The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-31
ATTORNEY CAREER
 HAS WORK AHEAD Outlaw" Act Case Comes Up
 April 5 CHIEF CLERK IS HEEL D George G. Lardner of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Is Arrested for Alleged Embezzement of s29s6
 From the Road.
CHIEF CLERK IS HEEL D

torney General A. M. Garber has T large docket for his consideration the coming 10 days On April 5 he must answer to the application of the Western Union Tel egraph company that an injunction be is- sued prohibiting the state from enforcing the outlaw" act, in which it is held that a foreign corporation moving a case From a state to a federal court loses it's license. This will be heard by Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States court. before whom 1t was brought.
 Later in the month comes up the case of the former tax collector of Baldwin county, suit on bond; the failure of the Louisville and Nashville road to build a depot at Corduroy, as ordered by the rail- road commission, and the cotton compress rate cases In order to keep up with this run Colonel Garber has been forced to decline a number of attractive invita- tions for the first part of the spring.
 Chief Clerk Held.
 George l. Lardner chief clerk in the local freight office of the seaboard Air Line, who has been arrested and sent to Jail for the alleged embezzement of $29S6 in railroad funds, is 49 years of age, and has wife and four children The dis crepancy was discovered by the travelling auditor, J. M. Majors, who thinks that he has been using the roads money for sev- eral years. However, the indicated short age, if such there is, runs back no fur ther than 1907. It Is believed that Lard ner has had too much family to support, and that ha ua no abI fo only s100 a month to go on. The arrest is by order of the bond company.
 CazaIas Impeachment.
 The impeachment proceedings against Sheriff Cazalas of Mobile will not be filed for several days, it is said. Attor- ney General Garber thinks that he will have a lot to do before he can get the matter to the supreme court In the meantime the friends of the Gulf City officer are getting busy to have the peti- ton recently filed with the governor re- called.
 Aston in Jefferson.
 Because of the disqualification of Judge A. A. Coleman of the circuit court, Judge A. H. Aston has been sent to take up the present term. Judge Coleman is not able to take up some of the matters at is- sue.
 Kind Hearted Judge.
 It has been discovered that after sen tencing Eugene Shell to the peniten- tiary last Saturday Judge Armestead Brown went to the youth, who is only 20, and gave him a suit of clothes. He also reduced his sentence from five to four years and told the boy that he would help him if. he would try to do the right thing in life hereafter.
 Negro's Close Call.
 Henry Gavon, negro, found yes- terday that he had a bullet hole in his hat. He recalled that a few nights ago he was In a house where Jeffer- son Mason was shot and killed. He grew cold to hihk that the fatal bull let passed thus close to his head He brought the hat to the police that it might be aid in capturing the shooter who is yet at large.
 Prisoners Released.
 The following prisoners have been paroled into the hands of the chair man of the Board of Revenue of Jeff ferson county to be sent to the poor farm: Ida Albright and Hattie Long, white; Ella Kimbrell and Mary Mack, negroes and William Frederick white, The women are charged with vagrancy and the man with assault and battery. All in are desperate health.
 Live Stock Board.
 A meeting of the live stock sanitary board of the state has been called for April at the state capitol. This board is made up of Commissioner of Agri- culture J. A. Wilkinson, Dr. c. A. Cary state veterinarian, and Prof. D. T. Gray of Auburn. The work of the board has attracted much attention during the past few years and it is planned to make the meetings this year of par ticular interest.
 Supreme Court Meets.
 The supreme court is in informal ses-. sion this week. at work on rehearings. All are present save Justice Denson who Is kept at Lafayette with car mally on April 5. The docket of re- hearings is quite heavy.
 Meeting of Directors.
 Dr. ". H. Sanders state health of ficer is making preparations for the State Medical association meeting in Birmingham April 20. He has just returned from tour of the state talk ing the importance of reporting all statistics and finds that the work has been fruitful. He says that the meet ing in Birmingham is going to be of great value to the profession. as there are so many things to be reported as result of the work done during the