Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-20
YESTERDAY IN THE COURTS
About One Hundred True Bills
Were Returned
BY THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY
Numerous Indictments for UnIawfulIy Retail
ing Liquor-Quiet Day in the Several
City Courts.

lie lO1lOW11B cases were ulSpOStd VI
in the United States court yesterday:
Charley Caldwell, retailing liquor with
out license; dismissed.
The grand jury made its final report
yesterday morning. Nearly 100 true
bills were returned during the sitting.
Arrests have been made in the following
cases:
For Illicit retail liquor dealing-Wil-
liam s. Smith, Lamar; John Blalock. De-
Kalb; James Burrel, Jefferson; Henry
Steele, Jefferson; Simie Gordon, Greene;
Dock Dowdle, Jefferson; Louis Morrison
Cherokee; John Henry Scott DeKalb;
William N. Raney, Tuscaloosa; Jim De-
Shazo, Charley Brown, Allison Hale, JEFF
ferson; oliver Johnson, Shelby; w. A.
Freeman, Tuscaloosa; Monroe Goodfn
Taladega; Jeptha Barger, David Bar
ger, Jr., Moses Barger. Nose Barger,
Jesse Barger, Tim Lowery, George Glenn,
Zeke Howell, w. c. McGuff, NJ. j. Free"
man, Tuscaloosa; Joe Gregg, Sumter;
Samuel Campbell, st. Clair; Tom, alias
John Buggs, Jap Horton, Shelby; M
Lively, DeKalb; John Berryhill, Fayette;
Reuben johnson, Hale; John Hollis. Gle
burne; Frank Mcdonald, John Henry
Morrison, cleburne.
For Illicit distilling-RufusB Brown, Tus-
kalooSa; James Grammar, Tuscaloosa;
John l.. Grammar, Tuscaloosa; George
w. Morgan Cleburne; James M. Hunni-
cut, ST Clair, Illicit distilling and re-
moving spirits; A. M. Council, Pickens.
Illicit distilling and retailing; John j.
Walker, Pickens; Robert Pate, Plckens;
John Strickland, Pickens; Albert Evans,
DeKalb; William Bell, DeKalb; j. r,
Glover, Jefferson; M. ]. Tuggle, Jeffer-
son; John, alias Jim, Suggs, C1eburne;
John Lewis Grammar, Tuscaloosa; o.
G. Kilgore, Walker; Sherman Kilgore,
Walker; Joe Frost, Walker; Robert Ham
ner and John Wilcutt, Walker; John b.
Howton, JEFF erson John Patterson and
Joe Cotton, Talladega, illicit dlStllnng
and removing spirits
Asa ]. Jackson. Cherokee; using mails
for fraudulent purposes.
Nick House Monroe House, Tuska-
loosa; intimidation of government wit
ness. 1t is alleged defendants ill-treated
NJ. d. Hammer some months back.
Glenn r. Putnam, ST. Clair; retail
liquor dealer working in an illicit dis
tillery and Illicit distilling.
John Frazier. Cleburne; impeding gov
eminent officers.
James B. Bishop, Cherokee; counter
feiting.
David S. Robertson and Ella ]. Robert
son, Tuscaloosa; violation of postoffice
laws.
Jasper Long, Cherokee; passing coun-
terfet money.
terfeit money.
No bill returned in the following cases:
Cooney Bost, Pomp Martin, Pink
Scoover, Robert E. Rogers, Charles Purl-
ford, William Slime, Riley Horton, Ben
Martin, Marion Cam, j. A, and Bnd
Green, j. d. Cook, Henry Brooks, Shelby
Hawkins, Bud Smith, Jeff Young, Bob
Lott, John Couch, A. B. Rigsby,- John
Pearson, Drew Davis, VIII Jolley, VIII
liam Snyder, Robert L.. Baker, Joe Dur
ger Bud Chandler, Greene b. Frost ct
al, Roumlus Calhoun ct a., walker
Spencer, G.. Frost, Powell Pritchell.
Cases continued: Lum Tison, Henry
Clay, Robert J. Argo, William M. Burton,
r. L. Miller, Jess Norris Willis Alverson,
Wiley Pruett, Ed Gray, John w. Brown,
James c. Horton.
State Courts.
Very little news was stirring at the
court house yesterday. John Walton has
failed to sell his body and Bill Smith is
Indifferent In fact Bill has friends
who may want him after Sheriff MORROW
gets through with him.
Real Estate Transfers
The following transfers were registered
in the probate court:
]. W. McAdory and wife to waiter X
McAdory, lot 2, block 6; IS and land ex-
changed
j. w. Webb to j. A. Brown northwest
quarter of northeast quarter, section .,
township 10, range west, forty acres;
$129.43.
Eiyton Land company to Annie NJ
Burkhalter, lot H. block 1872, Birming-
ham; $3.50. -
Sarah E. Eubank and Alfred Eubank
to James II. Allen, lot in Elyton; $500.
Marriage Incense.
The following marriage licenses We're
recorded
Herbert Dave Wells and Florence Per-
kins.
S. F. Leonard and Mrs. M. A. Nelson.
Inferior Criminal Court.
The usual routine of business was dis
pensed with in the inferior court yester-
day, the charges consisting of disorderly
conduct, leaving hack unattended on
street SleeninR while on hack. using