The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-09
BIC CROWD ATTENDS
 RAMEy'S HEARING
Lawyer Charged With Passing
 Saws Into Jail
WARDEN TAKES STAND
Prisoner In Jail Testifes That Majors Had Told Him That Ramey Was Going to Bring the
 Saws

A large crowd of spectators was on hand yesterday at o'clock in Judge H. B. Abernethy's division of the inferior court at the preliminary hearing of Mill ton T. Ramey, the Birmingham attorney charged with aiding felons in an attempt to escape from the county jail The en- tire afternoon was taken up in the hear ing of testimony of the states witnesses, the state resting at 5:SO o'clock, when ad- journment was takena until Wednesday afternoon at o'clock
 The star witnesses for the prosecution in the Ramey hearing were Edward L.. Newman, outside day warden at the coun- ty jail, and Robert Henderson and Will Smith, two prisoners confined in the 1ail.
 Warden Newman testified that Ramoy came to the county jail Monday after noon for the purpose ostensibly of con- ferring with some of his clients who are prisoners there. The warden had been forewarned by Robert Henderson. one of the prisoners, he testified, that Ra- mey would attempt to pass saws to Will | liam Majors, who Is held a prisoner at 1 the jail on an indictment of trainwreck- ] ing and murder. returned by the Septem-
 Der grand jury. Newman for that req son watched him closely, he stated. and l said nothing when he saw the attorney slip letter under the steel door leading
 to the interior of the jail to Will Smith. the prisoner with whom he was con ferring from the outside.
 Bailey placed number of parcels on shelf in my office, which were ad- dressed to William Bailey" said Warden Newman. "One of the parcels was a sma Il fat package of cheese sandwiches' which Ramey wanted delivered to Bailey, he said. He asked me to be sure they were delivered, and asked If Smith might carry them back to Bailey in the interior of the jail"
 The warden a few minutes later in- spected the box of cheese sandwiches, I" he testified, and found six small steel saws in 1t.
 Deputy Sheriff Irwin Steele, who. was present at the Jail office at the time of Rameys visit. corroborated Warden New mans testimony, except as to seeing the letter slipped under the jail door to Smith
 Robert Henderson, one of the county prisoners, who was placed on the stand to testify for the state, bore witness to tHe ldCt tndt WlllldH1 NdDOrS tOlu nm that Ramey was going to bring saws for him CNabors) and deliver them to him on the back porch of the jail during his conference with him. He testified fur ther that he had read a letter written by Ramey to Majors, in which the att torney stated he could not deliver the saws to him personally, but would see that he got them. This letter, according to Henderson, was addressed to William Bailey, but was for Majors.
 Will Smith, the other prisoner who was a witness for the state, testified that Ra- mey had told him during conference with him that he had left several pack ages with the warden addressed to Ball ey but that the package which contained the saws was for Nabors. Things for Ma bors were addressed to Bailey, Smith testified, for the reason that Bailey's mail and gifts from the outside were not in- spected by the warden, whereas Majors were. Smith also read the letter, he stated, and corroborated Henderson's tes- timony as to it's contents.
 Majors, the prisoner to whom 1t is al- legged the attempt was made to pass the saws. submitted written statement to Sheriff Tngdon yesterday afternoon, set ting forth his position in the case. The statement will be turned over to Solicitor Heflin to be used as evidence, and will not be given for publication, the sheriff states.
 Both Solicitor Heflin and Assistant So- licitor J. B. Aird are doing the prose- cutting. Ramey is being defended by the law firm of Gaston & Pettus.