The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-29
GREENE AND GAYNOR DENIED REFERRING
 - Must Begin Sentence of Four
 Years Each MUST ALSO PAY BIG FINE It Is Said To Be Very Likely That Legislature Will Pass State Pro- hibition Law at the
 Special Session.
MUST ALSO PAY BIG FINE


 Montgomery, October 2S.-(Speciai) -B. D. Greene and John F. Gaynor whose notoriety in connection with government frauds has become national, were today denied a rehearing by the United States circuit court of appeals in session in Montgomery and unless the defendants secure writ of crtiorari from the United States supreme court they are doomed to spend four years in the pen. besides each being compelled to pay fine ap- proximating S2,0000o0. The. prosecution of Greene and Gaynor dates back l5 yeals. They were convicted Of being implicated in frauds in connection with harbor ln.- provements at Savannah, Ga. On trial the defendants were convicted and sen- tenced to four years in the penitentiary, besides being fined nearly S2,C00o1o.
 For some time the prisoners have been in Jail while ther cases have becu in the courts. They are now eonnned a, Macon, Ga.
 When the case reached the court ot appeals it was decided against the defoI- dants, thus affirming the judgment of tne lower courts.
 Thereafter counsel for Greene ana Gay- nor applied to the court of appeals for rehearing, and 1t was upon this petition that the court today handed down d de- cision denying the application. The ap. plication was before Judges Pardee, Me Cormlck and Sheltry.
 he l,ria If these words:
 NO one of the judges who eonculrea in the case desiring a rehearing, the ap- plication, therefore, is denied
 State Prohibition.
 It is thought here that however the elections for prohibition in the counties go the legislature at it's special St ssicl to be held next month will take up and pass a bill to bring about state prohibi- tion. Speaker A. Ii. Carmichael has made known his intention to present such bill and 1t is well known that he will have plenty of help to follow It up. Mel who keep tab on what Is going on say that Governor Conner will give comfort to such a measure, though he did not include it in the things to be taken up at the extra meeting.
 Men who hope for industrial peace in the country take heart to believe that the meeting of governors fin Atlanta this week, at which Conner of Alabama, smith of Georgia and Glenn of North Carolina will attend, will bring out some plan by which the differences can be adjusted. IT there can be q general agreement reached it is thought future legislation can be had with view of gettings things back to good business bases in a short time. It is taken to mean that the conference Is in Ia nat Df anf faF. mi formity of legislation in much of the southern territory.
 The movement at Selma to secure the erection of monuments to the late Sen ators Morgan and Pettus has met with approval at the capital. Men who have long taken pride in the work of the two old warriors are going to give Selma a helping hand to erect there bronzes will not only be q cerdit to the state but a fitting expression of the love in they are held by all the people of the state. The question will form a part of the business of the reunion of Confeder- ate veterans and sons to be held here in November
 Sensational Trial. What promises to be the most sensa- tional trial in the history of the section is opening here today. Dr. Frank Caffey, a negro physician Is being charged, un-
 
 murder. as the result of one case, the death of a babe being the allegation brought forth. Peculiar interest attaches because of the alleged patients being white women. we'll as the fact that Caffey, though d negro, is quite promi- nent
 Out of this case has grown the discom- fture of two well known young men. George and Jesse Shreve, and possibly q trial to disbar the former, who is a lawyer. from practice. Both are now under indictment on a charge of obstruct- ing justice Two of the witnesses against Caffey were taken out of the state and it is charged that they were responsible for 1t in a sense A. J. Stokes one of the best known negro preachers in the south, has also been indicted for an of- fense like that charged to the Shreves.
 jury was secured without much trouble and the trial begun at once. Mrs. Johnson, one of the witnesses, swore that Caffey performed operation and that she was told afterwards that the child died, though she never saw 1t.
 New Corporations.
 The following new corporations have been reported to Secretary of State Frank N. Julian:
 Mobile Plumbing and Supply Co., Mo- bile, capital $I0oo0; incorporators, w. l.. Woodruff, Thomas F. Clark and others.
 Majestic Shoe company Birmingham, capital. s5o00; incc-porators, A. C. Thayer, James Adams and d score of others.
 American Real Estate and Development company. Montgomery, capital s100,000; incorporators. J. H. and c. H. Shreve, T. l.. Peach. W. J. Conniff, H. c. Shreve, N E. Russell and Hugh Stuart
 Farmers Union Warehouse company, Jemison. capital s40o0; incorporators, c. H. Robinson and many others. Southern Mission Furniture company, Birmingham, capital 5000; incorporators. H. M. Mccarthy and others.