The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19

l side of the city and work will be com menced immediately after the letting or contracts. The money for this purpose will come out of the s40O,O00 bond issue recently made by the city.
 The council meeting promises to be short and devoid of special feature. It promises to be a routine meeting.
 to Newcastle to see Dickert. In what capacity did you go?"
 Witness: "As an Independent witness to be present at the interview"
 MT. Grubb Did you introduce your self or MT. Conner to Dickert?''
 Witness: "I did not"
 MT. Grubb: You never told Dlckert your own name or MT. Corners name un- til you had gotten out Of him all you 1 wanted?"
 Witness: "When Dickert said he would not know MT. Conner, I turned, and point ing with my hand, said, This is MT l Conner "
 MT. Grubb: When did you write these notes of the conversation?'
 Witness: "very shortly afterward."
 MT. Grubb: "Where?"
 Witness: "on our way back to the 1 buggy we sat down under the shade of |
 MT Grubb Did MT. Conner assist your
 memory"
 Witness: T wrote 1t and MT Conner
 read it."
 Mr Grubb "Did Dickert say the af- fdavit was 'stuffed? Did he use the word 1 stuffed?
 Witness: "IIe used the word stuffed :" l Mir Grubb: Did Dickert use the word
 lots in which you say that he said
 there were lots of things he never
 said?' 1 Witness: "Yes, he used the word lots -
 MT Grubb: ''Tel1 the jury, MT. Willxin-
 son. whether or not you were ever in the flour and milling business on your | own account in the city of BirminghamY' l Witness: "I was"
 Mir Grubb: Was not MT. Conner in
 the same line of business at that time,
 and was he not a competitor of yours?' Witness: 'Ie was"
 MT. Grubb: "Tll ask you, MT. Will
 kinson, to tell the jury whether or not,
 at the time when you and MT. Conner
 were both in the flour and milling busi-
 ness in the city of Birmingham, and were
 competitors in that business. you wrote a | letter to Mir deFuniak of the Louisville
 and Nashville railroad stating to him that 1 Mir Conner was shipping flour from Nash
 vile over his road in Jim Dandy meal
 sacks and that you could not successfully | compete with himT
 Plaintiff's counsel objected to question and objection is sustained by the court.
 Governor Conner Called.
 The next witness was Governor Conner, who was examined in chief by Captain White.
 Captain White: Governor, where were you born?"
 Witness: "Springhill, Barbour county" Captain White: How long did you live there?"
 Witness: Until I was 35 years of age"
 I Captain White: 'rwhat was your fath- CTS name?"
 Witness: "John Fletcher Conner"
 Captain White: "What was your moth- l CTS name"
 Witness: My mothers maiden name was Catherine Drury." l Captain White: "Did you have any TO- | lations in South Carolina?' Witness: None that know of.' Captain White: Have you any broth l ers?"
 Witness: ''Yes; they are in Savannah" 1 Captain White: ''Is either of them ' named Andy?" Witness: "No." Captain White: "Do you know this man l Dickert who testified in this case last l Saturday.? | Witness: 'T have seen him, suppose, as | passed to and from the mill but l don't know him otherwise. I saw him at New castle in June. 1904, at the time l went there with MT. Wilkinson Captain White: When you saw Dickert at Newcastle, did he tell you he was your cousin?'' Witness: .TIe did not. In fact. the man did not know me at all. Captain White: Did you hear the con- versation between MT. Wilkinson and Dckert at Newcastle?" Witness: "I heard it, and it was sub stantially as MT wilkinson has stated" Captain White: You can take the wit ness"
 MT Grubb: Governor, how did you stand during the conversation between Mir Wilkinson and DickertT' Witness: "we all three stood close to- gether. We walked up the track and stopped when we came to Dickert. Mir Wilkinson carried on the conversation"
 Mr. Grubb: ''Did you introduce your selves?" Witness: "We did not" Mir Grubb 'Is 1t good manners to walk up to man and begin to ask him ques- tions without introducing yourself?" Plaintiff's counsel objects and court sustains objection. Mir Grubb Governor. you told Captain White that your credit was not as good as it was before the publication of this af- fdavit. Now as a matter of fact, is not your credit greater with the First Ma tional bank than 1t ever wasp Witness: "Yes: but I would like to ex- plain how that is if I may do so. MT Grubb: Certainly Witness: well. have been in the habit of dealing with banks in New York as we'll as with the First National here. Sometimes we could get money cheaper in New York than at home, and then we borrowed on three and six months paper and the New York banks were glad to ac- commodate us. But now we cannot get money in New York, and we have to get it in Birmingham and that's why our I credit is larger than formerly. We are practically cut out in New York" MT. Grubb: "Did not this tightness on the part of the New York banks occur be- tween the years 1906 and 1907?'' Witness: Ut did.' MT. Grubb: "Was not that the period of your administration as governor during