Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-30
TIE ORDER ISSUES TODAY Announcing the Time and Place
 of the Encampment. WILL READ MOBILE, JUNE 20" A Noted Negro Crock Shot Dead in His Tracks
 While Resisting Arrest. SOCIAL PLEASURES OF THE SEAS0a searcy Pleads Guilty to Using the Mails for Fraudulent Purposes-W What Birming-
 ham Lady Owns This Watche
 Montgomery Miscellany.
SOCIAL PLEASURES OF THE stAs0H
Ege-Herald Bureau,
Exchange Hotel


 Montgomery. May 29.
 The governor this afternoon named Mobile as the place and June 20 as the time for holding the brigade encamp- mont of Alabama state troops. The of ficial order will be issued tomorrow. The location of the camp will be at the Alba place. on the bay. three miles from the heart of the city and the same place where the former encampment was held.
 Colonel Holt and Lieutenant Jones will go down tomorrow and make all necessary arrangements
 Mobile merchants subscribed $l700. Unless more is raised the encarnpment cannot last longer than a week There will be no brigadier general that Williams is the senior colonel.
 Noted Crook Killed.
 Dick Lee, alias Dsck Knight. alias Dick Hooks. alias Dick Hodfield alias Dick Thomas, notorious chicken and general thief. was shot through the heart this morning at 4 o'clock in the yard of Capital Hill public school by 1 Officer Mckee of the night police force, and instantly killed. For the past month or so residents of that section of the city have been making frequent com- plaints to police headquarters of serious depredatons having been committed on their chicken roosts, and last night Mounsed Officers 'Doron land Jackson set out to catch the thief. At 4 o'clock this morning they, with Patrolman Me- kee, discovered the negro Lee going across the school house common with a large bag on his shoulders, and from the bag issued sounds as if chickens were confined therein.
 They called on the negro to halt and throw up his hands. but instead of doing as commanded he dropped his bag of spells, drew his pistol and snapped it in Officer McRee's face, whereupon the officer fired with unerring aim and the negro fell dead with bullet hole through his heart. .-... .-s-.1
 on the negros person was found a crooked steel instrument of novel nven- ton, which he had used to prize open locks and gain admittance to residences and hen houses, and a pistol, which Chief Gerald says Is an exact counterpart of those stolen by Colonel Harris from the Birmingham Arms company and no doubt Lee had a hand in that robbery Lee has been famous in criminal cir cles in Montgomery and Birmingham for the past thirty years, and his death re- lieyes the officers of one more crook to watch. In the bag was found fourteen fat hens and one rooster, which are now at police headquarters waiting to be claimed by their owners. Lees body was turned over to his relatives for burial. Whose Watch Is ItP
 Some years ago, while on a visit to Chicago, Miss Carrie Toney Cochran (now Mrs. Bishop H. M Jackson) had her watch stolen from her rooms at the Auditorium hotel. It was a small sized gold watch, with the initials e.. T." in monogram on the outside of the case and the name e. Toney" engraved on the e Nnfl I. ,1 the watch, though an exhaustive search was made at the time, it being a family heirloom, and for that reason very val uable, until a few days ago. when the chief of police of Vicksburg telegraphed that he had arrested a negro with a watch answering to the description on his person. Chief Gerald sent for the watch and today received it, but it did not prove to be Mrs. Jacksons, the name on the inside of the case being c. Torrey instead of c. Toney. Chief Ger aid thinks the watch belongs to a lady of Birmingham and will send it to Chief Mcdonald of that city.
 Searcy Pleads Guilty.
 This morning in the United States district court Thomas Searcy, through his attorney, Colonel Pelham. plead guilty to the two indictments against him for using the mails for fraudulent purposes, and turned states evidence Searcy is from Hardwicksburg, Henry county, and 1t seems that his scheme was this: He and four co-conspirators- R. L. Hardwick, R. L. Peterman, John J. Blanton and John T. Robinson, IT, would order from wholesale houses in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Bal timore and other large cities, furniture, pianos, buggies, drugs, tomb-stones and in one case an $500 hearse. These are only few of the many articles ordered, the amount running up into thousands of dollars.
 The way in which they established their credit was to vouch for one an- other, representing their confederates to be merchants of good standing and financial ability. while in fact they were farmers living on rented lands, not one of them owning their land.
 Having satisfied the wholesale mer- chants, they would order in large uuan- titles, in many instances in carload lots, and then when the goods arrived they Would send one of their friends for the merchandise, which they would dispose of where they could and at what price they could get. For instance, they would sell top-buggy for $10 or s15 and 5000 piano for S100 and would furnish tombstones for an entire family, dead and living. for $50 or s60.
 But their we'll laid plans came to an ab-