The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-28
NEGRO MURDERER GOES ID ANNISTON Sheriff Woodruff Comes for
 Watts IS CHARGED WITH MURDER William Frazier a Scotch Stone Cut ter, Shot On a Through Freight
 Near Annlston-An Eye
 Witness Talks.
IS CHARGED WITH MURDER

Albert Watts, alias Albert Wertz. the negro who was arrested Sunday morning at Woodlawn, on advice from Calhoun county officials, was carried to Anniston yesterday afternoon by Sheriff M w. Woodruff.
 Watts is wanted for the alleged murder of William Frazier, a Scotch stone cutter on a freight train near Anniston last Thursday night. Watts was the front brakeman on through freight from At lanta, and, 1t is alleged, that he found Frazier on the train stealing a ride and without giving him any show for his life, it Is said, shot him twice, once in the breast and again in the thigh. A third shot was fired, 1t is claimed, but it did not hit the man.
 Frazier was put off a freight train at Bynum, small station ten miles west of Anniston last Thursday night, where he lay all night exposed to the weather The prisoner, Albert Watts, told an Age-Her- aid reporter of having put the man off. but denied that he was shot or injured in way, though he claimed that the man was in a drunken stupor.
 Frazier died from the effect of gun shot wounds Friday evening. and before he died he made a statement charging the front brakeman of the train from which he was forced with shooting him just be- fore they reached Bynum. He gave de- scription of the negro who did the shoot ing, and it tallies with that of Watts. and since Watts admits putting the man off the train. Sheriff Woodruff is eonfi- dent that he is tne guilty party.
 Frazier in his dying statement, accord ing to the statement of Sheriff Woodruff, said that he and another stone cutter by the name of Andy Balfour were on the train when the negro, Watts, came to them just out of Anniston a few miles and ordered them off the train. He four ished pistol in their faces and told them if they did not get off he would shoot them They begged the negro, he said, to allow them to go to the next station, but without answer the negro shot him. He did not know whether his partner, Balfour. was shot or not, but thought 1t possible that he had received the third shot. He did not know what became of his companion at the time he made the statment. Frazier stated that the train was running at full speed when he was shot.
 Frazier was member of the Stone Cut ters' uion and was buried by his local at Anniston
 Albert Watts. the negro charged with the murder. is about 40 years of age, lives at Woodlawn and was employed as a brakeman on the Southern railway.
 Andy Balfour, the man who was on the train when Frazier was shot, says:
 William Frazier and myself were on through freight train last Thursday night coming into Birmingham when, just after passing Anniston, a negro came to us and ordered us to leave the train. The train was running at @ rapid rate and it was impossible for us to get off without in- jury, and when the negro demanded that we jump off we asked permission to stay on until the train reached the next stop Just as we made this request the negro began shooting. He shot three times and then left us. My companion complained that he had been shot in the leg. I did not know that he was shot in the breast and I do not believe he knew it at that time.
 Tn a few minutes the train slowed up and as 1t did so I got off. tried to get Frazier off with me, but could not came on to Birmingham, and did not know of my companions fate until I saw it in The Age-Herald
 T am ready and willing to go to An niston and testify as to all know in the case.'
 Balfour is stone cutter, and is well known in Birmingham