The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-08
Applicants For Licenses
 Arrested. BELIEVED THAT THEFT OF QUESTIONS WAS STATEWIDE Ten Negroes Yanked from Seats
 and Jailed. They Were Searched After Arrest and Answers Said to Have Been Bought Were Found on
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With three deputies of the sheriff at his side, Superintendent of Education G. W. Covington. of Montgomery coun- ty, called ten negro men and women, one by one, from the Hall of the House of Representatives yesterday at 11:3O o'clock and ordered them placed under arrest for traficking in examination questions and answers to obtain H. censes to teach in Alabama.
 The arrests were made at the direc- tion of Hon. Harry c. Gunnells, State Superintendent of Education. It Is be- Iieved that 1t is but the opening chap ter in a history of fraud that has honey -combed the examination work in many of the counties of the State. The Department of Education. more particularly the State Board of Teach CTS Examiners, will spare no energy in running down the conspirators of this business.
 The negroes after arrest were search ed and on many of them were found copies of answers to the questions pre- pared by the Board of Examiners. It is said that the answers were put In . way which was clearly beyond the ability of the negroes. They were hur- ried to the county jail and there im- prisoned- by Deputies Wilson, McRea and Smith.
 Their names are as follows: W. R. McChord, P. A. Ulfmer. Thomas Me- Milan. R. B. Sherman. J. A. McPher- son. Ella McCraw, Arian Hudson. Elm ma J. Devoe. Nick Solomon, and Henry Shingle.
 Some of this party came to Montgom- cry from Selma, Lowndes. and other coua .es to take the examinations. The belief is advanced that bv going to a remote place to take the examine ton they hoped to more easily avert suspicion.
 Pa. au. picion mad been aroused long before they departed for Montgomery. By ingenious devices. the Department of Education got ear of a leakage somewhere in the transmission of the questions to the county superinten- dents of education. Although the matter was sent under seal of the State of Alabama, carefully packed. although the utmost precaution was observed by the printers in sending the matter to Montgomery for distribution, some where the questions were intercepted.
 The Knowledge of the interception was all, however. that the Department could secure. What was wanted next and most was just the point along the line the leak could be located. The publishers were notified and cautioned They firmly denied such carelessness and offered a munificient sum to any one who would prove that their house was in fault.
 The Department then worked their first. ruse. The Examining Board al- lowed all the questions to be sent out to every county superintendent of edu- cation as if nothing had happened. Then they set rapidly to work to make new questions. These they sent to a printing house in another city than that of the printers of the first ques- tions, with hurry-up orders attached. Tn ample time the new questions came and they were despatched under seal to the county officers
 Then the agent of the Department the pigeon -stool, who had procured the first questions at a price of several dol- lars set out again on his secret mis- sion. He promised to. get the ques- tions. Sure enough. fin due time the Department had in hand a copy of the second list of questions long before any county superintendent had a right to open them for the examination.
 Rolled again, the Department prepar- ed some emergency questions on main