The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-25
WILL MOVEGALLOWS
BOARD TO, DEMoLIsH REAR OF OLD
 JAIL.
Contract0r Bynum fs Authorised to Tear Down UnsightIy Part Of Ob- soiete Prfson-Teas1ey Makes
 His HeuOrt.

Satisfed that to attempt to save any part of the rear portion of the old county jail would be a mistakethe board of revenue yesterday ordered that It be entirely demolished and that = new rear part shall be erected at an additional cost of s2.00o. Contractor Bynum was summoned be- fore the board and proved conclusive ly that there is nothing that is really worth saving in this old structure. He further said that to attempt to use any part of this rear building in the fu- fure would be menace to health. The order of the board that this rear building shall be removed set the authorities to thinking as to just what would be the proper thing to do with the old gallows which is constructed in that part of the old jail. The gallows is a steel platform in the center of which Is the death trap, a ring bolt in the beam above being used to affix the rope.
 The necessity for some immediate ar- rangement for the transfer of this gall lows Is found in the court order that Corbin Coleman and Frank Beeman, negroes. shall be put to death in the latter part of the coming month. It has ben decided therefore that the old gal- lows is tQ be removed immediately to the newly conStructed front portion of the jail wherb 1t will be set up in room immediately above the ofice. .The place in which tho gallows now stands Is perhaps one of the most re- pulstve that could be selected. It is in an exceedingly narrow passageway ] at the end of the old tier of cells and gave to the poor unfortunate who had to go to his death not a single chance to see the outside world for the last time. In the place where 1t Is to be set up all this will be changed and at least the last view of the crim- final will be on pleasant surroundings. The board was informed by Senator Charles Teasley. of the Tax Cellec- tors once. that the insolvent tax list for the year amounted to $700 as ag7inst $4oo last year. MT. Teasley was asked to furnish the board with a copy of the bill he intends having in- troduced into the next legislature to abolish the buying of script and to aI- low the county to pay it on presents ton.
 All the bids opened for the furnish ing of 25,000 yards of gravel were re- jected on the ground that they were unsatisfactory New bids will be adver- tised for.
 Disbursements for the week as re- follows:
 Regular Jurors Civil Division City Court .... ....$ 1bS.2 Special Jurors Civil Division
 Baiiif.s civil Division city '''''
 Court .... .... :. ...... .. 50. % Sherin removal prisoners fees 4.73
 Coroners. Jurors. etc., holding
 inquest .... .... s5.sS Sundries prisoners County Jail 1.50 Premium Bond Clerk of B. of It. UsU Advertising Notice Engineers onice .. ...... .. 1.42 Labor. Nails, etc, Repairs Co. Bridges .... .. T.7b Building Bridge sprague Junc-
 tion Road ... .. .. .. .... 24.o0 Wages Road Inspector .. =. .. 12.5o Lots 1Ax15 plat 77 Highland
 Parkfmprovement Co. .. .. s15. GO Pay roll labor placing concrete
 and Iron railing Big Raw
 Inc .'...' I0.I Pay roll. Shirley week ending
 June 21, 1907 ...... .. .... 155. 60 shopwork Shirley teams month
 May .... '... 2. Ss.se Shopwork Rives teams Month
 April .... ... IF .so Shopwork Jones' teams month
 April .. .... :. .. .... Is.o Sn1e~Ea1 %onth April AAn' ~ ,.so stacks M1ri Engineers ofice :. :. S.OO Wagons an dteams county
 roads . 500 witness fees Hard Labor. esses 20. %
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