The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-22
M'COY'S FIRST STORY.
SAID $500 WAS DEMANDED BY
 CoUNCILMEN.
MT. Felix Wood Tells of Conversa-
 ton With Him-council Had Decided to Make an Investigation.
Advertiser Bureau,

Advertiser Bureau,
 Selma, Oct. T, 1901.
 The following telegram from Alexander City was published in Sundays Adver- tiser:
 Alexander City. Ala. Oct. 1s The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgom-
 cry, Ala:
 saw article in this mornings Adver- tiser stating that at Selma a Councilman had demanded of me $25o for running a wheel of chance. There Is not a word of truth in it, so please correct 1t.
 J. E. Mccoy.
 This was an answer to the item of news published in Saturdays Advertiser in the Selma department stating that Mccoy had said that he had been approached f by a councilman. who offered to protect him in his gambling device on the street for the sum of S25o
 Your correspondent was very careful tc 1 investigate the matter before the item was put in print. The correspondents ! informant was Mir. Felix M. Wood, as l honorable and truthful a man as there is | in Dallas County. He was seen by youi | representative this morning and asked about the matter. He said:
 'I was at the court house at the timt assisting Judge Pitts in some little mat ters. I was approached by Mccoy. Nc | Coy came up to where I was at worl and stated that a certain councilman (mentioning his name) had been to hin and said that he would protect him 1T his chance scheme for the sum of $3O and wanted me to go and square" thu matter with the councilman, and If could not do that, he asked for reduc ton of $26 a day, on his license. "I told him that had nothing to dc with the State license, that the law said that he must pay $1o0 per day and ht could not get a reduction along that line I then referred him to MT. Mel anf several other Eiks and told him to ge and see them and that they would assist him to straighten matters out. that was very busy at that time and could moi get down town before Il o'clock" Mccoy then informed me that he had what he took in on his devices. From what Mir. Wood says 1t would seem that the only mistake that your correspondent made was In putting tho sum that Mccoy says was demanded ol him at S250 instead of $500. Mccoy, in his telegram says that there is not a word of truth in It." There Is not man. wo man or child in Selma but who will be- live that Felix Wood has told the trutf about what transpired between him ane Mccoy at the court house. For the honol of the city and good good name of tn. City Council, your correspondent Is glac that he has denied what he told MT Wood.
 The article in The Advertiser Sunday was widely discussed and the City Coun cilmen proposed to investigate the charge but since Mccoy has gone back on his statement there Is nothing to investigate Mccoy run his devices on the streets about two days, but as soon as Mayor Mcleod learned what he was doing he closed him up. After he was closed uI Mccoy went to the entrance to the Stree I Fair and bought 10 cent ticket to get IT the grounds and paid the Elk $40 for 1t.
 The lodge of Elks was very mucf wrought up over the alleged action or councilman in demanding protectior money from Mccoy, and but Tor tn' above telegram from him at Alexander City. denying the whole thing. an inves l tigstion would have followed.