The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-15
PRISONERS BEFORE BAR
FORTY-sIx SENTENCED BY JUDGE THOMAS.
jamin, . Negro, Who Has Appeal edLDr. Cameron Goes to
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 It was sentence day yesterday in the criminal division of the City Court. Some forty-six prisoners had their sen- tences pronounced and today the Mont gomery County jail will cease to have a surplus population.
 The prisoners who were arraigned yesterday morning before Judge Thom- as were the prisoners who had been convicted at the July term of the City Court. No more sessions of the crimi- nal division of this court will be held until the October term begins, al- though the July term closes by opera tion of the law on August 20.
 It was a bad day for negro murder CTS. of which there had seemed to be an unusually large number up for trial during the July term. For the crime of murder. one negro was sentenced to be hanged and four others were sem fenced to serve life terms in the peni- tentiary.
 The death sentence was pronounced upon Tom Benjamin who killed Will wingate on Peacock's Tract Under the sentence as pronounced by Judge Thomas. Benjamin was to be hanged on September 20, but the sentence has been suspended pending an appeal which the attorneys for Benjamin an- nounced they would make. The bill of exceptions for the appeal must be sub mitted before October 1.
 The other convicted murderers who will spend their lives in the peniten- tiary are Jim Captain. for killing Ne lissa Wright in Beat 12. George Whitehurst. who killed William Can't on Peacock's Tract. Arthur Ray who killed Ed Lewis at Mt. Meigs, and Mil ton ONeal who killed Lucius Baker in North Montgomery.
 On Alex Lide. who was convicted of two capital offenses an aggregate sen tence of fifty years was pronounced Lide was found guilty of both robbery and rape and given a sentence of twenty-five years in each case.
 A heavy sentence was pronounced upon R. NJ. Hall. a white man, for the offense of carrying a concealed pistol Hall. who was also convicted of forg- cry and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. was given a sentence of 162 days at hard labor for carrying a concealed pistol.
 II. John Cameron, the white man who came to Montgomery from Coosa County. with a story of the rich gold mine he had found In that County. was sentenced to 201 days at hard labor for the false checks he had cashed  mines.
 The prisoners sentenced yesterday were as follows:
 Aaron Brooks. arson. 2ss days hard labor.
 Lucius Tate, assault and battery. 174 days hard labor.
 Will Jones, assault and battery, ten months and twenty days hard labor.
 H. John Cameron. false pretenses, 201 days hard labor.
 Nose Jackson. grand larceny, three years in penitentiary.
 R. D. Wilson, embezzlement, five years in the penitentiary.
 Ed. Jackson, assault and battery, 249 days in penitentiary.
 Ed. Jackson. gaming. ninety days hard labor.
 R. NJ. Hall, carrying concealed pis- tol. 162 days hard labor.
 Peter Relf and woodley Relf, burg lary, three years each in penitentiary. years in penitentiary.
 R. NJ. Hall. forgery. four years in penitentiary.
 Henry Lowe. concealed pistol, 2ll days hard labor.
 Clarence Powell. burglary, two years in penitentiary.
 Julius Marks. grand larceny, eighteen months Tn penltentlary.
 John Wells, petit larceny. no days hard labor.
 Andrew O'Neal. assault and battery 24S days hard labor
 Will Smith. assault to murder, two years in penitentiary.
 Matte Coleman, grand larceny, four years fin penitentiary.
 Sadie Burke. burglary. two years in penitentiary.
 John McReynolds. forgery. two cases, two years In penitentiary in each case.
 Dunk Duncan. grand larceny, two years in penitentiary.
 Jessie Fitzpatrick. grand larceny, three years in penitentiary.
 Henry Hall grand larceny, three years in penitentiary.
 Albert Hardy grand larceny, two years in penitentiary.
 Tom Simmons. carrying concealed pistol. 2o9 days hard labor.
 Tom Simmons. assault to murder, fifteen years in penitentiary.
 Henry Harris, rape, twenty years in the penitentiary.
 Jim Captain. murder, life imprison- ment.
 George Whitehurst. murder, life i'm prisonment
 Arthur Ray. murder. life imprison- ment. ...
 Milton o'Neal. murder. life imprison- ment.
 Tom Benjamin. to be hanged Sep tember 20. 1905; appealed.
 Alex Lide. robbery. twenty-five years in penitentiary.
 Alex Lde, rape, twenty-five years in penitentiary
 Tom Bell burglary, one year and one day In penitentiary.
 Hammond Bullard. grand larceny, two years In the penitentiary.
 Jerry Craig, grand larceny, four years in the penitentiary.
 VIII Coleman, grand larceny. one year and one day in penitentiary.
 Essex Pruitt burglary. two years and six months in penitentiary.
 Jessie Evans. burglary. three years in penitentiary.
 Robert Johnson, grand larceny, fir- teen months in the penitentiary
 Alice Malone. manslaughtcr in sec- ond degree, thirteen months and fifty days hard labor
 Boisie Pompey. concealed pistol, 252 days hard. labor.
 Jeff Sledge, assault to murder, ten years in penitentiary.
 Mary Wiley, assault to murder, two years and 238 days hard labor.
 Buster Freeman, burglary. six years and six months in the penitentiary.
 John Alexander. burglary two years and six months in penitentiary.
 Doctor Joe. assault and battery. l1s days hard labor
 Will Freeman. burglary, two years Tn the penitentiary.
 Jim Ross. assault and battery, I'll days hard labor.
 James Watts, assault to murder. two years in the penitentiary.