The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-09
NEGRO THIEF MAY
 BE THE MURDERER
SCOTT WINFIELD BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED DEPUTY ABER- NATHY-ARREsTED FOR STEAL. ING FROM FRISCO CARS.

A negro going under the name of Will Harris. arrested yesterday morning by Detective Patton, charged with stealing from cars in the Frisco freight yards, proved. upon arrival at the county jaii to be Scott Winfield, the negro who is thought to have killed Deputy Sheriff E. R. Abernathy in raid on a crap game at Littleton Saturday night August IS. By two other negroes now in jail, c. w. Ward, alias Shorty and Ed Strickland, who were In the game, Harris Is posi- lively identified as Scott Winfield, the same on whom Deputy Abernathy was placing handcuffs when the light was put out, and the deputy was shot.
 Harris admits that hs name, among others, is Winfield, but he denies that he was In the game at Littleton. Ward said last night that he did not see Win field have a pistol, that he himself got out of the house before the shooting took place, but that when he last saw Win field, just before the lamp on the floor was turned over, about which the game was in progress he was standing close to the deputy, who had put the hand cuffs on only one of his wrists. An in- stant after that, Ward said, all was darkness, and shots were fired. Deputy Abernathy emptied his pistol, dying with 1t gripped in his hand He was wounded twice. Ward and Strickland were caught several hours later.
 Winfield, alias Harris. made his es- cape
 He was arrested yesterday on a charge of burglary and grand larceny from the Frisco cars. Stealing there has been go- ing on for some time, the last reported was Saturday night, when several boxes of women's and children's shoes were missed. Detective Patton went to work on the case and yesterday when Harris went to suburban store, 1t is said and offered to sell about forty pairs of shoes he was taken In custody. Before Justice l. H. Benners a warrant was sworn out the negro's bond being fixed at $500. He was locked up in the county jail. r. was there that the two prisoners saw him and identified him as Scott Winfield who was In the Gap game with them at Little field when Deputy Abernathy raided it and was killed
 ~-~--~ ~~-~~-~~-~-~--~>~--- -------- employed m the southern Railway shops in this city laid down their tools this morning and walked out in accordance with telegraphic instructions from Presi- dent Mcconnell of the Machinists' union at Washington The strike is general covering the entire Southern Railway sys- tenn and about thousand men are in volved
 The men demand an increase in wages of 25 cents a day.
 Spartanburg s. C., October S-Five hundred machnists In the Southern rail way shops at Spencer. N. C., went out on strike today. The strikers demand $295 for eight hours work instead of s3 for ten hours work. Officials of the South ern have gone to Spencer to prevent vio- lence when non-union machinists arrive.
 Charleston, S. C., October 8.-Machinists of the Southern railway shops here struck today from headquarters of the union Their places have not yet been filed Between fifty and 100 men are out.
 Knoxville, Tenn, October 8.-Today at noon fifty machinists and seventy five helpers and apprentices went on strike at the Coster shops of the Southern railway, located here The strike was In response to telegrophic advices from the unions representative In Washington in confer ence with Southern railway officials. The local machinsts demanded an increase in wages from s3 for nine hours work to 8 .25 for the same time.