The age-herald., 1897-09-12
GOSSIP P OF TIE STREET
 2 AND HOTEL LOBBIES


 ''The fhs1na.y doge' to keep murder
 CTS from stretching hemp is getting to
 be entirely too common," said Lawyer
 R. E. Kibler, of Kansas City, who was
 in Birmingham yesterday. There is a
 case now on at nome which is fit illus-
 tration Fred Wait was once a respect
 able bookkeeper for a commission mer-
 chant. He was addicted to drink, and
 his employer was on the verge of dis
 charging him many times, but through
 pity for. his wife and children put up
 with the drunken man.
 Finally Wait killed the merchant in
 cold blood. The case came to trial and
 there was mo plea to be entered except l that of insanity. The shrewd lawyers | got many witnesses to testify to this l enect The jury brought in a verdict of I not guilty on The belief That Waite was linsane at the time Hlhe murder was com
 mitted. fie was sent to am insane asy-
 lErn and in three months was turned out
 cured. Now, according ito the law, that no man can be tried for the same crime
 twice, Waite can never be tried for this
 crime again. There are other cases where the murderer goes crazy after l the crime is s.5commiu:ed, and them they l can be tried again.
 'Tt is geIJdng so the insanity dodge
 is very easy to york;
 ''The man, J. L. Moyse. who has been working Birmingham, Atlanta and Nasll- | vile, is now in Memphis or was when 1 I left" said c. M. Filein. "He had no l trouble in duping Memphis. He bought a big bill from a wholesale merchant, | and so we'll impressed were several par l ties that they spent a. good round sum | in making Moyse have a swell time. 'He worked a hotel in quite cun- l ming manner. He registered as E. ". 1 Young, manager eff the Metropolitan | Opera company. 1t wasn't long after
 until the real D. W. Young came in to | register and saw his name already in- scribed on Ehe big book. He at once
 went in quest of the counterfeit. When l he was found there was a row and Moyse was exposed.
 'iMoyse told in Memphis that he was a big cotton planter and also represented himself as am attorney, citing the sen | sational Flanagan case in Atlanta as an | example of his prowess.'' Hon. John B. Knox, chairman of the state democratic executive committee was in Birmingham yesterday in con- | sultatdon with local politicians The
 campaign does not open until next year. yet preparations are being made to have things in trim.
 1t was in O'Brien's opera house during l f1ny oP
 that the following dialogue took place. A huband and wife, with wee tot of a boy, were sitting we'll to the middle | of the parquet. One of the ballet dances | was in progress, and there was great l intertwirdng, twisting and bending of | shapely limbs. The couple were past | the middle age, and from rhe treatment | of the boy, he must have been the youngest and the pet of large family Mama, mama,'' and he put his little | face up close to the mothers. What, son?" came the reply sooth- l ingly.
 Has dey ever been vaccinated?" "Why, son, I don't know. Perhaps l they have. What makes you ask such silly quesions?''
 Where was dey vaccdnated, ?"
 "Look at the show, son, and never | mind whether they have been vaccinated or not'
 'tMama, I just knows if dey was vac cirated where sister was dey couldn't
 shake dem legs dat way.' l As an electric car stopped at a cer- | tain slreet corner yesterday afternoon a l lady of rather stout proportions al,ghted l and started to walk diagonally in the direction of the sidewalk. A lh,tle fellow on a wheel who after l ward proved to be t.he womans son, | dashed toward her from the rear with l the evident and worthy intention of well l coming her home. The brake did not l work in time, however, and he colldded | with his mother wi.h considerable force l Ths enraged the lady, and, turning | af;er she had recovered her balanca she | proceeded to warm the youngster with an umbrella. Two young fellows, who l had no clue to the relationship existing 1 between the thrasher and the thrashed happened to be passing, and one think 1 ing the punistInen. administered too l severe, interferred, and, cal. ching hold | of the umbrella, told the woman she ought to be ashamed of herself for beat | ing a little boy that way Just at this junc:ure the womin's hus- | band came ovl- eff the house, and, sec ing man with one hand grasping his wife's umbrella and the other clutchingf fis sons collar, proceeded to mix up with the young man wi hou. further iHtroduc-. rion. At this the companion of the young man prI. in his oar, and the fight promised to embrace the entire neighbor- hood, when a neighbor, who lives on the  grasp the situation, separated the com batants long enough to explain matters and save them from arrest.
 Do you know what an
 "elnulsic n is3" It is when
 each5,droF of the oil is broken
 up intonrinute drops, so small