The age-herald., 1900-09-27
BRUTAL BAD BOY
 AND LITTLE GIRL
Criminal Assault Punished With
 Ten Years Imprisonment.
NOTES CASE WITH THE JURY
Will Drake Acquitted of Murder -Twen- ty-Seven Indictments Returned Grand Jury Hard Worked
 Order in Court Room.

In the Jefferson County Criminal Court ] yesterday Frank Perkins, aged A., was l convicted of criminal assault on a 9-year- l old girl and sentenced to the penitentary | for ten years
 Argument was concluded yesterday in
 the Notes case. The jury was charged by | Judge Swayne and retired at 5 o'clock to
 make up their verdict. It is probable a
 verdict will be brought in today. l Assistant United States Attorney David | son ably presented the case for the gov | ernment.
 1 After the Notes case was finished J. M. Scott was put on trial for violating the l postal laws This was a Bessemer case, | where two men had the same name. A | postal order was sent to one and the other | got the money. For satisfactory reasons Judge Swayne instructed the jury to find
 verdict of not guilty without leaving the box.
 A petition in voluntary bankruptcy was | filed yesterday by Frank Mcknight of | Pratt City
 | Probate Court Marriage licenses were issued to J. H.
 
 l den, J. H. Parsons of Bessemer and Anna l A Mason L. B. Hartley of Adger and Ida | Caldwell, s. H. Cheek and Alice Moncrief | G. D. Adams of Blossberg and Mamie Hill A decree was filed yesterday from the City Court of Birmingham in the case of Frank s. White against E. J. Fitts ct al, holding that certain notes amounting 10
 $51S7 10 and endorsed to plaintiff by D. J. and A ho1r wit .,f,, l ment and are entitled to be paid out of the sale of an undivided one-quarter interest l in the southeast quarter of the northwest | quarter and the southwest quarter of sec l tion P, township IS, range west | The Birmingham Trading Company has | filed declaration of incorporation The ineorporators are L. Schulhafer and B. r. Roden of Birmingham and S. B. March of New Orleans.
 The incorporators propose to carry on a liquor business in Birmingham with a cap ital stock of $1000 Circuit Court The Circuit Court was occupied all of yesterday in the tax case of the State vs. l Howard Harrison Iron Company. A sealed verdict will be handed in by the jury and opened this morning. Criminal Court The case of Will Drake, charged with murder, went to the jury at o'clock. At 5 the jury filed into court with verdict of not guilty.
 Child Rape Case The next case taken up was that of Frank Perkins, colored, charged with criminal as sault The prosecutrx is nine and half years old, and the defendant claims to be but fourteen He was convicted by the jury and sen fenced to ten years in the pemtentiary.
 Judge Greene keeps strict order in his court. Four or live auditors yesterday who unduly expressed their feelings were ar rested for contempt. Solicitor Mcqueen is busily engaged&ith the grand jury. There many caseS yet to investigate, and it will probbaly be a month before the jury gets through. Twenty-seVen true bills were returned by them yesterday as follows: Robert How l ard, Leila Jones, w. H. Kitchings, A. Jack l son, alias Will Thomas; Frank Johnson, | alias Will Johnson; Jones Toibert, Joe | Thomas, Joe Williams, Charlie Jones, l Emma Courtney, Johnnie Green, all for | grand larceny; and the following for bur | glary and grand larceny: John Baker, Will l Johnson, Amos Dawson, John Thomas, 1 Clarke Smith, Oliver Shaw, James Mont | gomery, Henry Sanders, Sam Thomas and Bud Wilcox.
 Dudley L. Riley, burglary; West John son, forgery in second degree; Henry | Smith, Tenn Jones, Jerry Reynolds, Peter | Sheppard, all four for assault with intent 1 to murder.
 Henry shelton was the only person lodged in jail yesterday. He is charged with be- ing an accessory to murder.