The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-27
THIS NEGRO HAD A GUN
ED. SPANN WAS PEACEFUL WHEN
 POLICE ARRIVED.
Fined By Recorder For Assault and Battery and Dis0rdey1y COnduct--
 Other Paragraphs of Police Work.

Heavily armed, Police Captain sTay- Tor and Mounted Patrolmen Fender grass and Murrell. hastened. at an early hour yesterday morning to house on Norwood street in the southern part of the city where it was said that Ed. Spann, a drunken negro, was terror lzing the neighborhood with a shot- gun.
 About noon Monday. a negro appeared at the police station and told vividly or how Spann had cut the throat Of A wo- man in the vicinity of Norwood street, He swore out 8 warrant charging Spann with assault to murder. The police were looking for the dangerous negro all that day but 1t appeared that Spann had gone several miles into the country where he forcibly took from a negro & double-barrelled shot gun. With weapon in hand, he returned to the Ncrwood street house late Monday night and soon had all of the negroes in the neiehborhood on the run
 When Captain Taylor and the Patrol men arrived on the scene. they had lit- tie difficulty in arresting Spann and taking him to the police staticD Charges of assault to murder and lar ceny of the gun were entered but. at the Recorders trial, 1t was found that Spann had merely scratched the woman whose throat he was alleged to have cut ands that he was drunk when he took the shot gun. The cases were reduced to assault and battery and dis orderly conduct. and the negro was fined s1o and costs in each case
 Jim Holston, small negro buggy boy. was yesterday fined s5 and costs by the Recorder for fnst driving. The hoy was arrested early Sunday night by Patrolman Milas in the vicinity of the First Baptist Church. Miles testi fled that the boy was driving a horse and buggy at between fifteen and twenty miles an hour. The young ne- gro's fine was paid by his emplorer.
 OIIis West, a negro, was yesterday fined $50 and costs by the Recorder for carrying a concealed pistol. West was unable to pay the fine.
 Ellen Lewellen, Emma Robinson and John Newby. negroes, were yesterday fined S5 and costs each by the Re- duct. In difficulty between them Monday night in North Montgomery near Barnes store, the women were painfully cut in tine face.
 Tom Walton, d 13-year old negro ar rested at s:30 o'clock yesterday morn ing by mounted Patrolmen Smith and LaPrade. was fined $5 and costs by the Recorder yesterday afternoon for steal ing oranges from McFadden's grocery store at 121 Houston street.
 Harvey Burns, the negro who cut one of his associates, Charlie Hamilton, Monday afternoon at the corner of De- catur and Grove streets, pleaded guilty to assault and battery yesterday in the Recorders court and was fined s1o ane costs
 C. c. Harwell. the white man who was arrested late Saturday night charged with disorderly conduct in downtown establishment, was yester- day fined g and costs by the record CT.
 B. Katz a white man who vends fruit in wagon. was yesterday fined S1 and costs in the recorders court on charge of obstructing the streets on Court Square. He paid the fine assess ed against him. although he protested that he had stopped only four or five minutes when he was arrested by the police. and That the cause of the de- lay was in order that he might count his cash under the electric light.