The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-08
PRELIMINARY TRIAL IS GIVEN ANDERSON Is Charged With Killing Edward
 Boykin BAPTIST CASE COMES UP
Mrs. Laura Coleman Passes Away In Selma-Strike Breakers Spirited Away During the Night.
 Other Selma News.


 Selma, November 7.-(Special.) 1.-The pre- | liminary hearing of R. A. Anderson. charged with the killing of Edward Boy l kin, was commenced at noon today be- | fore Justice l. D. Lloyd. The killing oc- cured Friday night at the fair grounds, both of the parties being extra officers | of the day al the fair. The killing oc- cured, so it was stated at the time, over | Anderson taking Boyllin for a thief, who had returned for an overcoat from which a pistol had been stolen. Boyllin had | been watching the coat expecting the thief to show up, but went off. On his re- | turn he went to. the place where he had | left the coat to see if it was still there. | when Anderson fired upon him.
 The dead mans two brothers from Rus | sell county are in the city and have em- ployed w. w. Quarles and Craig x Craig to prosecute Anderson. The trial was be- gun at noon, and only one witness was put on the stand, MT. Sherrin Brislin, | who removed the body from the fair grounds and prepared it for burial. While | Mr. Brislin was still on the stand the adjournment for dinner was taken. After 1 dinner the trial was continued until night. It will possibly require several days. | It is evident that a rigid investigation | is to be made into the killing as the att | torneys for the prosecution have long | list of witnesses and will attempt to show that the killing practically bordered on | willful murder.
 | The dead man was a brother of w. J. Boykin of Gadsden, formerly member of the state senate of Alabama.
 Baptist Church Suit. Practically all of the time of the United I States court today was taken up in the argument on the pleadings in the case of the Selma Baptist church vs. the Uni ted States Fidelity and Guarantee com pany of Baltimore.
 The Baptist church let a contract on December 13 1901, to H. NJ Johnson, a contractor, for the erection of the pres ent magnificent church edifice. The con- | tract which was for $33,0O0 was let upon the contractor giving bond in the sum of $l00O0 for the faithful carrying out of the contract After about $17,OOO had been paid on the contract by the church, MT. John son threw up the contract and the church i officers fell back upon the guarantee l bond company for the $10,000.
 i The case has been in the courts ever since, and is being hotly contested.
 Death of an Aged Woman.
 Yesterday afternoon occurred the death | of Mrs. Laura Coleman at the home in this city of her daughter, Mrs. J. H. l Rogers Mrs. Coleman had been i'll for | some time and the end did not come | unexpectedly, but it brought sorrow to
 
 has gone to her reward. Mrs. Coleman was the daughter of Prof. Elijah Cole man. who, before the war taught school | at Orrville. She was herself a teacher for thirty years and many of the young | men of today owe their success to her excellent training. She was twice mar ried. first to A. c. Mobley and then to James Coleman. She is survived by two daughters besides Mrs. Rogers. Both live i in Texas The funeral took place this morning, the interment being in Live Oak cemetery.
 Strike Breakers Spirited Away.
 Monday morning some thirty-odd ma chinists employed at the Southern Rail | way shops who had been out on a strike 1 for four weeks, went back to work While | the strike was pending twenty-two strike breakers from Chicago had been brought 1 to the city and coralled in the shops. They | slept ana Ted In the shops, DoX cars haV- ing been fitted up for their accommodate ! ton.
 When the strike was over the "break- CTS" on preparing to leave the city ex- hibted some apprehension fearing that 1 although they had not been molested while here, somebody might do violence as they were leaving. Such an inten- ton had of course, never been even l thought of by any of those connected with the strike, for the men conducted | themselves with the utmost decorum dur ing the entire time it was pending.
 The railroad company. however in or der to allay any worry by the men whom they had brought here under contract decided to send them on their way on | special car and accordingly yesterday morning about 1 o'clock a coach was backed into the shops and the men were loaded on it, and with several special |