The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-22
CORONER ASSUMES ENTIRELY NEW ROLE Appears as Prosecuting Attor-
 ney in Justice Court SOLICITOR NOT AVAILABLE Two Men Are Bound Over for Explo. sion at Adamsville, and Two others
 Are Discharged By Judge
 Abernathy.
SOLICITOR NOT AVAILABLE E

Coroner W. D. Paris yesterday after non played the role of prosecuting attor- ney in an assault with intent to murder trial before Judge H. B. Abernathy. The solicitor did not have a representative present and the coroner represented the state of Alabama, which is something out of the ordinary in a case like this. The trial was that of Columbus Collar, Richard Garrison and Henry Blank and Jim Vermillion. The first and fourth of the four. all of whom reside at Adams vile, a mining town thirteen miles east of Birmingham. were discharged by Judge Abernathy, while Garrison and Blank were bound over for investigation by the grand jury.
 Several days ago the four young men were arrested on warrants sworn out be- fore Judge Samuel L. Weaver of the erim- inal court, by Coroner Paris, it being all legged that they knew something of the explosion of dynamite on the porch of Riley Levi, who is said to be a non union miner, on April 6, at Adamsville. The technical charge aginst the four was assault with intent to murder. In the explosion no one was injured. Coroner Paris stated to the court that h. had spent some time recently in and about Adamsville. Investigating the death of Isaac Weaver, a negro, and the explo- sion of dynamite on the porch of John Alexander, which caused the death oi Alexander's daughter. The investigation Of these cases led up to swearing out war | rants on the Levi case
 Amount of Bond.
 A large number of witnesses were ex- amined at the hearing yesterday after noon. The bonds in each case were orig | inally fixed at 5000 and after Judge Ab- ernathy had signifed his intention of turning Collar and Vermillion loose, and binding over Garrison and Blank, Attor- ney Will Tom White, who represented the defendants said that he thought s2O0 bonds would be high enough. Coroner Paris objected to this, saying that 5000 fin his opinion would not be too high. The court finally decided to confer with the solicitor about the matter and announced that he would fix the amount of bond later.
 DuTluB tHe tDuISt Ol hlS CT <ht7 torney White spoke of the labor troubles in the district. He declared that during the past year he had tried about 4Ot union miners, and that only one or two of these had been convicted. "All of these | charges were brought by the non-union miners" said Attorney White. "Their malice is born in iniquity and they ex- pect the, law to uphold them"
 I to Solicitor. | Coroner Q the court that he had applied . soccitor for legal assistance in trying the cases, but that | he had been refused. AS long as I am Coroner of Jefferson county l shall prose | cute such cases to the end whether l get assistance or not' declared the Coroner.
 "I was engaged in the Mothershed case | and my two assistants have been quite busy, and l had no one to send with the Coroner this afternoon" said Solicitor Harrington P. Hehin. Anyway, there is no law that requires a solicitor to be present at trials in justices courts. The law prescribes that the solicitor and his assistants shall only practice in the crim- | inal court of the county. If I was forced to grant every request for one of my assistants in cases in justice courts, they would not have time to do anything | else