The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-01
WOMAN BEING i
WATCHED BY
THE OFFICERS
100000 IN UNSIGNED BANK
NOTES ARE REPORTED
STOLEN.
HARRISON ADMITS IDENTITY
Police Net Is Rapidly Closing
In About Other Members of
Train Robber Gang in the
South.
HARRISON ADMITS IDENTITY

ATLANTA, March -Postoffice
inspectors who for weeks have been
trying to arrest members of the So
called Harrison gang" in connec-
ton with several train robberies. to-
day announced that the man in Jail
here known as Jim Bohannan' real
ly is Charles Harrison, one of three
brothers under arrest. This was an
nounced after efforts to definitely
connect Henry Grady Webb, a well
known young man of Atlanta and
Birmingham, had been completed in
the opinion of the inspectors. Webb
fled from Birmingham yesterday just
before the inspectors expected to ar
rest him. A message to arrest him
(fas sent broadcast over the south
ltday.
- Investigation of the robbery of
Baltimore and Ohio train near Cen
tIal Station, w Va, Oct 8. 1915, in
which about 100000 in unsigned
bank notes was stolen. led the Off
GERS from Grand Rapids to New Or
leans. 1t resulted in the arrest of
Jeff Harrison at San Antonio and
the recovery of about $4,000 OF
loot. the inspectors announce. IL
has since been taken to Parkers-
burg, w. Va, for trial.
Richard Harrison was arrested in
Grand Rapids and is in Jail here. Carl
Rentz, a nephew of the Harrisons,
~
sides here. 1t is charged that he was
implicated in the signing and .deliv-
cry of some of the notes to one Of
the Harrsons. Then Charles Harri-
son was arrested here.
During the course of their investi-
cations the officers have watched the
movements of woman widely
known in certain circles in New Or
leans, Trips she is said to have
made to Atlanta and Birmingham re
Gently. the inspectors believe, were
in connection with the case.
Webb who the inspectors say is the
brains" of the gang, had an office
in the American Trust company
building at Birmingham and ostensi-
blv was in the automobile appliance
business. under the firm name of the
R. and w Appliance company. In
corporation papers here show that
Rentz and Webb were the incorpo-
rators 6k the firm. Efforts of the
officers Ssascertain where the firm
ever saad' any appliances failed, they
said,
When Charles Harrison today was
confronted with the fact that his
identity was known he freely admit
ted it, the police say. They stated
that he told them he was not impli-
Gated in the Central Station robbery,
but he knew about it and had been
sticking up" his brothers and the
others for "hush" money
Bohannon's or Harrison's. confes-
sion will help the detectives TO re-
cover part of the stolen loot and may
lead them to the Whereabouts OF
Henry Grady Webb, said to be the
last member of the gang who is still
at large,
The police net is rapidly closing
about Webb. however, Atlanta detect
GIVES spending the greater part of to-
law shadowing the homes Of his moth.
Yr and sister in this city, believing
Aihat he will try to communicate with
kihem. Webb had been posing as a
Appointment real estate operator in Bir
fninehan until. THURSDAY when dis
patches from that city said he got
away Justin fine from detectives who
were about to arrest him and is now
headed for Atlanta.
His sister, detectives say. is Mrs
TalIulah J. Norton. OF No. 1 Orange
street. and his.smother lives at No
1g9 Capitol avenue. sHe is described
as thirty-three years old, five feet
ten inches tall, weight 1870 pounds