The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-16

 was absolutely innocent of causing the Cunningham wreck.
 The move of the defense in attempting to prove an alibi in the Decatur case was necessitated by the ruling of the court last week allowing testimony to be introduced by the state regarding the Decatur wreck in August. It was the contention of the state that the same man Is guilty of both the Cunningham and Decatur wrecks, since warning was found near the scene of the latter wreck apparently in the same handwriting as the threatening letters received by Su- perintendent T. E. Brooks
 To prove the alibi for Majors, pr. ". w. Murray of New Decatur, prac- ticing physician; Mrs. Barbara Brown of West Decatur, sister-in-law of the de- fendant, and Mrs. Emma Donovan, an- other sister-in-law, were placed on the stand. Dr. Murray testified that he was attending Mrs Majors, who was suffer- ing with bone felon, on August 1, 2 and of this year. The Decatur wreck occurred on the night of August ? at N--NNN Majors was at home with his wife all that night. The other witnesses corrob- orated Dr. Murray's testimony, stating that they were with Mrs. Majors from ? D. m. on August to the morning of August 8, and that Majors was there all the time. James Brown of New Decatur stated that Majors home is two miles distant from the scene of the Decatur wreck.
 What Harrison Said
 Jack Curran, T. s. Atkinson and w. c. McCarty testified yesterday afternoon that they heard T. V. Harrison, engineer on the same train with Nabors on the right of the wreck, say that Majors was absolutely innocent of the Cunningham wreck and that the fireman was talk ing with him during the entire time from the arrival of freight No. 71 at the sid ing to the collision with No. 4, the north bound passenger. McCarty and Atkin- son testified that Harrison made the statement while in McCarty's office at Woodlawn some time after Majors arr rest. Curran testified thSt the engineer made the same statement while in Vcom- rany with him and others in the alley adjoining the county jail on the day fol- lowing Nabors' arrest.
 David Watts, the engineer of passenger No 4, who was witness for the state, was recalled by the defense yesterday and testified that his relations with Ma bors had been nothing but friendly pre- vious to the wreck at Cunningham.
 To Discredit Browns Testimony
 An effort to discredit the testimony of Bradley Brown, formerly in the employ of Marshall Jordan & Co.,. as sales man, was made by the defense yester- day morning. Brown testified Monday afternoon that he had overheard Majors make the assertion a day or two pre- wreck the first passenger train he could. The witness stated that he overheard the conversation in the vicinity of Avenue D and Fifteenth street that night, where he had just sold some goods to John Bearman, proprietor of store at l4oo Avenue F.
 Browns testimony to this enect was discredited by John Bearman, proprietor of the store; Arthur Crumbee, clerk in the store w. M. Jordan of the pro- duce firm of Marshall, Jordan & Co.,, and J. E. Keith, also a\ member or the firm. MT. Jordan and MT. Keith stated that no sales had been made to MT. Bearman during December last. MT. Bearman and Crumbee testified that no orders had been given Brown until April, 1910, and that he then represented the produce firm of Douglass Bros.