The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-11
1 DEATHS BY FOUL
 MEANS IN ONE DAY
Coroner Has Busy Time h.
 tigating Grimes
NEGROES BODY IN SEWER
Child Found Floating In Canal Ditch. Negro Killed In First Alley. Another Shot On
 Avenue E,

Four deaths by foul means and one negro seriously shot with a shotgun. was yesterdays record of crime in the immediate vicinity of Birmingham. The death of two infant children, one by starvation and tho other. presumably, by being thrown into water and drowned, was reported to the coroner; and one negro stabbed to death. and another found in a state of decomposition. com- plete the list of dead.
 A collector who was making his round at Boyles discovered q dead white baby in the house of Chancey Lewis, a negro woman. yesterday morning and reported the matter to the coroner. According to information received the child was left with the negro woman on Tuesday night by the mother. The child appears to be about one month old
 Coroner Paris and Deputy Sheriff c. T. Hilton were at work on the case yesterday afternoon. and the conclusion was that the child died of starvation rather than of a pulmonary trouble as previously supposed. w H. Sudduth was arrested on a warrant from the coroner, ana he and the negro woman, Chancey Lewis, were locked up In the county jail last night on charges of murder. Suddutf Is supposed to be the father of the dead child.
 Coroner Paris also received mes- sage last night tat q baby had been found floating dowr the canal ditch at South Park station on the Ensley car line. The information received by the coroner was meagre. and he was not
 informed whether the child was white or black. He will make an investigation of the matter this morning.
 The body of a negro man, who was identified by some as Ed Fountain, and who is supposed to have been murdered last Saturday. and the body thrown into the water, was found floating down q sewer ditch near the corner of Eighth avenue and Thirteenth street.
 The body was in 0 bad state of decom- position, showing that 1t had been in the water for several days, and possibly for a week or more. When the coroner was notified of the matter he went to | the scene immediately, and upon an ex- | animation 1t was shown that there were several bruises upon the head of the negro. The coroners conclusion was that the man had been murdered and his body thrown Into water somewhere, and
 that 4 had fioated down the sewer fer l some distance.
 The heavy rain of Tuesday evening churned the water in the big sewer ditch l so that 1t caused the body to come to the surface. A negro boy passing along l happen ed to see the decomposed body floating along, and the authorities were notified. On account of the bad state of | presery alton, tho Lyuy was buried yes l terday afternoon.
 Coroner Paris is also on the look out for regro man named Tom Matthews, | who he believes stabbed an unknown negro to death yesterday morning about i 10 o'clock in First alley between Twen- 1 ty-third and Twenty y-fourth streets When 1 the injured negro was picked up his assailant had fled and had left no trace | The wounded man was not dead when picked up but had q number of bad cuts about him, which caused his death after he was taken to Hillman hospital. On account of previous difficulties be- tween tne two Hfei, ltlS cOTOneT suspects Matthews of the murder and will effect his arrest If possible.
 Last night about o'clock. a negro named Frank Coleman was shot in the leg .ce, shotgun being the weapon used, by, it Is believed, another negro, named Sam Barran. It seems that the two negroes had had some difficulty earlier in the night and for this reason Barran is thought to have shot Coleman. The shooting occurred on the corner of Avenue E and Twenty-fourth street. and it is said that Barran stood behind a box car standing on tho Belt railroad, , and there awaited his victim. It is not believed that Coleman is fatally shot. although two loads of shot took effect in his right leg.