The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-27

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 .grhe itemized statement of the fees due the consta ble as shown by docket No. l. is marked Exhibit K and is hereto at ia ched and made a part of this report
 .sThe itemized statement of the Tees due the constable as. shown by docKet No. 9 is marked Exhibit l. and is here to attached and made part or this re- port sr+13
 "A careful compilation of all the data in my possession .discloses the Iono"ihs rema rkable discrepancies:
 There are 52 cases where papers have been sent to the grand jury that are not on either docket. (See report Of clerk criminal courD,
 ..rhere are 54 cases where persons have been committed to jail by the orders Of the judge of this court. and no entries have been made on the dockets. tsee jail recordb. ss ie
 There are 4s cases where warrants of arrest have been issued out of this court and no entries have been made on the dockets (See index to docket Mo- l and No. D..
 There are s4 cases where double en- t,ies have been made of the same case on the docket which the judge claims was due to my having one docket in my pos session at the time he made up the sec ond docket. 0See Donaldson testimony, contra.)
 .srhere are 21 cases where the docket entries are different from the names on the warrant. tSee, warrants and docket eitries). 4stas
 There are H cases where the papers have not been sent up 10 the higher court, though the dockets read grand jury' tSee report clerk criminal court.
 Green Baxemors wss tried (see' dock ct No. 2 page 4N,- IS days before the fuao rxrar | rant No. 19). Henry Howard was sent to jail eee jai, record) on the 10th day of'eJanu- sry, 1909. and the warrant for his ar rest (see warrant No. ID was not issued until January IS, 1909. ..ssa5 - i,9s. A q : Tom Lawson was sentenced to jail | (see docket No. 2, page 6i), on July Il. | 1910, and the warrant for his arrest (see warrant No. s2) was issued July 1s, 1910. seven days afterssentence by this court. "S. s. Puckett was convicted Decsm- Der q, 1908, (sse docket No. 3, page ID. and was not sent to jail until June 24. 1 1909 {See jail recordD six months and three days after trial. Why? CThe judge l claims 1t Is to be an error in the docket ertry). 7szs
 rom Howse was discharged (see dock ct No. l, page 104), and the papers in the case sent to the grand jury Why Mary Jones was sentenced to 90 days hard labor (sse Docket No. l, page 29) l on January 6. 1910, and the mittimus shows her sentence to be for six rnohths' l hard labor, and is dated this the 2stl, day of June, 1s10.' There Is another case | against Mary Jones (see Docket No. | l, page 4S, that reads for six monthz hard labor. (and for which there is s mittimus), but the jail record shows that Mary entered the jail on June 20, 1910 l -R IHa, a ,,fx &l-~ | fusion of dates is mystery. Perhaps l the Sl2. 50 hne case is- solution of the problem.
 | "The judge of this court has not com 1 piled with sections e662' and 74s2 of the code of Alabama in reporting to the judga of probate.
 The oral testimony fin this investiga- | tion covers 89 pages, In . number. of instances the witnesses have produced receipts and checks to verify their tss. timony, and these receipts and checks are in my possession. ss
 Cypress the Poor
 "A careful review of the testimony taken In this investigation. if the san,e be true. will cause the unbiased to opine | that this court, instead of being an in- stitution for the dispensing of justice be. tween man and man. has been converted l into vehicle for expressing the poor and the ignorant It would be far better for | the state of Alabama that every mis | demeanor criminal in the county of Jef- ferson should go sunpunished, than for a court to be run for the oppression oi ] those unable to, protect themselves. It Is doubtful if similar court in the state |has been guilty of perpetrating so many wrongs. as the evidence tends to show have been perpetrated by this court. ot | its Ininions.
 Tn this connection I call your partic- ular attention to the case of Will Bull lock. This ignorant negro may have vio- lated the law, and doubtless did. bu. about the 3oth day of June, 1910, he went to the foreman of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company under whom he was working, and told him his trol- bIes On that date the foreman wrote tc the constable of this court the follow ing letter: " sfr ~. D. June 30. 1910. '" MT Lee White. x as, ts.ss |
 '' Dear eir:t1 understand you have { warrant for one Win Bullock, badge 483 He is working for mes and went t< assist him In getting 1t settled. I don'' think from what he says 1t is a yer' serious charge. He said you would set tie for s. viii make good to you fol the money. If you can do this please ad wise me what about 1t by bearer. Re spectfuily yours, -- J.s E. BIEvINe.'--
 '.To which the constable of that cour wrote the following angwer:
 :. MT. Dievins: The warrant agains