The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-20
MANY CAPITAL CASES
CRIMINAL TERM OF CITY COURT OF
 GADSDEN.
Seven Persons Will be Arraigned for Murder, While One Will Be Tried on Charge of High
 way Robbery.

Gadsden, Nov. 19.-(Special. )--The criminal term of the City Court of Gadsden will begin Monday for three weeks term and 1t will be a term which is unprecedented in the court annals of Etowah County in that eight capital eases of more than usual interest, not enly in the city and county. but in the State, will be disposed of Seven of these are for murder and one is for highway robbery. There are also a number of other cases of peculiar inter- est to the public for the reason that there are cases involving manslaughter. thefts, forgeries, etc, against persons of once good repute, some of them hay ing stood high in business and social affairs. The last grand jury returned ninety eight true bills. To try all of the cases on docket will require nearly 800 jurymen and much more than 1 1000 witnesses.
 Monday Jack Hunter, the negro charged with the killing of a white wo- man. Mrs. Sarah Smith, will be placed on trial. His accomplices In the mur- der, Vance Garner and will Johnson. will be tried Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. They will be defended by Col. S. Henderson. while Solicitor w. J. Martin will alone conduct the prosecu- tion. The defense has already set up the plea of not guilty. The three ne-
 
 they were taken soon after a mob tried to get them. Bunk Richardson and two negro women are also held in Rlrming- ham. Bunk is supposed to have been one of the principals, but the three are held as witnesses. The negroes will probably be brought to the city this morning by Sheriff Chandler either on the A. G. s. or L. and N. Besides his own deputies he will be accompa- nied on his return by several Jefferson County deputies. who are coming main ly as witnesses.
 Inasmuch as the local military com pany was called out to protect the prisoners shortly after their arrest and afterwards required to safely es- cort them out of the city. it has been questioned whether or not Judge Disque will require the presence of the militia at the trials. This is hardly to be ex- pected since all feeling seems to have quieted down and the people are in the main anxious for the courts to proceed in the regular way.
 On next Monday Is scheduled the trial of Yolande Degg and others for the murder of young Aubrey Womack in this city on last New Years night. Readers of the newspapers are famil- far with the details of the case in so far as they were developed at the pre- liminary trial of the woman, but there is always in such eases an element of mystery that attracts attention and in terest.
 On the following Monday L. H. Pin kerton, white man of Attalla will be tried for the murder of Bill Smith. a negro barber. The killing occurred at a time when the county was stirred up over the first murder mentioned in this articles and circumstances sur sounding the affair make 1t of more than ordinary interest to the citizens of Attalla and Gassnen.
 Frank Hughes Is to be tried for high l way robbery. which is a capital of- l fense. It Is charged that he assault ed Cleveland Radcliffe In Attalla some l months ago. Poth are white men.