The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-08

man writing to her and made no effort, to find out, except to turn over all of the letters as they were re- ceived to Father Costello, or St- Peters Catholic Church.
 She testified that It was unaer Father Costello's direction and dicta- tion that she wrote the reply 70. the let- tars whtcb led to the arrest of Lamar a. tbe sender. The two letters so written. she gave to Father Costello having the address upon them or L
 M. Gregory.
 Father Costello was then called to
 the witness stand and testified that
 Miss Graham had brought the letters
 received from Gregory" to him, and
 that after consultation. he had dictated
 both replies which Miss Graham
 wrote. The letters were Addressed to
 q. M Gregory, Box 32. Tuskegee, Aia-'
 He tfen Identified the letters which
 Attorney Parsons showed him as the
 ones which Miss Graham had brought
 to him. fh Fred B. Ashton. a United States Pos
 tai Inspector, was then called to the
 stand. Mir. Ashton testified that he had received complaints from Father Cos teTlo relative to the letters which Miss Graham had been receiving, and that
 he had requested that Miss Graham answer the letters. Miss Graham did
 so, and he had taken the second letter himself from Montgomery to Tuskegee and had 1t placed in box 32. which he found belonged to B. c. Gibson Of that place.
 Inspector Ashton further testified that Mir. Gibson onened his box and took the letter over to the Court
 House. Mir. Ashton followed and
 reached the building as Mir. Gibson
 was coming back toward the postofiice with letter in his hand. MT. Ashton
 followed and found that the letter was
 addressed to George Lamar. of Mont- gomery.
 The letter was followed back to
 Montgomery, and Inspector Ashton was pesent in Justice of the Peace B c.
 Young's office when the letter was de-
 livered to Mir. Lamar. Mir. Ashton said that he had walked about the office
 and had passed back of Mir. Lamar and
 had seen that the letter he was read ing was the one which Miss Graham had written. He testified that he did not read any of the letter back of Mir. Lamar's back, but had recognized the letter head of the laundry upon which the letter was written and also re- cognized the writing.
 l Gibson ForwrFded Letter.
 | B. c. Gibson of Tuskegee was then calleds upon stand. Mir. Gibson testi- fled that he had known Lamar for the l past fifteen years or more. and, had received letters from him during. that time. He could not, however, Identify the letters shown by the District Att l torney as being in Lamar's handwrit- ing. He testified that he had received a letter a short while ago from La-
 mar saying that if a letter should be put in his box addressed to L. M. Gregory. to forward same to him. Mir. l Gibson testified as having done this. c. R. Glass, manager of the Iaun- dry was then placed upon the stand and testified as to having received the
 mail from the postman and having given Miss Graham several of the let | ters. which were shown to him for | Identification by the District Attorney. E. W. Graham and E. w.. Jackson. police officers, were called and testified to having known Lamar for some time land being fairly familiar with his
 handwriting. Upon being shown the 1 letters by the attorney. they both de-
 clared that their judgment was that the writing was that of George Lamar. Justice of the Peace B. c. Young, by
 whom Lamar is employed as con- l stable, was then called to the stand
 and testified as to the handwriting of Lamar. The letters were then read to the
 Commissioner by the Assistant Federal District Attorney. While Commission CT Fillmore ruled that there was no ob | scene matter in the letters themselves
 he ruled that they-wer 1ewd and H. | centious.
 There was some wrangling as to the amount of the bond which was settled tby the Commissioner fixing it at $500