The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27
MCKENZIE MYSTERY
TWO MEN ARE HELD ON SUs-
 PicI0N.
Member of Victorious Gang of Gulf City Crooks Believed so Be EmpIi- caIed in Killing of
 PluMber.
Advertiser Bureau.
 Mobile. Dec. aA


 Mobile Dec. 2s
 The police are stili investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder. at an carly hour yesterday morning. of John Mckenzie. the plumber, who was found with his throat cut from ear to gar in q ditch on the north side of State Street, betwesp Bread and Locust
 No additional facts of importance have been nnsarthsd by the detectives and officers from both the police head quarters and the sherifrs ofkics who are working on the cRsa. but two men are being held at the cIty guard house on suspicion of being inpliA-ted in the crime.
 These two men. W |. Collins and Willie Lewis. two welI-known young white men, were picked up about noon yesterday on charges of disordSrly conduct, hut owing to suspicious that arose with the detectives working on the ease. they are being held on charges of dangerous and suspicious. without ball They were arraigned In the Recorders Court on that charge this morning, but the persecution took continuance in their eases until Fri day.
 Meanwhile, little can be learned that will trace the crime to their door. and the mystery of the brutal murder Is as yet unsolved Ii Is known that one of the men. Lewis. is a member of an as the dirty dozen." and there Is q be- lief not yet substantiated. that Collins is another member of the band.
 Lewis some time ago achieved some local notoriety through stealing some articles from a local infirmary, of which he was an inmate al the time.
 
 Big M0rutpg-After Docket.
 Recorder Clarke this morning faced & big throng in his court room m the police building. there being no less than iS2 eases on the morning.aftsr- Christmas docket in the police court. Nearly all of the cases were for drum kenness and disorderly conduct on Christmas eve and Christmas day. Prac- tically every member Of the police force was present as a witness in one or more cases. and there was big mob of defendants and witnesses that filled the capacious court room
 Judge Clarke must have greatly en- joyed his Christmas repast. as he was in the best If humor, and combined aIlopathic doses of mercy and clemency with homeopathic doses of justice. The result was that nearly all Of the Christ mas ceIebrators escaped with nominal fines, or without any at all Many of those arrested Monday night were re- leased without further punishment. and sl. without any costs. was the normal dne assessed.
 Juvenile Court.
 There is a prospect that the city of Mobile may be provided at the coming session of the Legislature with a "Jn- venile Court law. similar to that in successful operation in many of the larger and more modern cities of the Cpited States. The act. as are those of other cities. Is to apply to "delin. quent' children. who are defined to be either boys or girls under the age of IS who have either vfGiated some law of the State or city, have proven themselves to be incorrigibles. or are lsading such lives that they need the attention Of the authorities
 The purpose of the proposed law Is 10 provide the "care and custody and dis cipline of the child as nearly as may be to that which should be given by it's parents, and that as far as practicable any delinquent child shall be treated, not as a criminal. but as misdiFected and misguided. and needing aid, CD. nouragement and assistance.'
 The proposed law will be introduced in the Legislature by Senator Max Hamburger of Mobile County.
 Social and Personal.
 Very few house keepers find leisure
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