The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-04-01
STRICKEN
WITH PARALYSIS
Is the Father of Judge John C.
EySter
TURNER BROTHERS. TRIAL
L. B. Friend May Lose Eyesight AS
Result of Premature Blast-Work
On Arson West Memorial
Home-other News.

Decatur, March ESPECIALLY DIR. w. S.
Eyster is lying at his home Oh jackson
street, New Decatur, in a critical condi-
ton as the result of a stroke of paralysis.
His entire right side is affected and he
is unable to raise his right arm. The
power of speech has almost left him. but
he is conscious and converses mostly by
signs.
DR.. Eyster is one of the best known
men in North Alabama He is the father
of Judge John c. Eyster of New Decatur,
one of the members of the late state
constitutional convention and one of the
best known lawyers in Alabama. Many
years of DR.. oysters life were spent at
Moulton, in Lawrence county, where he
was engaged in business. For the past
Il or 10 years Dr. Eyster and his wife
have resided in New Decatur.
He is about so years of age and his
relatives and friends throughout this sec
tion of the state are very much alarmed
at his condition.
The Turner Trial.
The preliminary trial of Tom and Bas-
com Turner, charged with murder, came
up before a justice of the peace at Hills
boro, Lawrence country, yesterday and
was continued until April @ District So
lictor David C. Almon of this city, stated
that the trial was continued on account
of the absence of an important wit
ness
The two Turner boys are charged with
having killed Walter Holland by stabbing
h oh ba Iy
wounding W. F. Holland, the father o.
Walter Holland at Caddo, Lawrence coun-
ty, o.. the afternoon of March 7.
May Lose Eyes.
L. B. Friend. an employee of the Louis
VILE and Nashville Railroad shops in New
Decatur may lose his eyesight as the re-
suit of an accident. He was using blast
ing powder to blow bolts out of a loco
motive boiler. One of the blasts failed
to explode and he attempted to remove
the fuse and when he did so the blast
went off and he was frightfully burned
about the face and eyes. He was taken
to Birmingham for treatment.
Arson West Home.
Work has commenced on the West Me-
mortal home in this city by Contractor
r. G. Ross. The home will cost about
$500
The home is named in honor of DIR.
Arson West and when completed will be
occupied by his widow The residence
lis being built by the North Alabama con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south.
DR.. Arson West was for many years
one of the best known and most scholar
ly ministers in the North Alabama con-
ference. He died a few years ago while
still actively engaged in the church work
at Athens. For several years he was
Decatur. He was also pastor of the Cen
trail Methodist church of New Decatur.
and at one time was presiding elder of
the Decatur district. He was for some
tire president of .the Methodist college
at Owenton His book on the history of
the Methodist church in Alabama is re-
garded by many as a masterpiece. 1t is
not only an able account of the doings
of the Methodist church in Alabama, but
it is one of the best and most accurate
histories of the state of Alabama that
has ever been written. Some years ago
DR.. West lacked only a few votes of being
elected a bishop of the Methodist church
1t is quite fitting that memorial home
bearing his name should be erected here
in Decatur where a number of the best
and most useful years of his life were
spent