The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-30
VERDICT OF JURY
 ANGERS PEOPLE Dissatisfaction Over Result of Williams Murder Trial FRED MOORE ETURNSHOME Ex-Baron Tells His Side of the Case. Pensacola Has a Violent Electric
 Storm-Sailboat capszes
 In SquaI.
 
FRED MOORE RE TURNS HOME

Pensacola, Fla, August 29.-(Special)- No verdict ever rendered by jury in any court has excited the indignation of the masses as did that in the Williams murder case. The condemnation was uni versal, and talks of a radical change of the jury system are still to be heard on all sides. The fact that a majority of the jurors were from the rural districts has aroused the country people, who are very anxious that the impression that these men represent the intelligent coun- try people Should not be made. They are more bitter than any others on what they designate a 'travesty on justice"
 After the trial of Williams for the mur- der of John White the indictment for the killing of Edwin Dansby was read and he was asked to plead. Judge Reeves de- fendant's counsel, refused to allow the prisoner to plead, but offered instead a document setting forth that the killing of White and Dansby was one offense, were identical committed at the same time, etc. This was objected to by States At torney Kehoe. when the document was withdrawn and the prisoner pleaded not guilty.
 Judge Reeves then moved for a change of venue on the ground that the prisoner could not get fair trial in Escambia county. Judge Carter granted the mo- ton and the case was sent to Jackson county and the time set for November Is. This means an added expense to this county of more than $5000.
 Manager Len Le Baron of the Western Union Telegraph company met with a very painful accident recently. He was repairing some wires that were not work ing we'll and climbed on a cabinet to reach them. He lost his balance and fell, striking his forehead on the edge of the cabinet, cutting a large gash over his right eye and rendering him unconscious. The wound was not dangerous, though very painful.
 Fred Moore has returned home after his strike against the Barons and tells his version of the affair to sympathizing friends. According to his tale the club agreed to pay the players certain monthly salary, and then for alleged vio- latfons of club rules most of the salary would remain in the clubs treasury in the shape of fines.
 Pensacola was recently visited by an electrical storm of rather unusual vio- lence. A Greek fruit merchant was standing near the door of his store at the time of greatest severity. He was struck by lightning and rendered uncon- scious but ultimately recovered. Quite a number of people were inside the build ing all of whom felt the shock, but none seriously. The flag staff on the Louis- vile and Nashville elevator was struck and torn into kindling wood, the bolt passing down and tearing up considerable roofing. Segari's bath house was also struck and much damage done.
 Rufus Pearl, living at the Navy Yard had his sailboat to capsize in a severe squall recently and would have had a watery grave but for the prompt action of the sailors on the monitor Amphitrlte and gunboat Wasp. Each vessel inn mediately sent boat to the rescue. The Wasp's boat crew reached the capsized boat first and after taking MT. Pearl aboard, lowed his boat to the yard.
 The revenue cutter Hamilton is engaged in patrolling the gulf between Pensacola and Mobile in the national quarantine service The local cutter Penrose will all so be placed in the same service as soon as she comes off the dock at the navy yard where she Is undergoing some nec- essary repairs. The steamer Tarpon, ply ing between Mobile, Pensacola, S. An drews, Carrabelle and Apalachicola now has to go to quarantine for fumigation after every weekly trip to Mobile.
 
 c. c. Dickens, claiming to be a travel ing man from Mobile. was routed out of bed at 1 o'clock Sunday morning and taken to the pest house north of the city Dickens reached Flomaton just as the train was leaving for Pensacola. He made a run for 1t and caught it, but the officers caught him at A local hotel where he refused to register.
 Sheriff Van PeItFhad quite bonfire in the back yard ofethe county jail not many days since, whfn in pursuance of the or der of the cririinal court he broke up and burned several thousands of dollars worth of gambling paraphernalia captur- ed in raids pn the gambling dens.
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