The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-29
Advertiser Bureau .

Information, concerning the pecuhaFf death of a white man by the name oL Dennis, which occurred near Catts. an Marengo County. Saturday night, was learned here this morning from passen- gers on the Louisville and NasnVlie train from Linden. Catts IS a q snnan, ', lumber town in Marengo, ana the saw number of negro laborers and 10 rev white men. There Is also a ioggng road running out from the saw l.l mlii several miles where logs are loaded on the cars and hauled to the saw mlil where they are sawed. Dennis IS salo to have been an engineer on this los- fife Information concerning the pecu- liar death of Dennis is to the effect that on Saturday night he left the mlli a1ter supper and went several miles 10 ne, party. Every Saturday night there IS q big crap game going on in the mouse and last Saturday night was no exceP- tton. There was congregated Tn the house nearly every negro in the coun- try who lived around the mill. Dennis walked into the house and as soon as possible took hand in the game "ith
 Soon atfer he arrived he called for a plate of ice cream The ice cream was handed to him and he he ate ,n,3n |, ana eskan esrl wards he fell over on the floor and died without struggle, This frightened the assembled crowd of negroes ana
 
 of them leaving their money lying on fhe floor Dennis's remains were later taken to his room and yesterday at- ternoon 1t is stated that they were in- tered without the death having been investigated by the coroner of the county. "A, of the people around Catts that Dennis was poisoned. the poison having been administered to him in the ice cream that he ate, but there are others who ~ I4 tnA A and the man 'lied from A sudden attack of heart failure It seems that ne pore a good reputation and was known to pc an industrious workman and a good mechanic. It could not be learned whether the county authorities will in vestigate the sudden death of the man or not.
 In Police Court.
 The Monday morning docket in Po- lice Court was very light today and m all there were only four eases up for trial before Mayor Atkins. All of the four cases were for minor offenses ana three of them resulted in a conVictlon while the fourth case was dismissed. The session resulted in fines amount " Henry Boyd is a little negro boy who loves to throw rocks. It was not ms first appearance in police court as his mother stated. Last Friday another negro boy who was nursing the little son of MT and Mrs. w. R. Shafer was playinK in front of the Broad Street presbyterian Church. The Boyd boy pfcked up a rock and threw 1t at the little negro who was nursing the child. If he had not caught the rock 1t would have hit the child. The little negro was arrested on the charge of disor- derly conduct and fine of $15 or thir- ty days on the streets was assessed against him.
 Albert Myers. a young white man. got drunk yesterday afternoon and tried to take charge of the flying Jen- ny at the corner of North and Sylvan Streets. He was finally placed In cab and brought to police headuuar- ters This morning he asked the mercy of the court and stated that 1t was his first offense and promised never to get drunk again. A fine of $5 was placed against him.
 A negro woman had a negro by the name of Gus Childress arrested for slander. The police court has no juris- diction over such case and the case was dismissed.