The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-15

through the sewers or Birmingham tOday. According to the plan already definitely arranged, the liquor will be poured into a manhole in Third alley. just in front of the city jail.
 Chief Bodeker had all the wet goods in the storeroom at police headquarters checked up yesterday afternoon and, &C., cording to arrangements Judge Feagin will condemn the whole supply some time today and it will be emptied into a place where it will be beyond redemption.
 Chief Bodeker states that in order to maintain the solemnty of the occasion
 
 tell the court the circumstances attending
 your being at the corner of the drug store on Nineteenth street and Third ave- nue. Al had an engagement with MT. Thompson Friday night and called him up at 5:45 and told him l was not going to my sisters, and he called me again
 and said he wanted to see me at 6 o'clock,
 and l told him l was going to catch the ,6 clock car, and he insisted. and l tod him if he came before the o'clock car
 l would wait for him. met two young
 ladies and we went and had something to drink with Mir Robertson, and then I
 met MT. Thompson Q.--Did MT. Thompson come down there
 then? A.-Yes sir. Q.-Do you know whether or not that
 was the occasion Robertson claimed that Thompson had butted in on him? A.-Ges sir, that was the only time he ever did. Q.-was that the very day of the kill ing? A.-Yes sir. Q.-Did you say anything to Thompson that evening about what Robertson had
 said about him? A.-No sir just told him
 he said he would kill him If he ever butted into me while he was with me. Q.-You told him about 1t again that evening? A,-Yes sir. Cross-examination by MT. Hefiin: Q.-You were walking with Robertson
 at the time, were you not, that Thomp-
 son came up? A.-No sir, was standing by myself.
 Q.-But you had been in and had a 1 drink with Robertson, had you not? A.
 No more than with the two young ladies. Q.-You and the other young ladies had been? A,-Yes sir.
 Q.-He paid for the drinks, didn't he ? | A.-Yes sir.
 Q.-Didnt Thompson come up while you
 were taking the drinks? Ale came in
 the drug store. Q.-Which drug store was it' A-Gunn l & Gambill's
 Q.-Was that the day on which Robert son was killed? A-That was the even-
 ing
 Q.-what time was 1t? A.-Six clock or l five after.
 Q.-Didnt Thompson come up and pull you away from Robertson7 A.-No sir. O.-Didnt he take hold of you by the arm? No sir, not then. arm? A-No sir, not then. l to go with MT. Robertson, after he had
 walked to the front door. Q.-Then he pulled you away? A. l Caught hold of my arm. Q.-What did you say to him? A.-Went on and told him what MT Robertson had
 said.
 o.-Then was the time you told him?
 A-Yes sir.
 Q-And he said then he would prepare
 himself for him, didn't he? A.-Yes sir. Q.-Did you ever hear Thompson make any threats against Robertson? A.-Mr. Thompson said If Robertson ever started anything with him he would try to get out on top; that Robertson was the best man and he could not fight him a fist fight.
 Q.-Didn't he tell you he was going to kill Robertson? A.-No sir. Q.-You say you had stopped Robertson
 from coming to see you? A.-Yes sir.
 Q.-Had you not also stopped Thomp- son from coming to see you? A.-No sir, I intended to stop him.
 Q.-Didn't you tell him he could not
 come to see you? Defendant objects to the question and court overrules the ob- lection. No answer; question changed by
 Mir. Heflin.
 Q-Don't you know that there was i'll
 feeling between both of them on each
 side toward each other? A.-Yes sir. O-Did you tell him that he could not
 come to see you, Thompson? A.-Not for a while.
 o-How? A.-Yes sir, for a while. Q.-D1u you tell iiilh "Hy ~ ''S' ~
 Yes sir gave him my reason, but l didn't give him that reason. O-Didn't Thompson threaten to Kill
 won at one time? As-No, I don't know that he did.
 o-Didn't he draw his pistol on you? A--No sir.
 The defendant objects to the question
 and court sustains objection. O.-(By the court)-Had Mir Robertson been to see you week or two weeks before the killing? A.-Been to see me 1 two weeks before. Q.-Been out with you uptown any
 where week or so before the kiii1ns | A.-No sir, not a week before the Kiiiins' Q.-How long had you stopped him-
 ahout how long? Al stopped him Thurs-
 day two weeks before the killing.
 Dr.. Copeland First Witness.
 Dr. M A. Copeland was the first Wit
 ness placed upon the stand at the morn-
 ing session. He testified to having been
 teephoned to by Thompson some time
 after 10 o'clock of the night of the kill
 Ing. Thompson asking him to come to
 his boarding house. Dr. Copeland stated
 that he asked him to come to his office
 if he was able to walk as he could treat l him better there. Thompson said he
 would come but never reached Dr. Cope
 lands office, it being said that he was |