wish 10 have the credit of taking
him in tow without the aid of re-
ward II we can. or course, our agents
viii be assisted by the county ana
city police, and We will import other
men il it becomes necessary.
We shall spare neither time nor
money in our endeavor to land tins
rascal behind the bars where he be-
longs. our agents all along the line
are busy on the case already, and It
would not surprise me at any moment
10 hear the right party has been cap
tured"
Gun Battle Fought in Pullman.
None OF the men passengers or
fered any resistance. so taken by
surprise were they Four of them .lc-
iiVered $3.50 to the bandit The wom-
en- passengers were not asked 10 con-
tribute
The only resistance offered was
when Carl c. Heard county poliy>