The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-04-24
Andrew Carnegie Gives 100000
To Booker T. WaSkingtOn'S School

n EW York. April 2s-The trustees of
IN the Tuskegee Normal and Indus
trial Institute in Alabama have
received 100000 towards the endowment
fund from Andrew Carnegie, who attend
ed the recent meeting in behalf of the In
stitute. where ex-President Grover Cleve-
land presided.
The trustees will meet soon to take
formal action in accepting the gift, and
at the same time to take measures to
! still further increase the endowment.
reads as follows:
New York, April II, 1908.
William IL Baldwin, Jr., Trustee:
MY Dear Friend-I have instructed
| Mr.. Franks, my cashier, to deliver to you
as trustee OF Tuskegee institute six hum
dred thousand dollars. five per cent Uni
! ted States Steel company first mortgage
bonds toward the endowment fund
.
up a leather pouch which had shot in 1t.
A SIungshot.
| 1t had leather handle and 1t is known
as slungshot. 1 saw place in it where
1t had been broken open. Havls and Wise
| had gone when I went back. When the
third shot was fired | heard some one say,
ut is all over" Lathem was doing moth
ing when the men were hitting him. l
/ heard his eye glasses fall and break. The
position of the men was this way, Wise
was on one side of Lathem and Havis on
the other side, Lathem being between the
| two men.
At this point diagram of the scene of
the shooting was handed witness, who
examined it and pronounced it correct.
He showed where the bullet holes were
in the walls one on the left of the closet
door, the other in the wall at another
angle
Continuing witness testified.
l heard Lathem say, Il want to be
man and do the right thing. This was
all of the conversation l heard. l was
not paying much attention to them.
Here witness stood up and pointing to
the prisoners identified them as Wise and
Hayis, the men who were in the lobby
with Lathem.
/ Cross examination by Mr.. Shugart:
/ Before the shooting l had got to the
! front office. where | went behind the
counter The clerk there, Judson Carter
was getting out of the way. l do not
know where he was when the first shot
was fired. When l saw Lathem his face
was to the floor There was a pistol un-
der him, near his right hand and under
his right side
Redirect examination:
| / did not see Lathem draw a pistol at
any time and did not see him with a pis-
tol until l saw one under him after he
was dead. policeman came in and
took this pistol The pistol was under his
right side and pointing towards the bar
] do not know whether he had his hand
on it or not.
The next witness called was Burel
Wiksie the elevator boy, who was on
duty when the shooting occurred. Ex-
| animation by Judge Banks. Witness
said:
Elevator Boy.
/ I am employed as elevator boy at the
Morris hotel. I was running the elevator
Friday, April IT. l knew Mr. Elias La
them and saw him on that day. I knew
Mr. Wise by his face and Mr.. Havis by
his face.
Here the witness stood up and pointed
out the two prisoners, Identifying them
| as the men whom he referred to In his
! testimony. Continuing the witness said:
/ saw Mr. Wise and Mr.. Havis at the
hotel Friday morning about o'clock
They were In the lobby of the hotel Mr.
Havis went to the door of room number
1 81, on the third floor. He was at the
door of the room when ] saw him.
heard him turning the knob of the door
! and knocking. He asked me. If Lathem
was in and | told him | did MT think So
I had seen Mr.. Wise at the elevator a lit
tie before this. Mr.. Havis did not go up
in the elevator with me. When Mr.. Wise
was at the elevator he said to me. You
go up to room 81 and tell the gentleman
with the white hat on to come down
stairs He gave me % cents and I went
up. Mr. Havis had on a white hat and
I delivered the message.
When I went down on the elevator
found Mr.. Wise and Mr.. Lathem at the
bottom. Mr.. Havis got out of the e1eva-
tor. They all walked off towards the pri-
vate office near the Nineteenth street en-
trance to the hotel. They stopped near
the private office and Mr. Lathem kind
OF leaned up against a trunk Mr.. Wise
was in front of him. They stood there an
hour or an hour and half. was taxi
ing trips up and down In the elevator.
heard a scuffle and saw the clerk run