The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-22
BANKERS NAME
FORGED BY NEGRO
ANDREW MCCOY, TO GET ANOTHER
NEGRO OUT OF JAIL, WRITES
C. 3. M'coRMAcK's NAME ON A
$500 BOND.

$500 BOND.
Charged with forging the names Of
George b. Mccormack, president of the
American Trust and Savings bank, and
w. A. Mccoy, whose Identity has not yet
been established, Andrew Mccoy a negro
employed by the Pratt Coal company,
was arrested at o'clock last night by
Deputy Sheriff Courson and lodged in the
county Jail.
The negro, Mccoy, went to the jail yes
terday afternoon with a bond for the re-
lease of VIII Spencer, another negro
confined in the county jail under bond
of $500 on a charge of assault with in
tent to murder.
He said he would go down and get
Judge Alternately to sign the bond and
get the signatures of the bondsmen. lie
returned about o'clock with the bond
signed. The names of the bondsmen that
appeared on the document were George
B. Mccormack and w. A. Mccoy"
As soon as Deputy Sheriff Bourson
had examined the bond, he became suspi-
cious He told the negro to come back
after a while. Then he got to work ana
began to investigate. He called up Mr..
Mccormack office on the telephone and
learned that Mr.. Mccormack was out OF
town and had not been in town for sew
eral days. Courson then set out to find
Mccoy. He caught him at o'clock at
the mouth of the Jail alley on Twenty
first street.
The theory at the sheriffs office last
night, was that the negro Mccormack,
knew H. e. Mccormack, secretary-treas-
urer and manager of the Pratt Coal and
Coke company, for whose company he
had worked, and that he forged the bank
er's name in the expectation that If ne
got caught H. e. Mccormack would
protect him.
Last night Mccoy and Spencer slept
in adjoining cells at the county Jail.
bic yard.
The following bids were received for
street paving under improvement ordi-
nances Nos 237 and 2SS:
Nashville Roofing and Paw
ing company -. ...$5S, 7S4.5O
Barber Asphalt and Paving
company :. :. -. 80. DO, ~
eve recommend that the contract be
awarded to the Nashville Roofing ana
Paving company at the following rates:
Bituminous n,aeadam surfacing $l65
per square yard.
Bituminous macadam paving, $l.9O per
square yard.
Vitrined brick paving, $3.50 per square
yard.
Resetting curbing, 81 cents per lineal
foot.
Six inch straigh granite curblng, 40
cents per lineal foot.
six inch curved granite curbing, IS
cents per lineal foot.
Inlets. So each"
Fifth Avenue Paving.
Arguments in the Fifth avenue paving
matter were opened by Alderman Jones
a member of the street committee. He
said that three members of the commit
tee voted in the meeting to award the
contract to the Nashville firm, and two
voted against it.
81 am one of the two" said the al
derman from the Eighth ward. 81 took
the view that some good reason should
first be given why higher bid should
be accepted over lower one. OF course
we all know that the bitumnous mac
adam laid in Birmingham by the Nash
Vile firm has so far proved a success,
but on the other hand, we must remem-
Der that the bid of the Nashville CON
Germ is something over three thousand
dollars higher than that of the Barber
company, the asphalt people. | do not
care to offer minority report but must
vote against the report of the street
committee. so far as Fifth avenue is
concerned"
Chairman Moore.
Chairman Moore in sustaining the report
of the committee stated that an agree