The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-11
Advertiser Bureau,
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Mobile, July 10.
 In the City Court, Hon. o. J. Semmes presiding, the first call on the docket this morning after the regular juries for the week had been empanelled, was the State of Alabama versus John El- lis. murder. McAlpine and Robinson appeared for the defense, while Hon. J. II. Webb. the County Solicitor, was present to represent the State. A spe- cial venire had been drawn, aside from the regular one, and from these the jury of twelve men was to be drawn.
 Aside from the veniremen and wit nesses there were many spectators present, drawn thither through curi- osity, because of the fact that a white man was to be tried for his life. Among the interested ones in court were the wife of the dead man. Frank Jouillan. and Mrs. Ellis, wife of the defendant. his son and daughter, who arrived here last evening from Oklahoma.
 The crime with which Ellis was charged and for which he was indicted for murder, was the killing of Frank Jouillan, a Mobilian, at his roadhouse on the Bay Shell Road a few weeks since. Ellis, after the shooting, was arrested in the restricted district and taken to police headquarters. When the preliminary trial was held Ellis was remanded without bail. The grand
 
 dictment for murder
 The jury was secured at noon, as fol- lows: Charles R. Blalack, Forest Kimball. Samuel A. Ettelson, Mather McGuire. Jr.. Richard Gambler. Jos eph Goodloe. Henry J. Dickinson. John Klass. Athanase Ponquinette, Daniel H. Dure. David Karlborn, James M. Penny.
 After Solicitor Webb persented the States showing. MT. Robinson for the defense made a showing in which self defense was the plea. Three witness es for the State were introduced for the State before recess for dinner. on re-assembling other witnesses for the prosecution were introduced. The principal witness for the defense was the defendant himself. About ten character witnesses were introduced by the defense to show that Joullian was a desperate man. At 7:30 o'clock the defense rested and the rebuttal be- gan. At o'clock. tonight after the evil dence had been taken, Judge Semmes ordered the jury locked up and court adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. .:. . Willie Dickens and Ashley Morgan. white, are in the county jail. held pend ing the results of wounds lnIlIcted upon Henry Douglass. negro. Late Satur- day night, at Pritchard, north of this city on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, the two white men went to a store. An idiotic negro was there and one of the men leased him. An other negro interposed and the men, as given out by one of the arresting oftl- cers, Deputy Sheriff Patch, turned on the negro Douglass.
 After the smoke cleared away Doug lass was found to have four knife cuts in the back and a pistol shot wound in the right breast below the nipple. Douglass was taken to the City Hos pital and Dickens a Id Morgan arrested by Deputies Patch, Green and Will Powers.
 The negro is in bad way Morgan has pistol shot wound in his left arm which, he asserts, was made by the negro.
 Following is a statement of the rel ative amount of foreign trade to and from the port of Mobile for the fiscal years epdinS June 30, 1904, and June 30. 1905:
 19o4.... .... ..s4,311,249 l905.... .... .... 4,250, 0,914 l904.... .... 16,SS4,611 | ~~NS'' 1o,Ui t, Q oo ] Vessels Engaged in Foreign Trade 1 Entered.
 | Year Number Tonnage | l9O4.... .... ....760 5S7,104 l'oo o'... .... ....72V 614,l24 l .-.*. ..:~: Cleared. "# Year " :. *.+@- Number Tonnage 19O4.... ... .... ....755 595,74S l9oo.... .... ...,6 692 GOA. .664 Totals Imports and Exports
 19o5.... .... .. ... .S2o.352, PAY Totals Imports and Exports
 l9O4.... .... .... .... 2l,195, ,S6O Increase over 1904 .s1.156.3S7