The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

From the scene of the shooting How
ton went to the house of Sam Norwood
and returned the shot gun, at the same
time telling the family that he had
killed his father and that If any one
told their names would be Dennis
George w. Jones of Bessemer has had
men working on the case since the
killing and late Thursday afternoon re-
ceived a teleph one message saying that
William Howton was making his es-
cape and that he was spending the
night at Tom Stages at Piney Woods.
Two local deputies were at once dis
patched to Piney Woods but the tele-
phone message proved to be fake.
Meanwhile Mr.. Jones had been in COM
munication with Deputy D. o. Battle,
who knew that Howton was at the
house of his father with the rest of
the children dividing the property. Mr..
Jones instructed Battle to capture
Howton and Battle securing the aid
of Constable Rainey went to Ground
Hog and made the capture. Howton
made the confession to the two men
justice of the peace and the arrests
made. The prisoners were guarded all
Friday night and brought to Bessemer
through the country this morning.
From here they were taken to the
county Jail at Birmingham.
Bessemer Wins Fall.
In two of the loosest games ever
seen on the local diamond Bessemer
won from Kissel Pharmacy and Bir-
mingham Athletic club. Both teams
were outclassed by Bessemer and after
they had been thoroughly shown up
they allowed Bessemer to pile up run
after run. The fans when they left the
park were exceedingly Disguised at the
rank exhibition, saying that they had
come to see ball game not baby
match"
The score of the first game with
Kissel Pharmacy was to 0, and with
B. A. C. to 0. The B. A. C. team failed
to show up in time for the first game
and the game with Kissel's was played
first.
Kssell Badly Beaten.
The feature of the first game was tho
pitching of Skies for Bessemer. Skies
were of the scratch variety, and struck
out II men. The hitting and base-running
of Craig was also noticeable. Craig
batted 1000 and stole four bags. After
Pessemer had made two In the first, one
In the second. and two In the third,
Zwald pitching for Kssell, allowed the
Bessemer boys to bat as they would.
Seeing the conduct o, the pitcher the
entire team quit with the exception OF
Brown. The disgusting exhibition con-
tinued through nine long innings and 1t
was a tired and ill-humored crowd or
fans who hooted the Kissell team off the
Geld Score: R.H. e.
Bessemer .................2 l2 ol3 W. IL
Kissell 49,. ......... 900 900 O0O-0 4 IL
batteries: Skies and Houston; Zwald
and Brown.
B. A. C. Very Weak.
The game with the Birmingham Ath-
letic club was worse and the patience
of the fans was almost exhausted when
the game was called at the end OF nve
and a half innings. AS the game was
scheduled to be played on B. A. C.'s
grounds. the local team went first to the
bat. In their half of the sixth the local
team made seven runnings, but as the
game was called before the B. A. C.s
went to bat these scores were disallowed,
making the score to !. Nothing was
out of the ordinary III TIE sdiio oASVPt
the inability of Price to hold the local
team down. Score: R.H. e.
Bessemer .....................zz o -
b. A. G. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Voo vi
Batteries: Reddish and Houston; Price,
Moss and Beddow
AS Woodward lost to North Birmng-
ham today, as did Grasselli to Decatur
Car Wheel Works, the winning of these
two games puts Bessemer once more at
the head of the City league.
Social and Personal.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
PRESBYTERIAN church will meet Monday
afternoon at o'clock and arrangements
will be completed for the Tom Thumb
wedding to be given in the auditorium on
August 81.
Quite a number of Bessemer people left
this morning on the excursion for Tus-
caloosa. They returned tonight
Mrs Henry Thomas of Linnville Tenn,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. George Fl. Ste
yenson on Dartmouth avenue.
An illustrated service with moving pic
lures will be given at the Bungalow to-
morrow night by the Salvation Army.
Mrs. ]. s. Winters has as her guest her
brother, B. F. Young of st. Joseph, La
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