The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
ARTILLERY DISPLAY
MANY PISTOLS IN SELMA POLICE
 COURT.
Nearly . D0xen Negroes Were Fined by Acting Mayor Peacock for CarrytnE COncealed Pistols
 on Christmaa.
Advertiser Bureau.


 Almost enough pistols with which to start gun store were used as exhibits In the session of the police court this morning. But of all of the weapons on exhibition not one of them was taken from the person of q white man.
 They had all been taken from ne- groes. who had been arrested for vari- aAs offenses and ali of the weapons sere of the modern patterns and werc In good condition. All of them were Of large calibre. too, and the barrel on one or two of them resembled more the barrel upon a rifle than those that should have been on pistol When the session of police court opened this morning the court room was crowded. Through the windows i on the east side of the room the sun shone bright and warm upon the motly assembly, whose shade of color was black. There was a so a dark feeling l in the hearts of most of the offenders and an unsavory taste in their mouths. | It was typical crowd of law-breakers, such as Is always seen in police court the morning after Christmas. There were about thirty cases on the docket of the court for trial. Several of the cases were dismissed and a num- Der Of them postponed for a hearing until some future day. But in most Of the cases tried there was a convi 'tion
  sessed reached to the figures of s460. In most of the cases tried there figured a pistol of some sort and 1t Is won- der that there was not four or five murders committed instead of there not having been any one hurt. ! Sanford Caldwell, the negro who yes terday morning hit white man. Tom Phillips, over the head in Hogan's AL ley, was tried on a warrant charTins him with carrying a concealed weapon. The trial resulted Ia a conviction and a fne of $45 or ninety days on the streets was assessed. The case against him charging him with assault with a weapon was postponed until tomor- row morning.
 Elias Leishs. q negro. answered to the charge of having on his person a concealed pistol. The case was proven to the satisfacti l of Acting Mayor Peacock and a fine of $45 or ninety days on the streets was imposed William Thomas. an old negro from the country. was arrested by an onlcsr for having a pistol concealed To the eoar- he stated that he left home be- fore daylight and that 1t would have hssn dark before he returned ho re. tad that he mad carried the weapon for Protection as there has been quite a number of robberies in his neighbor- hood of late. The Mayor took co n- passion upon the old negro and let hlm 2n with a light fine of S25 or hfty days on the streets.
 Mill Brooks. a negro. was charged with an assault with weapon. He statc1 that some negroes had insulted his wife Monday night and that he had ovestaken and took Il shot at them. He was fined S45 or ninety days on the streets.
 Charles Miihous, a negro. for dis- charging firearms in the city limits was fined s25 or fifty days on th9 streets.
 charging firearms Tn the city linn ts was also fined $25 or fifty days on the streets.
 Jerry Turner. q negro. misbehaved upon the Akron train on the Southern Railway. He was arrested by the con- ductOr. Captain Sledge, who turnei him over to an officer who lodged the hip fine Of $45 was assessed
 Dan Park, a negro. took four geese from the saloon Of Louis Rosenberg to take to the iatter's homo. On the 1 way with the geese he sad mat he had { misplaced them and offered to pay for 1 the same, A warrant charging him 1 with larceny was sworn out against him and he was convicted for that of- i ferse and fined s25.
 | Frank Tompkins. a negro, answered to the charge of disorderly conduct. He plead guilty.
 Emmett Purnell. a negro. had a war rant against him charging him with disorderly conduct. He hit a negro wo- man Saturday night with some heavy implement but afterwards straighten- ed the matter out with her and the lat ter appeared in court this morning and tried to compromise the case. The lcompromise was effected by PurnelI paying the city $20.
 l Annie Brantley, Coleman Brantley and Lee Brantley. for an affray were fined $5 each. On the same charge Isam Lyman and Fate Tate paid the same amount. Another case upon the same charge was tried against Carl Steele and James Bennett. Tho former was fined s5 and the latter was fined lS1O.