Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-23

passed to Harry Youngs entry into the
conversation. He was just about to tell
that Young mentioned the Armour Fer
tilizer company hold-up. when Judge
Hill interrupted his story with the
, aforementioned statement that he was
Inclined to rule the whole thing out.
THE ARMOUR HOLD-UP.
When Judge Hill gave his ruling,
which allowed Rogers TO go ahead with
his account of what he claimed to have
overheard on the photograph, Rogers
resumed his narrative.
Instead OF proceeding with what he
claimed Harry Young said at this point
i'm the conversation, he went back to
Yarter and related that Yarter, after
telling of the Hapeville hold-up, in
formed Mrs. Tyler that he also commit
ted the robbery of Paymaster Black, of
the Armour Fertilizer company.
According to Rogers, Yarter told Mrs.
Tyler that Harry Young was driving
Paymaster Black in a taxicab and he
tYarter, stepped out from ambush in
the trees near Piedmont avenue road
and covered them with biz gun and
took the paymasters money away from
him.
81 wasn't afraid of being identified -
Yarter told Mrs. Tyler, according to
Rogers. because Black and Young were
700 scared by the sight of the gun to
remember anything"
At this point. according to Rogers.
Mrs. Tyler asked Yarter what he would
do if she would bring him a man with
$1,000. to which Yarter replied. accord
ing to Rogers: "Show me a guy with
81. 900 and I'll crack him"
Continuing his narrative, Rogers said
Yarter went back to Mrs. Tvlers room
last Sunday night, and a man named
G. c. Carson came in and he and Yarter
had some words, and when Yarter left
the room he ran and was oyertaken by
policemen i'm an automobile and placed
under arrest ~
YARTER IDENTIFIED.
This concluded Rogers statement. and
the defense then introduced r. II. Mis-
bett, conductor, and r. W. Godfrey,
motorman, who were in charge of the
Hapeville car on which Paymaster Boy
kin rode from town on the morning when
he was robbed.
Both Nisbett and Godfrey testified
that Boots Rogers was not the man
who got off the car just behind Boykin,
and they both testified, when Yarter was
brought into court, that he was the man
VINO got off the car just behind Bovkin.
FOLLOWING the testimony of the con-
ductor and motorman, Detective Pat
Campbell who was with Boots Rogers
ana detective Starnes in the room last
Saturday night when the three of them
photographed Yarter, was put on the
stand as witness for inc defense.
campbell was about to launch into a
recital of what he claimed to have over
| heard Yarter tell Mrs. Tyler, when So
| licitor Boykin objected and was sus-
tained. Judge Hill ruled that Boots Rog-
ers' account of the alleged disclosures
| by Carter to Mrs. Tyler could stay in
the record, merely for what it was worth
as the defendants statement, not sworn
to, but that neither Starnes nor Camp
| bell could go into the dictograph affair
BOYKIN RAPS CAMPBELL.
Solicitor Boykin then asked Campbell
this question:
What evidence arising out of the in
vestigations you have made in this case
was reported to- the solicitors Officer"
None" replied Campbell, appearing
to be considerably embarrassed.
Then Hugh M, Dorsey jumped up and
said:
AT whose request did you Withhold
your information from the solicior?"
TO which Campbell replied: All
! yours, Mr.. Dorsey"
SOLICITOR ATTACKS WITNESS.
At the resumption Thursday morning
| of Rogers trial Solicitor John A.
Boykin tried TO prove by Andy Bray
an ex-convict, that Rogers said to him
IN visit to the convict camp where
he was then serving:
"Old boy, I've got a man to take the
I crime on his shoulders and I'm coming
out"
But when Bray went on the stand he
did not testify that Rogers made such
a statement to him, and Solicitor Boykin
| thereupon informed the court that he
had been entrapped.
Judge Ben H. Hill, presiding over the
/ trial. declared he could not see the
relevancy of such testimony. in view
of the fact that no second party assum-
ing responsibility for the hold-up had
appeared in the case.
/ Bray left the stand without giving any
material testimony
OTHER WITNESSES.
Joe Miller. chief of police. in East
! Point. was the first witness at Thursday
mornings session of the trial. He tes-
tilted that he got the call. notifying him
that Paymaster Boykin had been robbed,
at 1908 O'Clock on the morning of De-
cember 2. He said he sent two men to
the scene Of the holdup and himself pro-
ceeded toward Atlanta. He said he saw
no Ford car on Stewart avenue proceed
iiS lOWdTu AIldlla. VI lie state CONTENDS
that Rogers and his accomplice in the
robbery drove to Atlanta Immediately
after the robbery, taking the Stewart
avenue route).
George Mathieson, chief of the Fulton
county police force. was the next wit
ness. He testified that he saw Boots
Rogers and another man in a Ford car
at the corner of South Pryor and Hun
ter streets at 9:2O o'clock on the morning
of December 2 and that they were driv-
ing north. He testified that he rSmem-
bered the hour because when he arrived
in his office he was told of the robbery,
looked at the clock, and saw ii was 9:21
o'clock .He testified that the distance
from the scene OF the robbery to the
courthouse, where he saw Rogers, is 76
miles.
CONVICT GUARD.
Newton Brownlow, a convict guard
from the East Point camp. was put on