Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-22
 GUILTY AS CHARGED ]! W. H. Hunter and Sandy White So
 Held by the Jury IN UNITED STATES COURT For Making False Claims Against Uncle Sam-The
 Grand Jury Report.

Ex-United States Commissioner ". H. Hunter and Ex-Deputy United States Marshal Sandy White were convicted in the federal court yesterday of presenting false claims against the government.
 On the 6lh day of December, 1892. G. F. Burge of Fayette county was tried in United States Commissioner Hunters court in this city for operating an illicit distjllery. On the pay roll presented 10 the government the names of Will Patton and L. W. Andrews appeared as govern ment witnesses, the amount claimed as due them being s2l.50.
 Rumors oi corruption among certain gov ernment officials in this district having been quietly circulated the federal grand jury at the August term, 1883, recom- mended to the government that an exam finer be sent here to investigate the matter. Examiners Leigh Chalmers and Lee Cow art were designated as such and begun an investigation which resulted in indictments being found against Messrs. Hunter, s White and several others.
 Wednesday Messrs. Hunter and White were placed on trial, and about o'clock yesterday afternoon after being out about two h ours, the jury returned verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment.
  for new trial, and moved an arrest of judgment. Both motions will be argued this morning.
 The defendants were remanded to the custody of the United States marshal until further orders of the court.
 J. B. Allen pleaded guilty yesterday after noon to frauduleutly using the United States mails. Allen is the man who re- gently set up "ereen goods" business at Avondae. He was remanded to the cus- tnd If f hn hal
 J. s. Bolton, attachment for contempt and fiue imposed at a former term set aside.
 Martha Washington, sending obscene letter through the mail; plea of guilty and sentenced to six months Imprisonment in the Huntsville jail and fined S100 and costs: A. G. Shook pleaded guilty to perjury and was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to two years Imprisonment in the Kings county, N. Y., penitentiary.
 Turner Hibbs, retail liquor dealer, sen- tenced to thirty days' Imprisonment and fined S100 and costs.
 Porter Mo Whorter pleaded guilty to illicit distilling, and was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to thirty days Imprisonment.
 Dave McWhorter, illicit distilllng; plea of guilty and fine of s1Oo and costs and sentenced to thirty days impriso meut.
 Charles Hall, pleaded guilty to Illicit dis tilling and was sentenced to sixty days im- prisonment and fined S100 and coss.
 Allen Long, illicit distiiling; fined $l00
 
 Thomas o. Carter, retail liquor dealer; dismissed.
 William T. Evans, retail liquor dealer; dismissed.
 Began Sexton yesterday entered plea of guilty to counterfeitiDg and was re- manded to the custody of the United States marshal. Sexton claims to have been one of the alleged Morrison gang and some time ago he turned states evidence and gave the gang away.
 8. w. Nolen, illicit distilling; jury aud sealed verdict agreed to.
 The federal grand jury finished it's work yesterday morning and submitted the fol- lowing written report to the court:
 United States Circuit and District Court for the Southern Division of the Northern
 District of Alabama, held at Birmingham March term, 1895.
 To the Hon. Alex Boarman. Judge Presiding: We, the undersigned grand jurors em panelled, sworn and charged for the March term, 1895, of said court, beg leave to re- port as follows:
 Immediately upon receiving the charge of the court we began the investigation of alleged violations of the criminal laws of the United States, submitted to us by the district attorney and otherwise coming to our Knowledge, and have worked diligently and necessarily since that time.l We report that we have docketed 223 cases; we have examined 46S witnesses; we have returned into court true bills against Al persons, and we have ignored bills in S3 cases.
 We state to your honor that 70 per cent of the cases in which bills were ignored | were cases which had been bound over by | the commissioners and came into the grand | jury in which the district attorney, upon examining the evidence, had found it in- l sufficient to support bill, or that the wit -