The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-06
DAVE WILLIAMS IS
CAUGHT AT LAST
Gave Officers Much Trouble
Although Injured
SPEECH BY DR.. G. W. YOUNG
Effort to Be Made to Arouse Interest
In the Anti-Saloon Move
ment-NeWs of
Ensley.

Ensley. March 5.--(special)-Dav Will
Jams, the negro who escaped from Of
ficers at Bessemer last Saturday night,
knocked down a marshal at Brighton and
escaped from a Bessemer ear under
rapid gun fire of the conductor after he
had already been shot through and
through by a Bessemer officer when he
was first arrested, was captured by Chief
of Police sugg in the office of Dr. Hen.
don in this city today at noon.
The negro had called at the Doctors
office for medical attention and the mat
ter was reported to the chief of police,
who went and put the man under arrest.
Later in the day Chief Of Police Jones, of
Bessemer. came for the prisoner and
carried him to that city, where he is
wanted for petty larceny and assaultng
an officer. 1t is believed that Williams
Is wanted for some grave crime in some
other section Of the country.
Steals a Clock.
Saturday afternoon Williams attempted
to pawn a clock to a pawn broker ON
Second avenue. The pawn broker sus-
peeting that the negro had stolen the
timepiece, told him that if he would
produce a receipt for the sale OF the
clock he would let him have something
on it. This request frightened the negro
for the reason that he had really stolen
the clock from Little's furniture store
a short time before, and he made an in
slant dash for the door. On his way
out he stumbled and broke a show case
He was arrested by an officer who hap
pened to be in front of the store and
on the way to the city Jail he attacked
the officer with the handouts that had
been placed on his wrists The negro
was so desperate in his attack ON the
officer that he had to shoot him.
Escapes Warden.
The prisoner was carried to the ward
ems office and was laid in what was
thought to be dying condition on the
wardens table. While an officer went
across the hall to call a doctor the negro
was left alone and in this time he arose
and made his escape.
\ short time afterwards he Knocked
down an officer at Brighton who attempt
ed to arrest him. The next heard from
him was when he raised a rough house
in a Bessemer car going into Birmingham
at Fairview. 1t seems that the negro
thought the conductor Intended to arrest
him and he made an assault ON the con-
ductor. The conductor was forced to
use his gun and fired several times at
the negro as he jumped from the ear
and made his escape in the woods.
Chief of Police Sugg had no trouble in
taking him in charge today. The negro
is shot through the body and also has
a severe wound in the hand.
Mass Meeting.
The citizens of Ensley interested in the
anti-saloon movement will hold mass
meeting at the First Presbyterian church
tomorrow night which will be a pre-
liminary to the larger meeting to be held
Wednesday night, when the Rev. DR.. G,
W. Young. of Kentucky, assistant gen
eral superintendent of the American Anti
Saloon league will lecture.
The object of DIR. Youngs lecture will
be to interest the people of this city and
section in the movement in the state to
enact local option laws and to further
and it is expected that the attendance
at the mass meeting tomorrow night and
the lecture Wednesday night will be very
large
The Anti-Saloon league is doing con-
siderable work in many of the states of
the United States, and it is said that
the league hopes to accomplish great
work in Alabama. The first work that
will be attempted in this state will be
the passage of a general local option law
whereby each county will decide If liquor
shall be sold in that county. Such a
law, it is claimed. would take the mat
ter out of the hands of the politicians
and leave it entirely in the hands of the
people in each county.
A number of addresses will be made
at the mass meeting tomorrow night on
the objects of the movement by local
men interested in the work, and it is
possible that at the meeting Wednesday
night a permanent local organization of
people interested in the movement will
be perfected.
To Improve Mail Service.
The local authorities have taken up the
matter of expediting the receipt of mails
at the Ensley postoffice and if the move
ment is successful the mails should be
delivered I'm this city from one to two
hours earlier than at the present time.
Under the present arrangement all the
mails for the Ensley postoffice must
come through the Birmingham postofhce
and be distributed before they are dis
patched to this city. This causes a delay
of several hours.
II is claimed that If the mails intended
for this city are put into separate pouch
es before they reach Birmingham they
can be dispatched at once to Ensley
without the present delay. resolution
to this effect was adopted by the city
council at the last meeting at which
Congressman Underwood has been asked
to take the matter up with the postoffce
department at Washington
1t is believed that the change will be
made and will not only be a matter of
great convenience to the people of this
city but will also relieve the postofhce
officials at Birmingham of considerable
unnecessary work.
Valves Preliminary
William Overmark. the white boy charg-
ed with shooting Albert Sykes. a young
white boy at Fairview about two weeks
ago, waived preliminary hearing before
Mayor n w. Scott In police court this
morning.
1t is claimed that the shooting was ac-
cidental aud was the result Of promiscu-
Gus shooting which WAS being INDUCED
in by a number Of boys near the station
at .Farvlew.
Young Sykes was ON his way from Ems