The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-31
TO BE TRIED FOR LIVES
PRISONERS ARRANGED
 AT COURTS BAR.
Unusual Number of Capital Cases to Be Heard by Montgomery Court-- other News of the
 COurfs.

Seventeen capital eases to be tried during the October term of the crim- inai division of the City Court of Mont romery were yesterday set down for trial by Judge W. H. Thomas.
 The number of cases for which q mans life may be forfeited Is abnormal for Montgomery County. Fourteen men are charged with murder and three with rape. So unusual Is the number of cases that two weeks will be de- derers and rapists. The first capital case will be called November s7 and the last December '.
 The cases are set as follows.
 November 27-will Dowdell, rape; Richard Young. murder.
 November 2s--oolden Willis. rape: Henry Cook. murder.
 November 29--J. D. Glass and Frank Bedsole. murder.
 November s0--Ellison Stacks. rape; William Sheets. murder. December 1---Sidney Davis. murder.
 December 4---Jim Burks. murder; Henry Bird, murder.
 December 5--Jim Butler. murder; Ma than Lamb, murder.
 December 6--Thomas Maiioy, Rass Barnes and Andrew chambiiss, murder.
 December 7-Een Pratt murder.
 Three of the defendants are white men. William Sheets. T. D. Glass and Frank Bedsole. Glass and Bedsoie are charged with the murder of Morris L. Rutherford in West End, and Sheets is charged with the murder of his son on
 Tae prisoners were arraigned yester- day before Judge W. H. Thomas and their cases were set for trial.
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 Several Criminal Cases.
 Cases appealed from the City Record CTS Court were taken up yesterday in ths criminal division of the City Court of Montgomery. Judge W. H. Thomas presiding.
 Most of the cases disposed of were of minor importance, disorderly conduct being the most popular charge.
 In the case of Sam cartledge. the we'll known man about town. charged with disposing of brass watches under pretense that they were gold, was con- tinied by the city on account of the absence of A. c. Biese of Selma, the man who swore out the original war rant against Cartiedge,
 Other cases were disposed of as fol- lows: J. R. Langley. walking with prostitute. mol pressed; c. S. Dismukes. disorderly conduct, not guilty; J. c. Cleveland and W. s. Mccombs. disor- derly conduct. not guilty; Caio Brown and Douglass White, lettering. not guilty.
 The jurors for the week were as fol- lows:
 Jury No. IA. A. Stoddard. A. L. Moore, J. H. Cheatham, D. D. McDuffie, B. F. Gouldsby. l.. L. Judkins, M. D. Gibson. D. J. Frazier. s. 4. Merritt, J, W. Powell. M. Strauss.
 Jury No 2. 0ncomplete)-Ed Senior. W. W. Tobias, Joseph McClarkin. H. c. Howard.
 To Argue for County.
 Hon. Jesse F. stallfngs of Birming- ham and Hon W. L. Martin of Mont gomery left the city yesterday for Washington, where they will argue for the defendant the case of John T. Coch- ran and the Fidelity and Deposit Com pany of Maryland, plaintiffs in error, vs. the County of Montgomery, before the Supreme Court of the United States.
 It will be remembered that this is a suit on the bond of Treasurer Cochran caused by the failure of the Josiah Nor ris Bank. After two reversals by the Court of Appeals. the United States Court for the Middle District of Ala bam1 granted Q judgment for the amount sued for Part of this judg- ment was paid after the Appellate Court had affirmed the case. writ of certiorarl was then secured and the litigation was taken to the nations highest court