Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-06
FOWLER PRELIMINARY ENDS Defendant Is Held in the Sum of
 S1000. TREND OF HIS TESTIMONY Admits Under Cross-Examination That He Wrote the Decoy Letter-Some h.
 teresting Statements.


 The now celebrated Fowler case has been disposed of in the inferior criminal court in so far as the preliminary exam nation is concerned.
 The preliminary examination began Monday morning and was concluded yes terday about 1 o'clock, Judge Feagin placing the defendants bond at 5000.
 E. s. Carper Testifies.
 The first witness heard yesterday morn- ing was MT. E. S. Carper, who lives at Champion, and on whose account the case was postponed from Thursday until yesterday.
 He took the stand and testified as fol- lows:
 I live at Champion. I am bookkeeper, railroad agent. acting postmaster and operator. 1 have never received sum- mons in this case. J. w. Worthington telegraphed me to come in. MT. Worth ington is my employer. He telegraphed me that the judge of the inferior criminal court had requested him to send for me. I have known F. B. Greene about two years. He worked at Ishkooda as a ma chinist. I know Greene's general reputa- ton from what I have heard said of him. From what I have have heard people say in the last two years it was good, but recently 1t was bad. I know of Greenes being carried to Chicago. He was already in Evansville when l heard of it. saw him the day after the election in Birming- ham. He said he had been badly treated and that if there was any law in the country he was going to make some one suffer. I will not say he said he would get even. Fowler asked me if had seen Greene. I said yes I had seen him and that Greene had said he was going to pat with coDoahOly. a nj Uac pnipo to law about it, and intimated that it was Mir. Fowler. The latter said All right" l told Fowler Greene was going to court about it and was going to get even. I never heard Greene threaten anybody by name at all.
 The prosecution expressed a desire to cross-eXamine him and the next witness called was
 R. 1T. Fowler.
 MT. Fowler on taking the stand, said: I live on Twenty-first street, between First and Second avenues. I have been in Birmingham off and on since 1885. Most of the time have been railroading. I worked for the Highland Avenue and Belt railroad as yardmaster and conduct or. Since June 15 have been detective in the employ of J. w. Worthington, and with commission under Sheriff Morrow. My special business was to catch up with some one who was damaging machinery by putting emory dust and cutoff air in mining machinery. I stopped with sev- eral people in Ishkooda, and among them was Greene. Greene said he was one of the committeeman of the strikers, and was opposing the settlement of the strike. I had something to do with Greene's go- ing to Chicago. He insisted on going there with me to accept position offered to my brOther-in law. I did not ask him to go. I left him in Chicago. He was back in Birming ham five days before I saw him. I met him in the depot and of fered my hand, but he would not take it. Greene asked me If that G. d. s- = had hired me to get anybody out of the country" I asked him what he meant, and requested him to come inside and talk it over. We sat down. and Greene said: You know told you that if any body ever treated me dirty l would get even with hIm, and l mean to get even with threa men-yourself Fowler), Car per and J. w. Worthlngton." l told him I had not mistreated him. and explained to him. I asked him what Carper had done, and he said he knew him, and also Mir. Worthington. I said Worthington had nothing to do with it, and Greene said he knew better. Greene talked about taking g. trip to New York, with a. lay over at Washington. I told him might fix it and might put piece of money in his hands if he would only keep his mouth closed We went up to the city and stopped at Dunker's saloon. Greene drank gin, while I took beer. We walked all around town and Greene showed me a ticket to Ishkooda. He asked me to go with him, and insisted on it. He said he lived on Sand mountain, near Shades mountain, and said would not go. He insisted three or four times. We met Bruce Kelley about noon. Bruce told me that Carper had said Greene was going 10 get even. and I had better watch Greene asked Kelley to stay with me and watch Greene. We met Hewlett that day, and asked his advice in the case. I have new CT told any living man that I could have killed Greene and was sorry that didn't. Greene knew I had letters In my pocket, and he attempted to get them. put them up at hardson's saloon and told the barkeeper not to give them up until I came for them. Greene went back to the rear of the saloon and tried to sleep. off the drunk. Greene was under the inf1u- ence of liquor. I tried everything to get Greene in a good humor. I even asked him if he was not sore because he had been a detective and had been carried to Chicago and left there.
 It was about S:30 o'clock that we went up towards the hotel We went into the saloon on the corner of Second avenue and Twenty-first street. I went upstairs and pulled off my coat and asked my wife if she had any ice. I went after some ice and saw Greene and Kelley sit- ting on the sidewalk. Kelley asked