The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-20
IMPORTANT CASES
 TO COME TO TRIAL
THE CITY COURT OF GADSDEN WILL TAKE UP JACK HUNTERS CASE AND THAT OF YOLANDE DECO.

Gadsden, November 19.-(Special.) )-The criminal term of the city court of Gads- den will begin Monday for three weeks
 term and it will be a term which is un- precedented in the court annals of Etowah county in that eight capital cases of more than usual interest, not only in the city and county but in the state, will be dls-
 posed of. Seven of these are Tor murder and one is for highway robbery There are also number of other cases of pecu- liar interest to the public for the reason that there are cases involving mansauSh-
 ter, thefts forgeries, etc, against persons of once good repute, some of them having
 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 1000 witnesses.
 Jack Hunter, the negro charged with
 the killing of white woman, Mrs. Sarak Smith. will be placed on trial Monday, | 20th. His accomplices in the murder, Vance Garner and will Johnson, will be
 tried Tuesday and Wednesday respective l ly. They will be defended by Col $.
 Henderson, while Solicitor w. J. Martin
 will conduct the prosecution. The defense | has already set up the plea of not guilty. l The three negroes are in jail at Birmlng- l ham where they were taken soon after
 mob tried to get them. Bunk Richardson
 and two negro women are also held in Birmingham. 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 Monday l morning by Sheriff Chandler eitler on 1 the Alabama Great Southern or the Louis | vile and Nashville. Besides his own depu- 1 ties he will be accompanied on his re-
 turn by several Jefferson county deputies, | who are coming mainly as witnesses Inasmuch as the local military com | pany was called out to protect the pris-
 oners shortly after their arrest m after
 wards required to safely escort them out of the city, 1t has been questioned | whether or not Judge Disque will require
 the presence of the militia at the trials. ] This is hardly to be expected since all l feeling seems to have quieted down and 1 the people are in the main anxious for the
 courts to proceed in the regular way. l On next Monday Is scheduled the trial
 of Yolande Degg and others for the mur-
 der of young Aubrey Womack in this
 city last New Years night. Readers oi
 the newspapers are familiar with the
 details of the case in so far as they were
 developed at the preliminary trial of the | woman, but there is always in such cases
 an element of mystery that attracts at. | tention and interest.
 On the following Monday L. II. Pinker- | ton, white man of Attala. will be triel | for the murder of Bill Smith, a negro barber. The killing occurred at a time when the county was stirred up over the l first murder mentioned in this article and circumstances surrounding the affair make | 1t of more than ordinary interest to
 the citizens of Attalla and Gadsden. 1 Frank Hughes is to be tried for highway robbery, which is a capital offense. It ia
 charged that he assaulted Cleveland Rat | clffe in Attalla some months ago. Both
 are white men.