Home Titles The Fayetteville news. April 05, Image 2 The Fayetteville news. Fayetteville, Ga. Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML. Efforts are on foot to have Gov. Ben W. Hooper, the Republican gov ernor of Tennessee, name Alfred A. Taylor, who is one of the same po litical faith as the governor, and a brother of the late Senator Robert Taylor, to succeed to the vacant seat in the United States senate.
Alfred A. Taylor was the nominee of the Republican party in , when Rob ert Love Taylor was the Democratic candidate. Although government and police of ficials refuse to give out any infor mation in regard to the matter, sev eral arrests were made which indicate that extensive robberies of the mail have been systematical!
Under arrest in connection with these charg. A pitched battle occurred on the streets of Rockingham, N. The latter were drinking, it is alleged, and when one of them was arrested for creat ing a disturbance a number of others rushed the officers with the possible intention of freeing their comrade,, when the shooting commenced. Dep uty Sherib C. The safe in the postofflee at St.
Elmo, Tenn. The thieves escaped with over a thousand dollars, mostly in stamps. There is no clue to the identity of the safe-blowers. This is the second suburban postoffice robbed within 24 hours, probably by the same gang. Charles Hall Taylor, a scion of one of the most prominent families in Macon, Ga. Tyndall, a laundry wagon driver, when the latter came home and found Taylor with his arms about his young sister-in-law.
Taylor, who was 22 years of age, died in the city hospital twenty minutes after the shooting. Tyndall is locked up charged with murder. Friel Allen, a blue-eyed stripling of 17, youngest of the eight of the Allen gang, each indicted for the five murders in the Carroll county court house a fortnight ago, was taken in a carriage shed at the home of his father, Jack Allen, eight miles from Hillsville, Va. He cheerfully submit ted to arrest, and he occupies a cell in the Hillsville jail with his cousin, Claude Swanson Allen, who surren dered without resistance to the de tectives.
