The age-herald., 1900-09-28
LIFE SENTENCES
 FOR MURDERERS
Notes, BIakenShip and Robinson Convicted LittIejohn Acquitted
THE END OF A FAMOUS CASE
Howard-Harrison Company Loses Back Tax Case Rufus Hill and Wesley Reid Acquitted ot Highway
 Robbery-Co News

The second trial of the famous Talladega County case of Walter Notes, Dodge Blankenship, Jasper Robinson and John Littlejohn was ended in the United States Court yesterday by the conviction of all the defendants except John Littlejohn, who was acquitted. The judge immediately had the three convicted men brought before him and after brief talk to them, sentenced them to life imprisonment in the Nashville penitentiary.
 The story of the crime is familiar to most people, as the defendants were tried once before and convicted for the killing of w. A. Thompson, 0 government witness, in Talladega County, several years ago.
 A number of other prisoners were sen- fenced by Judge Swayne. Marion Bearden, who was convicted of conspiracy resulting in an attempt upon the life of Jesse Thomp- son, another government witness, was sen- fenced to ten years imprisonment in the Nashville penitentiary.
 Other sentences were as follows:
 Zeal Burns, retailing; three months
 J. B. Woodward, illicit distillng; nine months. Tom Garden, retailing; two months. J. F. Mckinney, illicit distilling; nine months. D. F. Beam, working in illicit still; two months. S. w. Bonds, retailing; one month. Jeff Hansard, retailing; two months.
 Bill Davis, retailing; three months
 John Cockrell, working in illicit still two months.
 William Wallace. perjury; thirteen months.
 Joe Hudgins, retailing; three months.
 Sam Fornier, retailing; three months
 Chester Williams, retailing; three months.
 Joe Hanna, illicit dstilling; thirteen months.
 Jim Williams, retailing; thirteen months.
 William Bransconlb, violating postal law two years.
 H. A. Dillingham;, illicit distillng; thir- teen months.
 Joe Bevers, stealing postal blanks and attempting to use same; two years.
 Jim Farmer, retailing; ten days.
 Boss Surratt, illicit distilllng; thirteen months Wilson Cross, retailing; three months.
 Artie Nicholson, retailing; three months. Joe Miller, retailing; fined $2. and cost. | Mable Powers, retailing; fined $25 and cost.
 A petition in voluntary bankruptcy was filed yesterday by w. II. Martin of East Birmingham. Criminal Court
 The Criminal Court was engaged all of yesterday in trying Rufus Hill and Wesley Reid for highway robbery. The jury re- turned verdict of not guilty. They will now be tried on the charge of assault with intent to murder. Circuit Court In the case of the State of Alabama vs the Howard-EIarrison Iron Company of Bessemer the jury yesterday brought in l the following verdict: we, the. jury, find for the plaintiff, and find that the value of the property of the | defendant for the year 1897 was $140,00o, | and that the defendant having paid it's l taxes on $1O0,OOO, that the taxes due the | State are now for the excess, to-wit: The l taxes State and county, on $40,OOO valua- | ton, being the sum of $460, and we so find | for the year 1897. | "A. L. McWILLIAMS, Foreman. September 27 1900." | Charles J. Sharp, Mrs M H. Proctor, | John Sharp, William R. Sharp and Charles | J. Sharp guardian for Thomas s. Sharp, | have brought suit against c. A. Bowers and | M J. Feibelman, doing business under the | name and style of Bowers&s Feibelman, for | $6O9.47 damages for alleged breach of the covenants of a lease of No 1914 Second | avenue. Nathaniel Oliver has entered judgment by l consent against the Birmingham Rolling | Mill Company for $100. The case of Fannie A. Prouty against w. G. Lunsford is now on trial. It has been on I the docket since 1895. It is a suit for wrong- | fully disposing of property on which plain- tiff had lien. City Court Ida Whitaker has brought suit against the (Continued on Eighth Page))