The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-20
RETURNS 243
 INDICTMENTS Jefferson Grand Jury
 Files Report. ELECTION BETToRS ON LIST Citizens of Birmingham Who Wagered Are Included. Missing Election Box Taken Up Before Adjournment of Wsrm sitting
 --Many Matters Taken Up
 for Consideratipn.

The grand jury of Jenerson county today filed its final report in the Grim inal Court and adjourned sine die.
 The report was warm. On account of the warrants not being served. or all cases not being checked in. the full list of indictments was not given out.
 It is understood that large number of indictments were returned against we'll known citizens of Birmingham, Bessemer and other places who bet on the recent election. The jury announce ed 1t had not overlooked Judge Dan 4. Greene's special charge concerning gambling. It was also said in the re- port that the charge with reference to a Democratic primary box Oewisburg) which was lost or stolen the morning after the primary. had not gone by un- noticed.
 This means that at least one of tine total of 243 indictments returned deals with the box which decided the shriev- atty race in this county
 A synopsis of the reL ort shows the following: Four hundred and fifty-one cases were investigated. 243 indictments were returned, 1,293 witnesses were ex- amined, crime in Jefferson County is on tn increase; human life is valued too cheaply by officers; there has been falling off in road tax collections; bed ding in the county jan Is unclean and insufficient; the hospital ward of the county jail is poorly furnished, poorly kept and unsanitary; the county jail needs thorough cleaning; witnesses should be paid par value for scrip; the Board of Revenue should be authorized to borrow enough money to redeem scrip; the facilities for enforcing the | laws in Jefferson County are lnade- Quate; some high officials in the coun- ty should be put on salary; the powers and scope of the Board of Revenue r. x1. A~l .R the special charge concerning the bet ting on the election. This means in- dictments were returned.
 Deputy sheriRs will begin at once serving the indictments It is believed that number of bonds will be required before the end of the week. House Dynamlted. A stick of dynamite was placed under the house of Oscar Kendrick. negro coal miner, near Wylam, late last night and the explosion which followed tore the house almost to splinters. Kend- rick and his mother occupied the house and both were thrown into the air, Kendrick was hurt, but his mother. beyond being frightened is none the worse for the experience. The dyna- mite was placed by an enemy of Kend- rick
 Justice Brewer to Lecture.
 Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, will be in Birmingham this week to deliver lecture at the Birmingham High School auditorium. Committees have been named by the city, the Board of Trade. Commercial Club, and other organizations to en- certain the Justice. Efforts are being made to have the distinguished visitor remain over a day after the lecture, in which event he will be shown the in- dustrial region around Birmingham.
 Bankruptcy Hearing.
 hearing in the case of the Lookout Mountain Iron Company will be held before Judge Alex Burch as special master Friday morning The hearing Is set for the purpose of fixing the fees, and deciding whether the fees shall be charged against the bonded indebted | ness or the common indebtedness of the company. A further question of whether the bonds shal be allowed to | apply on the purchase price of the | bankrupt properties will be held also | by Judge Birch.
 Negro Goes Back for Trial.
 After remaining in jail here several weeks for safe keeping against a pos- sible lynching. Edward Taylor. negro, was today taken back to Gadsden, Et- oWah County, to stand a preliminary trial on the charge of murder. The of- hcer who came for the man this morn ing said he did not anticipate any trouble now that feeling had quieted down.
 To Resist Bond Effort.
 The State will resist the attempt of Richard Wray, who has been in the , County jail nearly a year, charged with the murder of George Freeman fin a house on South Twentieth Street ac- cording to a statement made today by H. P. Heflin, the Solicitor, to secure ball
 q not only intend to resist the mo- ton when 1t comes up for a hearing Wednesday," said Solicitor Hefiin. but I think I can show the court the in- justice it would be doing the State to allow Wray to give bond. I would re- sist a similar motion in behalf of any prisoner in the Jefferson County jail It is not a question of person with me, but my duty to the State"
 As will be recalled the trial of Wray was set for November 12. On the ap- pointed day 1t developed that Marie Martin, one of the chief witnesses tor the State. was not present. A telegram to come from her said she was i'll in Atlanta. Solicitor Hehin de- clared at the time that he believed the woman had been run out of Alabama" and he would not permit the trial to proceed. Attorneys for Wray asked for 8 continuance or. trial, the former be- ing granted.
 Nothing more had been done in the case until Friday, when a motion for bail was placed upon the docket in the first division of the criminal court and