The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-05
JAIL OFFICIALS
 ARE SUSPENDED New Men Are Now Guarding
 the PaStiIe
NEW REAL ESTATE PLAN
Professor Jones, Under Guise of Deal ing In Real Estate, Sells 1t In Half Pint Lots For
 35 Gents.

Bessemer, March 4.-(Special)-Th po- lice committee met this morning to see if plans could not be devised to prevent the escape of prisoners from the jail in the future and as a result Day Warden Hathaway. Night Warden Speeks and Street Foreman Ratiff were suspended, to await the action of the council and the following gentlemen were placed in the positions made vacant by the sus- pension: D. B. Barnett day warden; G. D. Mingea, night warden, and Frank Coins, street foreman.
 From this time on strict military dis ciplne will be observed in the warden $ office, and in fact all over the jail. The day warden will be required to check the number of prisoners that are confined when he goes on duty and the night war den will be required to do likewise.
 Whenever the street foreman brings in a gang of men he will have to have them checked up by the warden and it Will be required that they be searched thoroughly before being turned into the jail
 The pick with which the last delivery was made was brought into the Jail on Saturday at 12 clock and it is not be- lieved that this would have happened had the prisoners been subjected to a thor ough search. It was quite evident that the work of escape had been going on since Saturday afternoon, as it would have been almost impossible for the prisoners to have burned out such a large hole in the floor in a few hours
 The prisoners are taken to the jail on Saturday afternoon and they remain there until Monday morning, so it will be seen that they had long time in which to work. It Is to be regretted that the committee was forced to take such steps in this matter, but it is be- lieved that from now on the prisoners will received more attention and the possibility of an escape will be reduced to a minimum.
 Another Tiger Found.
 Detectives Patton and Parsons ar rested Prof. Ed Jones this afternoon and locked him up in the joke house and entered charge on the docket against him of violating the prohibit tion law.
 Professor Jones is quite black and ne has a good smattering of the queens Eng ish. He was at one time a teacher in the colored school in Jonesboro, but it Is believed that the prohibition wave caused him to arrive at the conclusion that there was not much to be gotten out of teaching all day long, when he could move into town and set up an office and do a land office business He came up hers and rented an office on Second avenue between Twentieth and Twenty first streets and announced to the world in general and the dusky boys in particu- lar that he was in the real es- tate business and that he was looking for them back. When it was discovered what kind of dope he was dishing out rrIx, h Il to see any of them back. He had m office fixed up in good style and red was the prevailing color scheme, with a dark background, of course. He did rot put any sign but judging from the overflow he did not need any.
 All the black members of the "gfm me" club would walk into the place and say gimme a price" on a cer tain piece of land. That land was an ardent dream of the professor. He would take them in the back room, telling them that he had a good lot, and after they had looked into the titles, he would sell them lot for S5 cents. The lots came in half pint sizes.
 He lost out this afternoon when no sold one negro too much of the old stuff This negro did not care to die in the house so he walked outside t" take his drink and he walked right into the arms of the officers.
 Professor Jones will have chance tomorrow morning to tell his troubles to the mayor.
 Edmundson For President.
 Alderman Lacy Edmundson has an- nounced that he will be a candidate for the office of president of the council un- der the new code. Mir. Edmundson has worked hard to get the code adopted, and the new code owes it's adoption to d great extent to his untiring efforts along this line. When MT. Edmundson ran for the position of alderman from the Third ward in the last election he led the entire ticket, and it is believed by his many friends that he stands gooi chance of being elected to the office that he now seeks. He Is one of the leading young merchants of the city and If elect ed to the position he will no doubt fli it with great credit to both the city and himself
 Barton Bad One.
 Detective Patton and Night Captain Ross returned to the city this morning