The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-18
AFTER BLIND TIGER
JUDGE MILLER's CHARGE. TIC
GRAND JURY.
Declares That In Every Beat In Dshss
County TAese IL Church. schooi
and wildcat Whiskey
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Advertiser Bureau,
Selma, Sept, II.
..rhe greatest evil which menaees
vour community today. is the blind
tigers" Thus spoke Judge B. M Mill
err Of the Circuit Court Of Dallas Coun-
ty. to the grand jury which had Deeh
empannelled a few minutes before.
10 the grand jury he discussed TINS
evil in its many and varied forms anu
pointed out the fact most clearly that
they would be wilfully- neglecting tneir /,
anty a. citizens of the county and as
grand Jurors IL they did not try 70
find these blind tiger keepers ana
make them face the law so that proper
punishment could be dealt out to them
He told the jury that in every COM
munity in the county that there was
church, a school house and oiind us-
er. The churches were for the pur-
pose of keeping the moral ana rensious
welfare of the people and that the
school houses Joined hands with tne
church and tried and did elevate the
moral and educational standard or the
community. But that while these tWo
great Institutions were working HAND
in hand for the betterment of the nu
man race the blind tigers on the otner
hand were doing all they possibly .couid
to degrade every community in which
they were located.
He told of how this morning before
the court had convened that a citizen
of the county had handed In to the
! solicitor a list of names OF men wnom
he said could give the grand jury IN
formation about blind tigers that were
being operated every day in the county.
The man had asked that his name
be not mentioned as the power of the
owners of the tigers were SO great
that he was afraid of them.
| The charge which Judge Miller de-
! livered to the grand Jury. upon the
blind tiger evil was most forcible
| one and each Juror was deeply I'M
pressed with the charge. When the
venire II Jurors were called after the
, opening of the court besides the regu-
/ lar questions which they were asked
| to qualify with he asked the venire II
! there was man present who objected
to the laws which enforced and pro-
: hibited the carrying of concealed weap-
on. Not juror objected and then he
asked them a second question which
| was did any of them object to the en-
forcement of the prohibition law or
/ Dallas County.
Previous to this part of the charge on
blind tigers, Judge Miller touched up
most forcibly the toter of concealed
! weapons and the menace such a prac-
tice was to the lives and safety of the
residents of the community He also
| took UP the catalogue of the many 9TH
| err crimes which would probably come
up before the deliberations of the jury
during It's session.
The fall term of the Circuit Court OF
! Dallas County convened at ~ o'clock
| today with Judge Miller presiding Az
ter the court had been called to or
der. Rev. A, A. Little. pastor of the
' Broad Street PRESBYTERIAN Church. at
the request of Judge Miller, offered UP
ia PRAYER to the Judge of the Universe.
The prayer was. an able one and was
1 listened to with the closest attention
by those in the court room.
! After the prayer the regular order
before the court was taken up The
: grand jury was then empannelled and
consists of the following citizens
Henry Lilienthal, foreman; w. s.
Blandon. Jacob Topper, WIN. Thorn
as, M. Russell. Samuel D. Nicely. e
i Calhoun Edwards. James w. Johnson
i j. G. P. Heinz, Hugh Hopper. r. L.
I Key. A. P. Land, William Kirby, Johr
H. Crawford. T. G.. MILAN, William w
Baton, J. D. Moseley and J. B
Moore
grand jury three petit juries were ther
drawn. These juries will be used OIL
the civil docket Of the court, which will
consume the week.
| Cases Again Continued.
The three cases OF burglary agains
the negro Cater Woods were agaii
called In police court this morning
For the second time the city was no
ready for the defendant to go to tria
and the cases were postponed for
hearing until next Thursday morning
| The cases against the negro wa.
brought to the attention of the grant
jury today by a private citizen. and Il
that body finds an indictment agains
Woods before Thursday the cases
against him will not be heard in DO
lice court.
In connection with the cases agains
Woods for burglary the police depart
ment have Issued a warrant for burg
larry against another negro, Pearl,
Turner. Turner was arrested yester
day and his case was also continued
this morning until next Thursda,
morning. The police hope to connec
him with the robbery of the Pitts res
idence which occurred last week. AT
ter the session of police court thi
morning both Woods and Turner wer
sent to the County jail for safe keep
ing
Each day that passes now brings I,
light new robberteS which when the,
occurred, the police department KEEP
quiet. Articles which were stolei
from four of the places have been re
covered and Woods has confessed t.
} having entered the houses. He ha
confessed to having entered many o
the houses which ii was not know
before had been visited by thieves
These confessions are believed as Their
seems to be kind similarity connect
ed with each case.
An Attempted Robbery.
An attempt was made at an eaSl.
hour last night by thief to rob thu
residence of Col. j. w. Moore on Selnl;
but was scared away before he coult
secure anything of value.
Early last night Miss Bird Moor
and Miss Mable Tissier were sitting OIL
the front porch of the residence. n,
one else was in the house. They ha,
been sitting on the front porch but
short while when they heard some on
moving about in one of the rooms.
The two young women went in TIL
house to see what was causing tn
noise and arrived just in time to see
negro man go out the back way. The,
quickly gave the alarm and the blood
hounds from the county jail were tele
phoned for but the hounds would no
| take the trail of the intruder.
Death of Miss Lee.
At her home near Carlowville yes
tcrday there occurred the death of Mis-
Regena Lee, an old and highly respect
| ed resident of this county. The de
| ceased WAS nearly 90 wears of age ar