The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-03
TRIED FRAUD ON STATE
AppI1cANTS FOR TEACHERS JOB SECURED ANSWERS.
They Were Negroes of Lowndes and
 Montgomery Counties and Sew y . eral Have Confessed to the ~ 2 E Board of Examiners S"s 4

rno s+ate Board of Examiners O. hoe discovered that negroes o. NTonteomery and Lowndes Couhtles n" Saen nracticing fraud upon the boaIu .,s the examination of teachers TOT cei '' It
 to +o teach in the public schoois' t caleS t ,,asterdav that more than one no has confessed that he fraudulehIlS od tho answers to questions pre- .,arad to be propounded to applicants III sso7at.o< of the criminal statutes oA F>i" bama. .,or os the Board of rvaminers. was interviewed Oy
 sentative of The Advertiser
 the fraud. u,ination papers
 n,ndae County" said MT. Brock' .In Board discovered from the slrli-
 .;t,, og the papers that fraud hau peeA e3,oad About thirty negro teacii7ls in I,owndes were rejected on this yvb9n the Board began to grace tne @ pa ners from Montgomery CouitS' tod discovered that the same persons ,, ,,
 .renared the answers for theSo apPli- cants as had prepared the ans ,,os tt.o onnlicants from Lowndes It was .Ie,nIv evident that some person III Iou,ndes County had given assistance to +ba Montgomery County teachers assistance consisted in placing the a.
 swers at the disposal of the aPphooH.0 and the answers could not nave D
 cured except by lrauu' ,....o -,,forrna-
 CT o+er we obtained positive lnIorHia. of tbis fraud by the confession or t,,a-o1 of the applicants. Some or them eo,oa hefore the Board and confessed thae thev had the questions prior to the eSann- N,n ;nation which is in direct violation or tne criminal statutes' ,..o +%is mat
 "Refore go any further into tnls mat mat ter however, I want to assure you tnas tbera is nothing whatever to sho" e"s o,,idence of wrong-doing upon the part oi S,,oar,ntendent of Education of Mont '.nroerv County, and the Board does Hot eSoiia,,e that he has done anything wrong Tba members of the Board. on the coh- +rarv believe that he is an ethclent anu careful officer. ,,o,,,-
 ..,rbe circumstances justify the conciu- sion that the questions were hrst slVeh o,,t in Lowndes County. There IS no ap- solute proof, however to sustain the coii- clusion. ,so. County went hafore thszRpar@s NRA confessed that the o,,eations were furnished him, together ,,ttb the answers thereto. He said that
 ,,otrnovn negro told him on the morn Ing of the examination that he could TUT nisb him with the answers. The un- Lnown negro, he said, told hln ne couIu nt them from H. A. Carson. we'll set ,.,a . ,eero of Lowndes County. This y.o tr confessing, said that the ques- .,o. .nd answers were later left on his sosi, and he did not know where they ac- tually came from. .,., .,,.
 .0The Board is still investigating lne roatter and 1t may lead to prosecution n'
 Eon. John w. Abercromple' state eu- nerintendent of Education, is chalrman or tba Roard of Examiners of Teachers' Ine otber members of the Board are Messrs s' G w Brock and J. L. Dodson. Ihe N,,astions and answers for examination or ssacbors are sent to the Superlntenuehts ot Education of the different counues or tbe state in sealed packages ana must must ha carefully guarded. There Is heaVy ,,aooItx, attached to the act or slNlhs ou' information bearing upon the answers W lo +bosa questions and this is not the Nle' ~ fine the attention of the Board mas pee" drawn to the practice of fraud
 Mr Brock said that about twenty ne, ,roes in Montgomery County and apou' +birtv negroes in Lowndes County were reteCted by the Board on account or ap' rareut fraud in their examination papers TJa said there was no way to eNPldli how the information leaked out 10 th' neqroes. and emphasized the point Una m white applicants had taken such ai n5,antape of the Board in these counties T1rbe negro. H. A. Carson, to whom ref o-encs was made by MT Brock. is well Lnou,p In the Black Belt of Alabama. H' 1,os a delegate to the Constitutional Con ventton of 1875, and is a man of some m telHgence. Carson was an applicant TOT certificate, and MT. Brock said that nii