The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19
TO HANG IN OCTOBER
DATE OF EXECUTION OF TWO
 NEGROES FIXED.
Starkes and Means to Pay Penalty for Murder of Elem Foster. Sentence Passed Upon
 Other Criminals.

Unless the Supreme Court of Alabama reverses the Montgomery CiIy Court VIII Star6s and Alex 4deans, negroes, Will De hanged in the yard Of the Montgomery County Jail on "Wednesday, October l. for the murder of Elem Foster. negro
 Judge w. II. Thomas Of tuc City Court yestel day Se,ittnCed furty-tnree prisoners convicted during the July term ot lhe court Sta"Kes dnC Ieans were among thr number.
 Starkes and Means were convicted of murder in the first degree, and Juuge Thomas sentenced them {" be hanged on October 1. The two negroes received the sentence with the same CUmpOSure that marked the reading of the death warrant in their case. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
 These men were convicted of the mur- der of Elem Foster, d negro, who was killed several months ago at C. E. Stan ford s store in beat 10, Montgomery County Starkes and Means confessed to the jalers at the county jail that Starkes fired the shot that killed Foster They said they were burglariZing the store or MT Stanford and nearing footsteps on the road, they thought Wr. Stanford was coming to investigate some noise they had made in breaking in. They looked out and seeing man approachihg With light Starkes fired a shot gun and killed Foster.
 The following other convicted crimi- naIs were sentenced by Judge Thomas:
 Tom Dozier, grand larceny. one year and one day.
 Joe Moore, grand larceny, twenty-four days
 Bobb Prickett. assault and battery. 22s days.
 Win Springer, petit larceny, 2s6 days.
 Fred Strong, grand larceny. one year and one day.
 John Ross, grand larceny, three years. Henry Young. burglary, two years.
 Lon Jordan. petit larceny. ten months and twenty days. Sam Hardaway, petit larceny. 307 days. Peter Hill, assault to murder, three years.
 Lizzie Mitchell, abusive language, eighty-three days.
 Charles Coleman, carrying concealed brass knuckles. go days three months Jim Nix. murder in the second degree. ten years. Nix was convicted of killing another negro near Riverside last Decem- Der.
 Ebert Dixon. murder second degree. twenty-five years. appealed. Dixon was convicted of killing a negro at a negro barbecue in Cloverdale on July f.
 George Ann. assault and battery, 13l days.
 Henry Brazil, petit larceny. one year and one day.
 Minnie Baldwin, grand larceny, one year and one day.
 Lee Cooper. grand larceny, three years. Aaron Davenport, 271 days.
 Porter Franklin, grand larceny. three years.
 Ed Flint, grand larceny, three years.
 Sam Gilmer, petit larceny. 161 days.
 Reuben Howard. petit larceny, 155 days and nine months.
 William James, grand larceny, three years.
 Albert Jones, grand larceny, three years. Eugene Shell, grand larceny, two years.
 Charles Lane, grand larceny, one year and one day.
 Robert Johnson carrying concealed pis- tol, eighty-six days and three months.
 Robert King. grand larceny, one year and one day.
 Clement Taylor petit larceny. III days. Abe Thompson, assault to murder, two years.
 John Williams, grand larceny, two years Will Ellsberry, petit larceny. 2O3 days.
 Morris Jackson. manslaughter in the second degree. thirteen months.
 Hilliard Taylor burglary and larceny. five years.
 Edwin Woodson. burglary, three years. Will Jackson, petit larceny, ninety-four days.
 Warren Jones, assault and battery, 304 days.
 Hymas Shaver, carrying concealed pis- tol. 27S days.
 Reuben Hunter. petit larceny, 26S days. Twenty-Five of these prisoners were sent yesterday afternoon to the mines of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company and three were sent to Wetumpka to begin serving the sentences imposed.