The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-14
COUCH IS
 REMINDED ID JAIL Bond is Refused in Trial of
 HabeaS Corpus IS CHARGED WITH MURDER The Decaturs Are Interested In Dis pensary Movement-EIecton May
 Be Held on Proposition at
 an Early Date.
IS CHARGED WITH MURDER

Decatur. June 13.-(Special)-Late this afternoon Circuit Judge D. w Speake remanded Perce Couch to jail without bond after a habeas corpus trial lasting two days. Couch is charged with having shot and killed Police Officer William A. Baber in this city on July 1 last year. Some of the most prominent lawyers in North Alabama are employed In the case. Couch has been in jail here since the kill ing.
 The special from Bessemer appeared In yesterdays paper saying that Mayor H. A. Skeggs of Decatur and Mir Comp ton, both candidates for associated state railroad commissioners, would speak in Bessemer on next Saturday night. June 16, is an error.
 MT. Skeggs was asked today in refer ence to the matter. and he stated that the report was a mistake, and was not made on his authority. MT. Skeggs left to- day for south Alabama in the interest of his candidacy He will be absent all week.
 To Entertain Tennesseans.
 Mayor Henry A. Skeggs received let ter this morning from E. S. Sharmon secretary of the Nashville Board of Trade saying that the members of that 1ody who will make a commercial tour of the south and will reach Decatur or the morning of June 19 about 8 o'clock. and that they will remain in this city about one hour and a half
 The Business Mems league of Decatur and the Commercial club of New Decatur are making arrangements for the enter tainment of the distinguished visitors while they are in the Decaturs.
 The visitors will be given trolley ride over the two Decaturs. and will be shown the various manufacturing plants of the two cities Several short speeches will be made during the stop here.
 The party will go from here to Brming- ham. They will arrive in Decatur iron. Huntsville over the Southern railroad.
 A man W no gave his name as J. H. Hall, and wi,o IS supposed to be a professional cheat and all round grafter, is wanted by some of the business men of the De- caturs for passing worthless drafts.
 The drafts were signed Robert M. Hun ter, Chief Engineer" and were drawn on a Memphis publishing house. Hall claimed that he was working with q
 
 in making survey of the land between Decatur and Cullman. for the Louisville and Nashville railroad with the view to the establishment of number of parks by the company
 | So far as can be learned no such party of engineers have been working between Decatur and Cullman.
 The checks cashed by Hall here were small ones, the amounts being about s each His method was to go into a cloth ing store and buy a few articles and then tender a check in payment and re- ceive a few dollars in change. DIspensary Movement. A dspensary movement has been started in the Decaturs, but the promoters say that they are not yet in position to give out any information as to what Is doing along this line. It is under stood. however, that the prohibition peo- pie will favor dispensary for the De- caturs
 A few years ago this question came up in the Decaturs and at that time there was quite a strong sentiment in favor of dispensary, but the prohibit tion people did not favor a dispensary, saying they were for straight out proh- bition or nothing. As a result nothing came of either the prohibition or dispen- sary movement at that time. 1t is said i now. however, that all who are opposed to open saloons will stand for dspen- sary.
 The Decaturs are the only two towns in the county where whisky is sold.
 While nothing has been given out as yet by the anti-saloon people as to what they will do in regard to supporting can didates for the legislature and the state senate it is said that they will not re- qure the candidates for these offices to announce themselves in favor of a dis pensary.
 It seems to be the general belief that the people will be allowed to vote on the question of whether there is to be a dis pensary or not in the Decaturs and the vote to be confined to the Decaturs. since liquor is not sold in any other part of the county.
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