The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-26
MALICIOUS FORGERY
TELECRAMs so DENOUNCED BY
 TALLADEGA NEWSPAPER.
Declares Erroneous Information Was sent The Advertiser to Inture Cause of Prohibftion-Whis-
 key Did Not Fail.

Talladega. Sept 25.-tspeciai. 1.-The following apears in today's Our Moun- tain Home:
 A malicious forgery was practiced upon Our Mountain Home Monday night by parties in Talladega, in which J. c. Savery, saloon keeper, and the firm of Mays & oglesby, proprietors of the Eclipse Saloon, are done an in- justice. Two telegrams to which the name of Our Mountain Home was pur- ported to be signed, were sent to The Montgomery Advertiser and The Bir- mingham News as follows:
 Sept. 2S, 1907. Montgomery Advertiser. Montgomery.
 Ala.
 Two large whiskey failures in Tal- ladega today. J. c. Savery and Mays and Oglesby. Assets small, liabilities large. Bankruptcy court.
 N Our Mountain Home.
 Sept 23, 1907. Birmingham News. Birmingham. Ala Two more saloons gone into bank ruptey today, J. c. Savery assets small, liabilities large-Mays and 0glesby as- sets two thousand dollars, liabilities ten thousand dollars Who Raw for
 Our Mountain Home. Immediately upon seeing the tele- gram printed in yesterdays Advertiser, The Home began -an investigation, the first thing to ascertain the truth of 1t. Both saloons were found doing business and their proprietors greatly surprised at the telegram. The Western Union Telegraph office was visited and there 1t was ascertained that Monday evening two telegrams in a plain envelope with out any address were brought to the office by negro man, who stated that they were sent there to be forwarded at TN..ro x..r. says she hesitated about opening the envelope because there was no address upon it, but the negro insisted that he had brought 1t to the right place. Upon finding Our Mountain Home signed to the telegrams Mrs. DuBose said she had no hesitancy in sending them at once as press specials.
 When asked for description of the negro. Mrs. Dusose said he was a short, chunky man, with an awful rough face. looked mean and slouchy, and had the appearance of about middle age She said, the light was dim and she was very busy and did not know or not.
 Of course Our Mountain Home'' be- ing signed to the telegrams Mrs. Du- bose allowed the Homes representa- tive to see them an1 they were both written on regular blanks in the same handwriting. a fairly good handwrit- ing, but one which indicated that the writer was ignorant of grammatical construction and punctuation, or wrote purposeIy as he did. although the writ ing did not look as if disguised.
 Our Mountain Home will pay a re- ward of fifteen dollars for evidence to convict the party who forged It's signature to the above telegrams.
 
 As will be recalled negro was used some weeks ago to steal the petition calling for an election on prohibition in this County, and now a negro is used to carry forged telegrams to bring into bad repute the support Our Mountain Home is giving prohibition in this County.
 F. c. ogIesby of the firm of Mays and Oglesby. says he Is going to bring suit against The Advertiser. The News and the Western Union Telegraph Com pany.
 This is the last week of the prohibit ton contest in Talladega County and the prohfbitionists were looking for just such methods as here practiced. But for the fact The Advertisers cor- respondent is connected with Our Mountain Home, the forgery might have been undetected. but the correspondent knowing he did not send the special, at once made an investigation upon the receipt of yesterdays Advertiser, and unearthed the malicious forgery. But for the discovery the anti prohibition ists would now be holding up tho sa- looms as martyrs at the hands of Our Mountain Home and the prohibitionists. and for this very reason the fake tele- grams were sent out. There is no clue as to who the forger is, btu he Is cer- tainly unfrlendly to the cause of pro- hibition and "Our Mountain Home"
 Today's issue of The Home being the last one before the election it is bel lieyed that it was intended to use the telegrams against The Home aftr was too lat for contradiction.
 T R WilliamS