The age-herald., 1900-10-24
HABEAS CORPUS
 OLDEST OF WRITS Releases George. Davis, But He
 is Rearrested THE LADY OF THE PORTRAIT An Idyll of Owenton and the Prison Sequel-various Verdicts in the
 Courts The Damages
 Mill Grinds On
THE LADY OF THE PORTRAlI I

In the Circuit Court yesterday George A. Davis, of the firm of Davis Brothers, con- tractors who had been arrested on the charge of obtaining money under false pre- lenses, sued out a writ of habeas corpus and was discharged, Judge Wilkerson hold ing the warrants under which he was ar rested were technically defective. New warrants were executed and he was inn mediately rearrested and is now in jail. The case of Mrs. Elizabeth Foster ad- ministrix, against the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Is now on trial.
 verdict for defendant rendered in the case of Sallie J. Russell vs. Silas J. Peavy, ejeetment.
 Judgments by consent were rendered in the following cases: w. J. Martin vs. Southern Railway Company $11S75; J. W. Cole vs Southern Railway Company, $6S.75; L. A Wilson vs. c. NJ. Burkhalter and Company, $25; Germaina Fire Insurance Company vs. J. w. Hawkins, $1oO; Marie Ellis Pendergraft vs. Birmingham Railway and Electric Company, $50.
 The two Judgments against the Southern Railway Company were in the cases of the two railway mail clerks who claimed to have had their feet frostbitten while work ing over the Southern Railway.
 Lady of the Portrait
 Henry Evans and Bill Harris are now in jail charged with assault with intent to murder They had row at Owenton Col lege
 Henry and Bill, it seems have been on bad terms for some time, owing to Henrys attention to Bills wife,
 1 of 1yifa ba oin nc in his room. Bill asked him to give it up and went to him to get it, but Henry re- fused and gave Bill the marble heart, al- though he was not so ice to Bills wife, Bill feeling that he was de trop where Henry was went home leaving the picture behind him. He hunted up the original, and in no negative way began to tell her what he thought His thoughts must have been long, long thoughts, for while he was telling them to the lady of the portrait, Henry was seen to come upon the scene. He began to abuse Bill, and it resulted in Bill shooting him In the leg and cutting him in the head and neck. Henry also did some cutting, not having cheek enough to turn first one and then the other to be carved up. Thus the end of this cutting up becomes newspaper clipping.
 City Court
 In the first division, in the case of L. A. A Wilson vs. the Mayor and Aldermen of Birmingham, a judgment of $25 was ren- dered by consent
 The case of Howard Going, pro ami, vs. the Alabama Steel and Wire Company is on trial. This is a suit for $50O0 damages for loss of plaintiffs finger.
 In the second division judgment of $5 and costs was rendered in the suit of J. H Wallace, trustee, vs. w. T. Newberry. A judgment for defendant was rendered in the case of c. C. Bates vs. John Brown ing, certiorari by defendant.
 The case of Andrew J. Ellard vs. P. F. and Hattie Martin was dismissed by plaint- if
 The case of M. Clifford and Annie Cliff ford, doing business as the Florence Hotel, vs. the Alabama State Fair and Agricul- tural Association, defendant, a company having no connection with the present Ala bama State Fair Association, Is on trial. Plaintiffs are contesting the right to some funds in the hands of the garnishee, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, due by said road to the Alabama State Fair Asso- citation.
 A SulC was lieu yesterday py IloDeIt A. Morris as administrator of the estate of George w. Hathcock, against the Palos coal Company for $9O,OOO damages. Plaint- if claims that on December 12, 1899, his in testate was caused to go into mine of de- tendant at Paos with view of becoming a servant, and that part of the roof of the mine fell upon him and so injured him that he died.
 Probate Court
 Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Frank Woolsey Lawson and Marion Emmett Douglass; Fred John Sheppard and Bessie Blinn; Naton Flesher and Annie Romnanick; Edward Ward and Mollie Keat- ing; Ed Moore and Ezze Minor.
 Judge Stiles was occupied yesterday in hearing a contest over the estate of Otis Doss His nephews and nieces are contest ing the right of the widow to the personal property.
 Criminal Court p The cases against Lucy Williams and Jessie Ware for abusive language were mol pressed. Henry Turner was acquitted of assault and battery with weapon w. H. '"Grahams bond was forfeited and an alias warrant issued.
 Comic Smith, charged with defamation of character was acquitted. Hattie Sanders was found not guilty of assault with weapon J. D. Cole pleaded guilty to as- sault and battery and was fined $l and costs John Jones, charged with carrying concealed pistol, had his bond forfeited and an alias warrant was issued.
 Court Items
 Chancellor Carmichael will hold court Thursday on his return from Tuscaloosa.
 Returns for taxation are coming in rap idly in the tax assessors office.
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