The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23
DADEVILLE DOES
 DETECTIVE WORK Superintendent Hill Talks of
 Browns Case QUESTIONS WERE ALL OLD He Offered Them to Professor Jenkins for $25, Who Took the Sheriff
 With Him to the
 Scene.
QUESTIONS WERE ALL OLD

OupeFlntelluelL or GQucdIlOn l. w. E1ll has returned from Dadeville. Ala, where he went to the trial of the man who gave his name as c. w. Brown. and who was charged with trying to sell the questions of the July examination for teachers. Brown. who said that his name was not Brown, but Deese. was found not to have the questions and is now being held at Dadevine on a charge of violating the swindling statutes.
 When brought to trial the accused said his name was Sidney W. Deese, and that he lived at Clopton. in Dale county. Superintendent Hill was shown the list of questions which he had in his posses sion and found that they were from last year, with the dates moved up to this year with a pen. This being ascertained. MT. Hill was excused as a witness for the fact that the questions were not those of the department, which elimi- mated the charge of selling such.
 The list of questions in the possession of Deese were found in an envelope of Thomas Gilbert. printer of Columbus, Ga. He also had in his pocket a pack age marked, ITO be called for by C. A. German, Mobile. The presumption is that these were left with some one in Mobile to be gotten in the name of Cor man when needed
 The capture of Deese was effected in a way to indicate some Sherlock Holmes talent in the Tallapoosa town He of fered to sell to Prof. J. B. Jenkins, a young teacher, the questions for $25. He was to come back the next day on the train and Jenkins was to meet him at the depot and have the money ready This was done, only Jenkins took the sheriff with a warrant along with him. As the train pulled in the man stepped from the coach and met Jenkins with the envelope in his hand. Jenkins had a twenty dollar bill and a five in his hand held so the seller could see them. He passed the envelope containing the fake questions along and Jenkins took them, when the sheriff served the warrant be- fore Jenkins gave him the money.
 Superintendent Hill says that if the questions are secured this year it will be through the county. superintendents. as every other avenue has been stopped
 Report on Bibb County Books.
 In the report of State Examiner J. T. | several errors are discussed and num- Der of sums charged up that have not heretofore been paid Probate Judge w. L. Pratt had not remitted $750 on a mortgage tax: Sheriff E. II. Crawford owed a solicitors fee on a confessed judgment; Tax Collector R. J. Jones was behind sS2.75 and $15.94 on back or es- cape taxes. All of these matters. which are chargeable to bad bookkeeping, were made good when attention was called to | them.
 The $S2.75 was on back tax assessments of 1904, which had 1ot been .snrrred 10 the auditor. The amount was $12 732, with taxes of general S3lSS soldiers $12.75 and school $3S19. The $1594 was on assess ments of escapes in 1903 on s2455 of prop l erty.
 The property of the county is assessed at 50 per cent of it's real value, thinks the examiner.
 These were the officers reported on: Probate Judge W. L. Pruitt. Sheriff E. H. Crawford, Tax Collector R. J. Jones. Tax Assessor T. c. Wallace, ex-Circuit Clerk F. w. Fancher, Circuit Clerk R. L. Avery. Superintendent of Education R. H. Pratt
 Capitol Notes. | The name of the Eureka Foundry and Machine Works of Birmingham has been changed to the Eureka Stove Works. The | secretary of state has been notified. The Alabama Construction company, has been incorporated to maintain rail- road. gas and electric works at Ran burne, a new town that is being built up. The capital is $50,0O0 J. l.. Craven and | associates are incorporators The following tax collectors have made final settlement with the auditor: R. J. Jones. Bibb; J. w. Collins. Hale; J. J. Fowler, Cullman, and M F. Ussery, Ran dolph.
 John A. Darden has been appointed postmaster at Goodwater. Negro In Trouble. | Doc Blalock alias Rev. Parks, was con vlcted today in the United States court on a charge of impersonating pension agents. Though the penalty may be ten years in the penitentiary the judge will very likely let him off much lighter than that.
 | Blalock is a negro He went out from | the city some time ago and met a num- | Der of old negroes and told them that they were entitled to pensions, and that | for 50 cents each he would get them pro- vded for.
 | The negroes who were taken in were | in a class of their own. They were living | outside the city at the house of an old negro woman, who claims to be a voodoo ! doctor.
 To Revive Suits. motion was made in the United States court this morning to revive the suits against the late Col. W. II. Tis- dale against his executors The suits grew out of some matters pertaining to | the administration of the office of Uni ted States marshal, and claims are made l ea. -.a,o ,oopav tha n uac aoonnnta1 far