The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-07
The News of Selma.

tent to murder must serve three years.
 The court found him guilty of steal- ing a pistol from Selma hardware store, carrying 1t concealed and Of shooting at a Mir. Campbell, sales man in the store, who followed Mahan and attempted to take the pistol from him.
 Dan Collins was convicted jointly with Monroe Gardner of petty larceny. Gardner paid the fine of $1Oo, but Col lins in default must labor in the coun- ty thirty days for the ofense and l0T days for $32.20, one-half of the costs in the case. 1t was charged that the two negroes stole cotton from house on the plantation of MT. Watts, near this city. R
 Devotie Palmer's onense was forg- cry, and he pleaded guilty. He forged his brothers name to a note on which he procured $1 from a merchant. He was sentenced to two years of hard labor in the county plus 131 days which will cover costs in the amount of $31.S5.
 Bob White pleaded guilty to the charge of grand larceny and his sem tence was one year with 137 days to cover $41.1O costs. He stole whiskey from a wholsale house.
 Paul Chapman, a negro youth, was sentenced to hard labor in the county for one year and 1S1 days for SSs.25 costs. in the first case of burglary, and one year and 12S days to cover $SS.60 costs in the second case.
 Jerry Burden, charged with and found guilty of burglarizing a freight car in railroad yards in this city, was sentenced to hard labor for one year. He must also serve 161 days additional to defray $4s.35 costs.
 Frank Stewart must work in the county for fifteen months plus 167 days to cover $50.05 costs. He was found guilty of burglarizing the store Of Stewart and Fulner.
 City Prisoner Makes Escape.
 ''Foncy' Williams, serving sentence on the streets, for burglary, this morn ing escaped from the city prison and has not been apprehended. He was gone two or three hours before his ab- sence was discovered
 Williams escaped early this morning when Policeman White went into the prison to wake Joe Simmons, a trusty who was serving temporarily as cook. His cell was unlocked and Simmons was charged with aiding him to escape This morning Simmons was given twenty days for criminal carelessness The policemen went to the extreme end of the prison to arouse Simmons and evidence goes to show that at that time Williams, who was evidently out of his cell. went out the door, slipped across the bridge into the city building and made his way to the street by a side entrance.
 That was at 4:s0 o'clock Simmons, who had the keys to the cells, says he let Williams out of the cell thirty min utes prior to that and while waiting for the latter to go back into the cell, fell acleep.
 Williams has given the police abund- ance of trouble. He was serving a term under an assumed name when the police proved him guilty of burglariz- Ing Doster's grocery store. pr. Willingham to Preach.
 Dr. R. J. Willingham of Richmond, Va. will Tuesday night preach to the Baptists of this city at the First Bap- tist Church. From Selma he will go to Montgomery.
 Dr. Willingham Is secretary of the foreign mission board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and is said to be a very able and eloquent speaker
 Durham Blackwell Fined.
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