Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
County Police and Posses Of Cit-
zens Scour Vicinity for Desper-
ado-Take Several Suspects,
but No Definite Proof Is Found.
N, C. 4 St. L. Sends Best De-
tectives to Make Investigation.
Robber Believed to Have Hidden
Plumber Near Scene Of Holdup.

Following the sensational holdup
of a Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis train near Atlanta Friday night,
when a lone bandit appeared sudden
w in a Pullman car and held its oc
cupants at the point of a revolver
while he robbed them of $3.50 and
some 1ewelry. posses of Fulton Coun
ty police and citizens are securing the
vicinity with bloodhounds to capture
che desperate.
Already several men have been
taken into custody as supects and are
being put through severe oss-exanl-
nations. SO far, however, no definite
evidence has been secured against
any of them.
Suspect Famous Bandit.
, Principal among the theories ad-
vanced was one that led to the belief
that a famous Western train robber
who had just escaped from st. Louis
prison was implicated in the robbery.
John Nolan, the suspect held in
the Tower, strongly resembled the es-
capped convict. according to Detective
Bob Waggoner, at work upon the
case. However. 1t is thought the
Western train robber may have been
the local outlaws pal.
ST. Louis officials notified the At
lanta department to be on the look
ont for the convict, whose name was
given as Oliver.
The tracks showed the robbor sid
as he dropped off the rear platform
OF the train. The footprints were
fairly plain until they got on the
hard ground. and then they disap-
peared entirely. There was no way 10
pick them up except through the
work of bloodhounds.
The police secured all of tho ground
in the vicinity of the tracks and the
adjoining woods in an effort to md
some further clew. They were Of the
opinion that the robber probably had
hid his plumber somewhere near the
place as he jumped off the train so as
to have no discriminating evidence on
him II captured.
Policeman williams late IN the
forenoon came upon the pocketbook
near the place Nolan had been ar
rested the night before. It was empty
and there was no way Of ascertainfrg
the person to whom It belonged.
Boodhounds on Trail.
He called up Chief Mathieson, and
was instructed to come into head
quarters with his find. The holdup
victims will be called in to identify 1t.
Arrangements were made as soon
as the footprints We're discovered to
take Nolan's shoes to the spot and to
put the bloodhounds. on the trail
Chief Mathieson feared that the scent
might be cold by this time, but APP
peared inclined to make the test.
j. E. Jackson, the conductor of the
Pullman car on the train which was
the scene Of as daring robbery as
any OF the old Wild West days, was
confident that in John Nolan twhose
name was first printed as Jones) tn
police had the right man.
Nolan apparently was unperturbesl
Saturday as he sat in a cell at the
Tower and smilingly denied that he
is a "stick-up man." as he termed il,
MY name is John Nolan. | am 4
years old and am a carpenter by
trade" he said in response TO ques
lions by a reporter for The Georgian.
MY home is In Des Moines, which
place I left about a week and a half
ago to come South in search of
work"
Nolan had about IS 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