The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-27
Advertiser Bureau.

Ira and Henry Carter, the two ne-
 groes who were brought here from Yel-
 low Pine last night by Special Agent
 Humphrey of the Mobile and Ohio Rail-
 road and lodged in the county jail for
 safe keeping, will remain here until
 the date of their trial They are in-
 carcerated in separate dungeons. Judge
 W. E. Anedrson having issued an order
 for their holding for safe keeping.
 Ira Carter, the negro who used the
 gun and murdered Conductor s. w.
 Askew and seriously wounded Brake
 man Richardson and a negro passen-
 ger with the same charge, makes no
 denial of, his guilt. He speaks freely
 and willingly when approached, and
 says he shot into the car because some
 persons had shot from the train as it
 passed through Yellow Pine on the trip
 to Mobile. Henry Carter. his brother.
 says Ira had nothing to do with the
 shooting. Henry claims that before the train reached Yellow Pine, the con- ductor struck him and drew a gun on him. He jumped off the train below the depot. His statement about being struck by Askew Is given no credence here.
 Hon. W. A. Anderson. Judge of the Circuit Court, this morning received a telegram from Yellow Pine announcing LndJ a pGtltIOn was Delnk 8OItSn up tO ask him to hold special term of court in Washington County to try the Car ters. The petition not having arrived. he could not and would not say what his action would be.
 The following special to The Herald
 was received from Yellow PiPne this morning: ':The citizens of Yellow Pine
 have taken steps to get the Governor
 to call an extra session of the Circuit Court to try the murderers of Conduc- to- Askew. The desire to resort to | lynching ran high, but same was thwarted by a speedy preliminary trial and commitment without bail of both Ira and Henry Carter. The citizenship 1 of this place Is wrought up to the high l est and nothing will be left undone to- | ward convicting and executing the two criminals"
 At the family home, Barnwell, Bald win County, on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs.
 Adeline O. Roche passed away after a brief illness. Deceased was a native
 of Mobile, daughter of John and the
 late Ellen Hickman, and was 30 years of age. Besides her father, she leaves
 three sisters, Mrs. Louisa Kercher of Whistler. Mrs. Ellen Dulaune of Pearl- ington, Miss, and Mrs. Mary Nelson of Barnwel1., Ala, and two brothers. Messrs. John and Eugene Hickman of Slidell, La.
 Capt. W. F. Tebbetts. collector of customs for the port of Mobile, reports
 that at o'clock this morning, while entering his home, at the northeast
 corner of Conception and St. Anthony
 streets, he had a close call from a would-be assassin. The man, a short,
 stocky built, white, stepped from be-
 hind a tree and made a lunge at him
 with an ugly looking knife. Luckily
 he saw the man in time to evade the
 blow. The party, seeing he was baked. made of. Captain Tebbetts could not get a good view of the man.
 A large party of Shriners of Abba
 Temple. this city. left in a private car over the Mobile and Ohio Railroad this morning for Meridian, Miss. They
 went there to be the guests of Amossa Temple and to assist in initiating a large number of candidate tonight | The car had large banners on either side telling who the jolly crowd was l In the party was noticed the following persons: Rev. Edmonds Bennett. Thos IC. Byrne, H. V. Batchelder, Morris Forcheimer, Clarence Hutchinson, J. D. FaIck. Adam Glass, George B. Haas, Isaac Lichtback, Julius Levy