The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-17
PASSWORDS USED IN FRAMING DEALS,
 WITNESS STATES
More Details of Alleged Ex- press Loot Conspiracy Are Given By Former
 Messenger
By Associated Press

Macon, Ga. March ie.-;will he rider was a password among express neesen gers, F. M. Alsabrook told the jury in federal court here today. to deter mine whether other messengers to whom vas to be entrusted express loot. could he depended upon to make deliveries according to the plans of the alleged conspirators in wholesale thefts from the company.
 Hes all right" was an 70, K" sig nal that the party would do his part said Alsabrook.
 Alsabrook was one of five employees of the company to plead guilty in the trial of 54 men charged with conspiracy to steal from the express company. H. followed C. R. Crimson to the witness stand, the latter continuing his testl- mony of the day before
 Alsabrook said that he signed a state. ment admitting his guilt after being under a fire of questions in the office of Superintendent H. H. May in this city from o'clock one afternoon until z o'clock next morning After signing the statement, he said he was allowed to go to sleep. At later conference, Alsa : brook said, he was urged by attorneys and his grandfather, the latter in tears. to "cone clean'
 ENTERS ON CRUTCHES
 Alsabrook. who is only 20, entered the court room on crutches, He said ne worked in the Montgomery office of the American Railway Express company be- fore he went on the, road From Sep- tember l. 1918. to April 1919, he said he had a run from Eufaula to Ozark. and then from Albany, Ga, to Madison Fla. on the Atlantic Coast Line
 Frequently. he said, he chatted with o. E. Hood, another messenger. and they conversed about money and thefts, he said. On one occasion. he said, he asked Hood who he sold to and received the reply T don't pick 'em.'' He said he learned who to sell to from the messen- gers.
 Was there any particular expression used to designate whether you could deal with certain messengers2' asked Assis- tant District Attorney F. C. Powers
 Yes sir, we spoke of those as being all right !"
 He named railroad connecting points where he. said the messengers framed up their deals.
 'T ran from Albany and Florala, Ala, with C. R. Baker. a baggage master. 2 he said, when asked about this defen dant.
 Ion one occasion. I sold him som middy blouses. Often he asked me what had that he could use. One day when was in his car he asked me if I had any children's clothes, told him ! didn't know, but would go back and look. I found the middy blouses and he bought them for S5
 HE WAS BAD PAY
 l.o xx-ttv, <,1o xnI ft,af bo bad a. actions with o. B. Baldwin, and was often asked by him, he said. for different stuff, He was bad pay" the witness testi- fed
 The witness declared that he had deal ings with E w. Barbre and Lee Dix, Ma con men.
 1T sold Dix, who v'as 2 hagga~e,~e tier at the time. eggs about once wek 1 sold them to him every time that had them. He paid me $S crate. He told me that he was selling the eggs to the cafes in Macon. Most of these eggs were being shipped from points in Alabama
 Dix tried to buy suit of clothes from me- continued the witness. but could not find suit that would fit hirns
 The witness declared he had often had transactions with E. E. Dunaway. agent at Oglethorpe Dunaway. he said. all ways met the train.
 ss"One time he asked me if I had any oceans said Yes and rolled barrel of 'em out to him on a truck. got the oceans from Albany. I don't remem- Der whether the express markings were still on them He paid me s25 for them week later"
 Among other things left with Dunaway. he said was gun from Ithaca N. Y.. which he said Dunaway could not sell. and which he later sold to Charley Hunter.
 Similar disposition of automobile tires.
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