Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-02
GEORGIA bad MAN"
IS PRISONER HERE
Condemned Murderer Who Broke
Jail Deity Rounded
Up by Police.

They irnay make 'em bad down in
Georgia, but they don't include enough
wiseners in the making to turn out bad
men" clever enough to get away from
Wilmington police bent on their capture.
That Just about the situation in which
Holbert T.. Hall, wanted by the authorl-
ties of Rome, Georgia, for breaking jail
while under sentence of death for murder,
finds himself in Wilmington. Hall was
deity rounded up and captured last night
at the house where he had taken lodgings at
Fifth al q Lombard sereets. and IS ow
s9fe in the Police Station awaiting word
from the Georgia authorities
Halls arrest was brought about by the
capture in Salem, y J., on Thursday of
John Nettles, also wanted in. Rome for
iail breaking. Nettlcs had been serving
a sentence of ten years for burglary. and
it is understood he and Hall escaped to-
gether.
Chief Black received word yesterday
that Hall was living at the Lombard
street address He detailed Captain
kelleher and Patrolmen A. Dcvinncy,
Gold and Johnson to make the arrest.
When the policemen arrived at the
house, Hall had not returned from work
at the Ball Grain Explosive Company
plant, at GranoSuc, Lei
ARRANGED A TRAP.
The officers stationed themselves in the
house, Gold guarding the real door, while
Devinney and Johnson took their places
at the front After short wait a man
entered. and was pounced upon by the
policemen. Ii is said that Hall sent this
man ahead of him every evening to see
If the coast was clear before be himself
entered the house.
The policemen kept his man out of
sight, and soon afterward Hall himself
entered He was under arrest before
he had a chance TO resist.
Later search Of his room revealed a
loaded hand grenade Such as are used
IN the trench warfare, and IT Is believed
that II he had been given 2 chance he
would have used il to Kill the policemen
a nd try again to escI pc
At the station house, aftc he had been
locked up, Hall admitted hat he had
not meant to be caught alive, the police
saw
TELLS ABOUT HIMSELF.
Hall made no effort TO deny his identity
il is sand After he had been locked up
he made an entire confession, but denied
that either killing had been done IN cold
blood
According TO his stroy he stabbed a man
with pen-knife IN a quarrel last spnng
The man did not appear to be seriously
wounded, Hall declared, and he was
released on parole
While he was at liberty. Hall told the
police, the m an he had stabbed died, and
he was rearrested and, after 4 tral, con-
victed OF murder IN the first degree and
sentenced to be hanged. lie said that the
wounds he inflicted were slight, and that
physicians in operating on the man had
caused the wounds that resulted II death
TELLS OF SECOND CRIME.
Hall declared that his case was appealed
and that the court was 10 have passed
on the case last August While awaiting
the result of the appeal he sald, fellow
prisoner taunted HIM III the jail and one
dav he attacked the man with glass
bottle This man aftervaru died also,
he told the police.
lie Is being held to await extrsdition
10 Georgia
Netties was arrested through inability
to satisfy the draft board III Sa,~m rs-
gardine his antecedents After Hsll
had been locked up last night he was very
bitter toward Nettles. blaming mm Tor
the nredicament he WAS IN.
In addition to the grenade, the ponce
found "a number Of cartridges III Hall
room at the Lombard street house. \
pawn ticket indicated that the weapon
IN which the cartridges were TO he used
had bern pawned