The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-30
q HOMICIDES Is
RECORD FOR MON TIL
Number of Arrests Falls off so
Per Cent
ONLY 424 FOR 20 DAYS
Rirmineham's Record for Killings Is
Probably the Largest Ever
Made Here in Sin
gle Month.

The month of November, 1908, which
closes today, will leave in the police
annals of Birmingham a record which
is very probably unprecedented. Ac-
count has been given of 81 fatal shoot
ing affairs which have occurred in the
immediate Birmingham district during
the last 80 days. The life of a negro
who was shot Saturday night hangs by
thread. and his death may swell the
already astounding list of violent
deaths.
The disorder in the city and the ter
ritory Immediately adjoining appears
to have been confined principally to af-
fairs which prove fatal to human lives.
and while the record which has estab-
lshed itself during November is hor-
rible and bloody enough the warden's
docket at the city jail would not in
dictate as much.
For misdemeanors and non-capital
felonies the number of arrests during
the month was comparatively light,
there being aga persons placed in the
city jail this month against $40 ar
rests during November of last year.
The number of deaths as the result
of shooting ARRAYS. however, is as
founding. There were eight white per
sons and 10 negroes killed. The most
tragic affair of the month, one of the
most horrible on record in Birming-
ham, occurred at the home of ]. w.
Harris, S11 Third avenue, north, when
Mr.. Harris, his little daughter, A. w.
womack and Police officer ]. w. Lit
IL l. cfr acrI a
day three negroes were killed within
the space of very few hours.
During the month IL arrests were
made for murder. A majority of the
persons placed in Jail, however, were
arrested on suspicion and only two or
three have been detained in connection
with murders which have been COM
mitted.
List of Homicldes.
A list of the shootings making up the
horrible record for the month just clos
ing is given below:
On Saturday, November /, w. B. Sui
Ivan, white man, was shot by James
Dove on the corner of Alley and
Twenty fourth street. Sullivan died on
the following Thursday. Dove admits
having sho Sullivan claiming that the
man he shot was trying to hold him up.
In the early part of the following
week negro named Joe Miles was
poisoned at Sloss furnace. Some one put
arsenic in cup of coffee which he
drank, and his death resulted few
hours later. Suspects have been ar
| rested.
| on Tuesday. November 3, one negro
| man shot and killed another in
house near the corner of Avenue F and
| Seventeenth street because, he said, the
negro had insulted his wife.
| On Wednesday, November L. rather
sensational shooting affair occurred in
the vicinity of Fifth avenue and Sew
| enteenth street. 1t is stated that one
negro riding a bicycle was passing an
| other, and that he jumped off his wheel,
shot the other negro six times, mounted
his wheel again and escaped. The
wounded negro died. The cause of the
shooting is unknown.
| On Friday, November s, three negroes
were killed. The first shooting occurred
at the Terminal station, when a negro
named George Washington shot and
killed his wife who was sitting in the
colored waiting room. The reason for
the Negroes shooting his wife was never
ascertained, inasmuch as when he ran
| off down the street he was shot by
Police officer Mingea and made no
statement before his death.
On the same Friday afternoon ne
gro named Jim Steele shot and killed a
negro woman named Florida Tucker in
the vicinity of Third avenue and Four
teenth street. The cause of the sh oot-
ing was never ascertained. Steele es-
capped
Lat Saturday afternoon, November :,
the tragic shooting occurred at the res
,dence of ]. w. Harris, on Third avenue.
between Eighth and Ninth streets, in
which four persons-Police officer Lit
tie. ]. W. Harris and his little daush-
ter. Lillian Ruth, and A. w. Wormack-
were killed.
During Saturday night Louis Smith. a
negro, was shot and fatally wounded by
another negro in a dance hall at Ensley-
Jealousy Is said to have prompted the
shooting Smith was shot from the out
side of the hall and his assailant es-
capped.
On Sunday night, officer Smith added
another name to the lengthy list John
Henry Adams 1t is understood. was want
ed on a warrant for burglary and for
breaking open box cars. 1t is understood
that he was pursued by an officer and
that he ran by Officer Smith In his flight
and was shot down by the policeman.
On Saturday night, November I, ne
GRO named Gabel Conwell was shot and
Instantly killed at Pratt City.
On November IL Barney Mckee, or Nc
Keyes was shot and almost instantly
killed, it is alleged, by Mrs. Callie Rich
ardson at the residence of the latter, lo1
Fifth avenue, North.
On November 90 j. A. Northcutt was
killed at Henry Ellen. 1t is alleged that
he was killed by James w. Dement,, who
was arrested on the charge.
Frank Smith, negro, was shot and
killed I'm the warehouse of Charles
Transfer company on the night of Novem-
Der %.
On November % Ned Jones. an old
veteran. was mysteriously murdered at
his home at North Johns.
On the night of November &c John
Elliott a negro, was shot and killed on
Avenue @ and Twenty-fourth street, sup
nosadlv nv a negro named Will Wal