The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-14
"ALABAMA MAN-HUNT"
STATE OFFICIALS DENOUNCE
 STORY AS FABRICATION.
Baseball Writer For a New York News paper Connected Sensational Ar- ticle Without Any F0un-
 dation of Fact.

If Clark Griffith, manager, and his baseball players from New York will enjoy in a few days a bloodhound man. hunt at the expense of Alabama life convicts as prognosticated in The New York Evening Mail and other sen- sation loving newspapers of the East Judge J. M. Carmichael, President of the State Board of Convict Inspectors is in the dark.
 The correspondent of The New York Mail in Montgomery, travelling with the American League baseball team one MT. James, sent to his newspaper several days ago an advance story of a cross-country man-hunt to take place around Montgomery in a few days When the event was heralded in the newspapers of the East 1t blossomed into a picture of two life convicts es- pecially trained. chased by a pack of gomerys best clubmen" in pursuit, all for the edification of the Gotham wis itors on the practice of how criminals are captured in this State.
 Acting Governor Cunningham when shown the newspaper article denounced 1t as the fabrication of a lisordered imagination"
 President Carmichael of the Convict Board was little less serious, but as pointed. He. too. was shown the ar ticle,
 Could such q thing have the sane tion of the board?" the President was asked.
 There was a moment of hesitation He was visibly perturbed by either the monstrosity of the phantasy or sympathy for the faculties of the writer.
 Such an event could not take place with Alabama convicts," firmly replied President Carmichael. All I can say is that if I had full control of the situ- ation I would rather put the dogs to the baseball men for the edification of the convicts than the other way. find that the convicts are useful to the State. The others are not"
 It is needless to say that President Carmichael is against baseball. It is a fact that if baseball is the national sport and 1t were regarded as unpa- triotic to oppose it he would soon be called a traitor. It's only the pfo- fessionals, however, that incur the an- tipathy of the President of the Convict Board.
 The article which appeared in The New York Mail found it's way, of course, to Cincinnati, Pittsburg and other cities. It gained wide circula~ ton and has misled the minds of many in the North who are taking 1t for fact rather than fiction.
 Mayor Thomas II. Carr has received two communications, one protesting against the man-hunt and the other saving the article was beyond the cre- dulity of Southerner living in Pitts burg.
 The following letter was received by the Mayor from F. M. Burrows of Pitts burg. a Virginian by birth, enclosing n clipping from The Pittsburg Ga zette, which produced the man-hunt story:
 ''The Honorable Mayor of Montgomery:
 "Sir-I enclose clipping from Pitts burg Gazette of this date. As the pa pers generally in this section of the country seem to take great delight In misrepresenting the Southern people q am a Virginian), I will thank you if you will let me know if this is not an- other attempt. Who is The Gazette correspondent? I do not believe the statement. Very respectfully.
 F. M. Burrows"
 The second letter to the Mayor is from "an American" of PlaInfield, N. J.:
 ITO His Honor. the Mayor of Mont
 gomery. Ala:
 "A New York paper-Evening Mail prints a statement that a 'man-hunt is proposed as an entertainment for the N. Y. A. League baseball team.
 "As one who for years lived in a college town and who realizes that our young men need uplifting, manly sports worthy of Christian, American gentlemen, I beg to call your atten- tfon to the aforesaid entertainment in tbe name of Him who died for ali and who bids us pray for those who sin. Can anything but harm come when