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I*ft*mmi#inHOLDUP AIREDCITY COURT*iQuestion of Bond For Deefendanti Deferredti€Alter long hearing In police court today of the cases of Adam I, Ritchey, meat buyer,.and W. 8. Reynolds, clerk, alleged accessories in the $700 McPhlllips Manufacturing Co. payroll holdup, the question of bail for the defendants was deferred.Recorder D. H. Edlngton announced he would rule on the bonds tomorrow.Ba€4The state produced Police' ChiefWarren Burch and Detective Lincoln who said Ritchey and Reynolds voluntarily signed statements of their guilt; that Ritchey admitted acting as a lookout the day Harold Pitman held up Joepaymaster, and MissdatvMarie Watson, stenographer, ofUnmthe company, Nov. I, 1031, andrvt8thede-that Reynolds, employe of Mlt; Phillips plant, furnishedtails as to how and when the weekly payroll was brought to the plant.ent(1fConfessions AttackedThe alleged confessionsattacked by Attorneys Harry Seale, for Reynolds, and W. C. Taylor, for Ritchey. Seale charged Solicitor Bart Chamberlain used strenuous methods to obtain the alleged confessions and that only part of Reynolds' statement was read to him. This the state denied and claimed Reynold* read over his alleged statement.eiKmtiishinlt;thIST. C, Pitman, brother of Har-old Pitman, th* latter in the county Jail without bond in the holdup, furnished evidence against Ritchey 1. He testified his brother told him of the holdup and gave him $100 to hand to Ritchey when he called for it at a place where the witness was employed.The witness 'testified. Ritchey told him the amount of money was not enough. Pitman said hi* brother objected to him telling the authorities of the holdup because the others would not agree to it.6-a«re10ye1510peanAl
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The Mobile Times
Mobile, Alabama, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1934
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