The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-06
JAIL DELIVERY IS
NIPPED IN THE BUD
Several Bars Had Been Cut in
Morgan County Jail
IMPLEMENTS ARE FOUND
The Funeral of Annie Miller, a Negro
Woman, One of the Most Largely
Attended Ever Held In
North Alabama.
IMPLEMENTS ARE FOUND

Decatur, February 5.--(special An at
tempt at wholesale Jail delivery in the
county jail was nipped in the bud here
last night by the timely arrival of Dep
uty Sheriff Gardner on the scene. Five
bars had been cut in the jail, and within
few hours more seven negro prisoners
would have gained their liberty
For the past week Sheriff Tom Shipp
and his deputies have suspected that an
attempt at a delivery was being planned.
and for this reason they kept a sharp
lookout on the jail and prisoners. Late
yesterday evening The grating of a saw
was heard in the jail and when the
jailer entered he found that the five bars
had been most sklfuly sawed. The
prisoners would not tell where the saw
was. They were removed to another sec
tion of the Jail and a close watch was
kept on them all night.
This morning a search of the Jail was
made and resulted in the finding of a saw
made of a shoe spring., a coal chisel, a
quantity of large spikes large pocket
knife and two large pieces of wood some
two feet long which they had been using
to prise with. The prisoners would not
say where they got all this stuff. All
they would say was that it had been in
the jail for a long time.
There were seven negro prisoners in
the Jail and had the delivery been made
all of these would have escaped Cliff
Way a white man accused of the murder
of Policeman j. Lem Jones' is also con-
fined in this Jail Two of the negro pris-
oners are in from other places for safe
keeping These two are accused of MUIR
der and it was these two who were max
ing the attempt at a delivery.
These negroes are VIII Smith, charged
with the murder of a white man at Shelf
field and George Bown, charged with
numbering a negro in Tuscumba. Bown
has been tried and found guilty. He was
sentenced for life, but his case is now
in the supreme court. Smith has not
yet had a trial, Both of these negroes
objected to their names being published
in the papers, saying it would hurt their
cases.
Deputy Catches Man.
After watching house all night in the
southern part of the county Deputy
Sheriff d. p Ryan arrested a man this
morning wanted at Cullman, Ala, for
robbery and Jail breaking.
The man wanted was In the house with
another man, and the deputy heard them
planning to get away. The friend of the
man NHIlleu lell uuIlnB TIE night anu
told the one wanted he would take a
freight train and would set the brakes
so the train would slow up at a certain
point down the road, and then he could
get on and they would leave together.
The sharp-eared deputy heard this plan
and nipped his man before it was time
for him to escape and landed him safely
behind the bars.
There was a reward of $50 for the man
wanted, but Deputy Ryan did not claim
the reward.
TisdaIe In Decatur.
Nat Y. Tisdale, one of the oldest col
ored citizens of Decatur who has been
employed in the government printing Of
fee in Washington for several years. is
in the city He came to attend the
funeral of his married daughter Annie
NJ Miller, who died and was buried here.
Nat Tisdale was at one time a member
of the city council of Decatur and was
i'm business here for himself for a num-
Der of years. He stands we'll with both
white and colored people who know him.
The funeral of his daughter was one of
the largest attended funerals that has
been witnessed here for many years. The
funeral was attended by many white peo-
pie. as well as coored people. The inter-
ment took place at Spring Hill burying
grounds, one of the oldest graveyards in
North Alabama.