Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-27
IT WAS A CLOSE CALL.
Officer Jack Mc0onaIdS Narrow Escape in an
 Encounter With F, V. E, Lynch.

LHbOuhtCi UItl it W L' EDlSh F. V. b. Lynch was arraigned before Judge Feagin in the inferior criminal court yesterday on three charges, using profane language in the presence of fe- males disorderly conduct and assault with a pistol with intent to murder. He was fined $5 in each of the first two cases and bound over in the third in the | sum of $250 to await the action of the grand jury
 MT. Lynch claims to be the accredited representative of the New York World. Chicago Herald and Sound Money, MT CoXey's paper- For the past two months he and his wife and babe have been boarding with Mrs. Heron at 2021 Ave nue G.
 According to the evidence of Mrs. Her ron, MT. Lynch has not been treating his wife, who Is in a delicate condition, as he should, and on last Tuesday night he came home intoxicated, and be- gan abusing her again, when she sent for the officers to arrest him. Officers Jack Mcdonald and Going tes- tified that on reaching the residence of Mrs. Heron they found the door to the room of MT. Lynch locked and demanded entrance three times and were refused, and thereupon knocked the door open, , when Lynch snapped his pistol in the face of Officer Mcdonald; that Lynch expressed himself after arrest that he regretted that his pistol did not fire; that he wouldn't have cared had he shot the officer dead; that he had no right to force an entrance into his room.
 MT. Lynch denied that he was intoxi- cated or that he had mistreated his wife, or that he sne pped his pistol in the face of the officer; that he did not know they were officers, and that if they had been they had no right to enter his room with out a warrant; that the pistol he had was given him by Mrs. Herrons husband; that chicken thieves had been plying their vocation about the henneres, and his wife was nervous and thought they might also attempt to burglarize the res idence.
 The case elicited considerable interest from the fact that it was by the merest accident, accor ding to the evidence of the officers, that the pistol did not fire, and had it done so a brave officer would certainly have met his death MT Lynch seems to think the action of the prosecution is purely malice and the effort of his landady to secure small board bill by criminal action rather than by civil process. The following other cases were dis posed of:
 Mary Johnston, colored, fighting; fined $5 Arrested by Officer Cunningham.
 Hattie Borden, colored disorderly con- duct and larceny; fined $5 in each case. Arrested by Officer Rollo.
 John Young. trespassing fined $5 Ar rested by Officers Moses and Duncan
 M. F. Chamblee, dsordery conduct; fined $4. Arrested by Officer Langston
 Ell Seay, colored, larceny; fined $10. Arrested by Officer Cunningham.
 Louis Coutrie, embezzlement; fined $5. Arrested by Officer Byars.
 Jesse Todd, larceny of watch from the person of T. J. M. Mecan bound over to the grand jury in the sum of $20O. Ar rested by Sergeant Donelson.
 w. T. Jackson. colored, trespassing: fined $5 Arrested by Officers Gambill and Cole.
 J c. Strating, disorderly conducts fined $5.
 John E. Murph assault and battery; fined $5. Arrested by Officers Elard and Mcdonald.
 Leila Whitesides, colored. disorderly conduct; fined $5 Arrested by Officers Dishroon. Mcdonald and Kirkley
 Eli Tucker, colored, disorderly conduct; fined $5. Arrested by Officer Going
 Mingo Lewis, colored, vagrancy; fined $3. Arrested by Officer Hagood.
 w Williams. affIay; fined $10 Arrest ed by Officer Nix.
 Will Herd, colored. burglary and grand larceny; bound over to the grand jury in the sum of $500. Arrested by Officers Worthy and Goggans.