The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-03

pay these claims. The law expressly the cause of death Is not pub!iciy known. that the coroner shall hold m onIy Gy'a Witnesses V were s~s e the two W Women whose statements of the deed I could not accept without some corroboration In the & WSofrord oa. case the .,ssx nan wns sn. stances. Nothing would have been r'ore natural in either case had murder becn say that 1t was suicide. It was clear, ly my duty to investigate, The total me to hold an inquest and to empanel a jury. For holding the inquest I would have received $2. while the Ju- ing that 1t was not necessary to hold an inquest after I had investigated .hs circumstances I did not summon a have made it ;25 That doesn't look like graft to me and I expect to insist on holding Investigations where. in in do so, regardless of what the Board of Revenue thinks cn the subject"
 Damage Suits Filed.
 Claiming that he was the victim of the grade crossing. fl. E. Abercrombie Friday filed suit in the Circuit Court against the Birmingham Railway and way Company for damages in each instanc eof $2.00o. The suits are filed separately. The bills set up that Alb. ercrombie was 2 passenger on street riously injured as the result of a col lision between the car on which he was riding and a freight car operated by the Southern Railway.
 Veteran. to (o Q, Picnic.
 All the surviving veterans of Com: pany c. 18th Alabama Regiment. VII! hold Q picnic on the 10th of the month large basket dinner prepared by the ladies and all veterans of the civil war are invited to Attend the reunion. not. The membership of the company now numbers about twenty Of the original number of 120.
 The annual outing of the surviving held on the i2th of August. This season the 10th was chosen at the re- quest of ladies who offered to prepare a basket dinner.
 Conditions Reported Good.
 Col. o. P. Ford. one of the State organizers of the Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union. srrived in County. where on Thursday he attend ed the meeting of the County Execu.. tive Committee of the Union. Colonel Ford reports crop conditions in the been featuring. considerably improved. He stated that the interest In the union was on the increase and that the Safl0Sk f0r as
 Colonel Ford will leave for Anntston Friday evening.
 Kidnapping Case.
 Ina charged with kidnapping Viola Cole man. a young girl. aged 15 years. came to an end in the Police Court after session. The decision of Judge Feagin depends on the legal definition of child" The defense will prepare le- gal definitions taken from words and phrases and submit same to Judge Fes- gin. The decision In the case will be handed down at 10 o'clock Saturday
 Several witnesses in the case were examined Friday morning, the feature of which was the Absence of Jessie Coleman, sister of the kidnapped child. who was interested in the mat ter by witnesses who testified yestsr- firmly denied that they knew anything of the departure of the young lady or her present whereabouts.
 Mrs. Hoak in testifying yesterday said that Jessie Coleman had taken her sister Viola away from Mrs. Dial. an other sister. on account of alleged mistreatment.
 Witnesses examined this morning composed the neighborhood around the Dial home. The ladies testified that Viola According to her own state- ments. had been mistreated and wanted to leave Mrs. Dial.
 Mrs. Daal. her husband .and Viola testified that the girl was not mis- treated.
 The evidence is very contradictory in many instances.
 It was shown. as stated yesterday. that the girl was taken from her home by her sister Jessie and was sent to Mrs. Joness on Fifth Avenue: Mrs: Hoax and Mrs. Jims took the child from there to Smiths camp, where she spent the night. She was then taken to Avondale and located by De- tective Murphy.
 It is supposed by the defense that the girl being Is years of age left of her own yolition. To determine the deh- nttion of child caused the court to ad- tourn without verdict being rend- cred.