The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-29
WORK OF FIREBUG
INvEsTICATION or THE JACKSON
 WILLIE JATL FIRE,
CorOner's Jury Deuzures That Gala bO0se Was EwmakNd to XIII Negro, Who Wa@ Conhned Within
 Chrfstmaa Eve

Anniston, Dec. 2s-t Special )--Fronl the verdict of the sEoroner's jury 1t is tho death of the negro. Riohard Walk CT, who was burned In the city jail at Jacksonville, Monday night, may re. veal the work of incendiaries and mean an indictment for murder In the
 The verdict of the jury Is to the ef- feet that persons unknown to the Jury caused the death of the negro. Coro. ner J. l.. Murphy spent two days al Jacksonville and examined the site and negro.s death. The verdict follows. 'Jacksonvflle, Dec. 26, 1906. We the coroner's jury. duly sworn and empaneled to inquire into the iden- human body brought before us on De, cember 2b, 1906, after making dtligenl inquiry; ind that it, is the body ,oi was burned to death in the Jackson vile city jail or calaboose on the evening of December 24, 1908. by some person or persons to the jgry unfnoWn " Porter, D. ]. Privett, c. A. Hollings- worth c. N. Arnold, Jury! J. L. Mur'
 1t is said that the negro was arrest ed for wife beating and that some en- emies of his set fire to the place, while others believe he set fire to escape s Saort the a Tes snd ays he SsS at the hands of unknown parties: When the body of the negro was found nothing remained but his trunk. his limbs having been burned away.
 The Louisville and Nashville Rati. road has notified the city officials and manufacturers that beginning January i, Anniston will be placed on an equal footing with Birmingham in regard to freight rates. This city will get as cheap coal, as cheap iron ore, as cheap
 4 p5s any ryTaad 1easr rasss rs cerned. as it's big and prosperous neighbor. For years there has n9t been carried to citizens more well which was more portentious for. good to the city. Anniston has already reached a proud position as an indus face of a great disadvantage in freight rate discrimination. The announced coming of the Seaboard to the city few months ago. and the removal pr so far as that road was concerned, mas doubtless influenced the L. and N 10
 Sad indeed is the misfortune that has befallen Mir. and Mrs. Jim Hughes formerly of this city. but now resld- ing at Newman Ga, who left tnelr home and little ones in the tn +bia Gsre c;fy Sr Monday evening for a brief visit to Mir. Hughes's parents on west FiL- teenth Street.
 
 a message fforA home informing them that their little 7.yearSoid daughter, one of the twins, had been burned 10 death In the Geornia honea while hap pily playing in front of 2 grate nrs, this city this nlorning and carried to Rock Run. where they were buried to-
 A sad misfortune befsll MT: and Mrs Tom Gflpin of DeArmanvilIe, when their infant child was burned to death in the house before the fire place yesterday. Laying the child, well wrapped in some. quilts on some chairs before the fire the parents went out of the house on some mission, ana were gone for some ti9e. When they returned they found the quilts and the child's clothing in flames and the baby already dead. Such alarm was created by the unfortunate accident, 1t is said, and so much excited were the parents of the little one that they forgot fur ther. danger from the ire, and 1t was making rapid headway toward de- strOying the house when nod discoyersd ed passing, and who rushed in and put it out.