The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-07
HELD UP AND ROBBED in
CHICAGO MASONIC TEMPLE

slant death and forced to go down on his
knees and open his safe.
The men forced the victim to open his
safe as well as the show cese containing
the 1ewelry. He was then locked In q
small closet used as lavatory. No one
saw the maurauders, their quick 1ntimi-
dation of the jeweler being followed inn
mediately in drawing down the curtain
covering the large window looking out
on the Masonic Temple rotunda.
didates for state offices, ana then district,
circuit and division candidates, and last
the candidates for county offices and sub
divisions of the county. In all cases, ex-
cept for county offices, the county execu-
tive committee of each county shall certi-
fly in writing to the executive committee
of the state or the district or the circuit
or the division, as the case may be, the
number of votes cast for each such can
didate; and such certificate shall be
signed by the officers who presided over
said committee at the time such vote was
counted, and by the secretary of such
committed and shall be by them for
warded by mail within two days after
said count to the chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the state, the district.
the circuit or division, as the case may
be- Such certificate shall be made In trip
licate, one of which shall be retained by
the chairman and one by the secretary Of
the respective county committees, to be
used in event that the one sent by mail
should be lost or mislaid.
H. For the purpose Of performing the
duties prescribed by the next preceding
section, the county committees through
out the state shall meet at their respec-
tive county seas at noon on the Thursday
next succeeding said primary election.
15 The various county executive COM
mittees shall preserve all ballots and poll
lists and all returns which shall come to
the committee for the period of thirty
days after said meeting. In case any con-
test is instituted. such ballots, poll lists
and all returns shall be delivered to the
committee before which such contest may
be pending, upon the demand Of the chair
man thereof.
Shall Count the Vote.
16. Said county committees shall, at the
meetings provided for in the preceding
section. proceed to count the votes for
candidates for state, district circuit and
division nominations, in the order named.
before proceeding to consider the votes for
candidates for county offices, and for sub
divisions Of counties.
meet in Montgomery, on the second We'd
nesday after the date of such April cleo
ton, and, In the absence of any contest,
shall proceed to audit and declare the re-
suit of such election. In event any con-
test is instituted, the committee shall
hear and determine such contest.
49, All district. circuit and division COM
mittees shall meet on the Monday next
succeeding such primary election and at
such hour and place as such committee or
the chairman thereof respectively shall
designate. and, in the absence of any con-
test, shall proceed to audit and declare
the result. In the event any contest Is
Instituted, the committee shall hear and
determine such contest
49, Nothing herein contained shall be
construed to deprive the state executive
committee of it's appellate and supervisory
Jurisdiction.
90 Each candidate for office shall. at
least twenty days prior to the primary
election provided for, file with the
chairman or secretary of the committee
or the committeeman having charge and
control of the territory in which such
candidate is to be voted for. declaration
in writing of his candidacy in the form
hereinafter prescribed. and such declara-
ton shall, before being filed as aforesaid,
be sworn to and subscribed before an offl-
Ger authorized to administer oaths.
/, A. b. , the undersigned, who be-
ing first duly sworn, do depose and say
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