Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-11
CHRON|CLEDAT THE COURTS
Money Lenders Warned Out of
the Government Building.
THE GARRISON BOND CASES
White Cap Cases NoIIe Prossed-Anse Wood
Acquitted of Numbering Rufe Black.
Pratt Mines Rioters.

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morning:
Clip Sullivan, retail liquor dealer; jury
and verdict of guilty and sentenced to
three months Imprisonment in the JEFF
ferson county jail and a fine of 800 and
costs.
Philip Brooks, retail liquor dealer; plea
of guilty and on account of long inn
prisonment at Coalburg under sentence
from state court sentence of this court
was suspended.
Phillip Brooks ct al, sci. fa.; judgment
nisi set aside.
Three cases against James 7 Stark.
charged with forgery, presenting a false
account and embezzlement of letters,
were reset for trial on Friday, the 18th.
Parkes Roberts, illicit distilling; nolle
pressed
Abner Farmer, Illicit distilling; nolle
pressed.
Rudolph Hoehne sending obscene letter
through the mail; nolle pressed.
Calvin Evans, working in an Illicit dis
tillery; dismissed.
Monroe Arlington, Illicit distilling; dis
missed.
J. C. Pritchard, retail liquor dealer; dis
missed.
c. F. Freeman, retail liquor dealer; dis
missed.
Milton Farmer, White Capping dis
missed. The same order as in the Ban
lister case is to be noted.
John Peak, Illicit distilling; dismissed.
Charles Stokes, defaulting witness; at
tachment discharged.
Wyatt Moore, retail liquor dealer; dis
missed.
J. IL. Carroll. retail liquor dealer; dis
missed.
George Hunter, retail liquor dealer;
dismissed.
Lee Darnell, retail liquor dealer; dis
missed. 7ar
Charles Bannister and Newt Bannis-
ter, White Gaping United States wit
nesses; nolle pressed. These men were
indicted with Parker Gilley and Lorenzo
Phillips and others for White Gaping
the Parker family in Cleburne county.
Parker Gilley and others were convicted,
and are now serving sentences in the
penitentiary. The Bannisters were new
er arrested but since the decision
against Todd ct al. appealed to the SUI
preme court from this court, it has been
decided that commissioners court is
not a court coming within the purview of
the statute. They may be indictable I'M
der different section of the revised stat
utes.
VIII Rice, Tom Strawn, Benjamin f.
Osborne and Horace Linders, White Cap
ping; same order Is in the Bannister
cases. Some of the defendants mention
ed under these orders have been rein
dicted.
In all sci. ia cases on the forfeiture of
Robert Charlsons bonds they were made
final as to Robert Charlson. The order
made on a former day of term, which
provided that upon the payment of costs
the judgment final was to be set aside,
is made applicable only to sureties on
those bonds, not so to the principal
Lawson l.. Melton, l.. r. Price and j. B.
Price, and also Lawson L. Melton, l.. r.
Price and Frank p. Box, two cases,
charged with using the mails with pur-
pose to defraud; continued until the next
term of the court on motion of the dis
trict attorney ON account of the absence
of Green l.. Starnes, an important wit
ness. The bond of Frank Box, now in
Jail, was reduced to $500.
Three cases are pending against Frank
Box for similar offenses, and the bond in
each case was fixed at $500. The latter
cases will be investigated by the grand
jury at the April term of the court in
Huntsville.
M. d. Bryan, charged with using the
mail to defraud, and who had given bond
for his appearance at this term of the
court. 1t has been ascertained that the
crime was committed in the north Ala
bama division. His bond was reduced
from $1,000 to $500 for his appearance at
the Huntsville court. Bryan succeeded
in making his bond.
The grand jury returned forty indict-
ments yesterday
Court Notes.
Mr.. r. b. Smyer was admitted at the
bar as attorney, solicitor and proctor
Upon complaint of the district attor-
ney the order previously made by the
court forbidding ticket brokers as money
lenders from trafficking in the govern
ment building will hereafter be strictly
enforced. Parties thus engaged have
been notified to desist.
Criminal Court.
There was no morning session of the
criminal court, owing to Judge Greene
having been selected as a pail bearer at
the funeral of Mrs. DR.. Joseph r. Smith
Tn the murder case of Anse Woods, the
slayer of RUFF Black in 1891 near Bloss-
burg, entered into Monday afternoon
the jury brought in verdict of not
guilty.
At the afternoon session Bill Brock and
James Yeager were put on trial for par
ticpating in a riot at Pratt mines in
1894
1t will be remembered that in this riot
Deputy B. w. Tierce was killed.
City Court.
In the first division of the city court the
jury in the case of Richard r. McFarlin
vs. Bates Manufacturing company, owing
to a general charge of Judge Wilkerson
brought in verdict for the defendants
Caroline Nabers VS.. r. r. Ramey ct
al. on trial.
Real Estate Transfers.
The following real estate transfers
were filed in the probate office:
Eastern Dynamite company of New
Jersey to Atlantic Dynamite company of
New Jersey southwest quarter of sec
ton IL, township II. range west; 81.
Atlantic Dynamite company of New
Jersey to Eastern Dynamite company of
New Jersey, east half of southeast quar-
ter of section II, township II, range 8
west; 81.
Marriage License.
Only one license was issued as follows:
Sol j. Murphree to May Elam
Charged With Intimidation.
Henry Norris of Shelby county was ar
raigned before Commission H. A. Will
son yesterday for intimidating witness
who was to testify against him In the
United States court on the charge of re-
failing liquors contrary to law. Norris
was held to bond.