The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-23
MURDER CASESARE FULL OF INTEREST Anniston City Court Con- venes Next Monday EVIDENCE REVIEWED Sensational Conspiracy Case Will Be Called-Fire Department
 Holds Annual Anni-
 yerSary
EVIDENCE REVIEWED

Anniston, February 22.-(Special) Jun
 usual interest is attached to the meeting
 of the city court grand jury next Monday afternoon. as at least ten defendants will
 have to come before the body to face the charge of murder. notable among whom
 will be the men who are said to have
 killed Shelton J. Kennedy and Sarge Ken
 nedy. father and son. in a pitched battle
 on the Calhoun Etowah border line sev- eral weeks ago.
 | The alleged principals in this affair are | Dr. John E. Pearce. an itinerant dentist and saw mill owner: Cross Pearce. his son: W. K. Kennedy, father and grand | father of the dead men: Ada Kennedy, daughter of W. K. Kennedy; brother and aunt of the dead men: John and Eaton | Fowler.
 | All of these men were arraigned before
 Judge Thomas W. Coleman last month in l a preliminary Investigation. They were held without bond except Ada Kennedy, | whom the testimony favored, it being | shown that she acted in the nature of a 1 peacemaker. During the preliminary | hearing. hundreds from Calhoun and | Etowah attended.
 Killed Over English Bible An English Bible, which is said to have
 been the cause of the killing. will play a
 part in the investigation of the charge
 of murder against Henry and Ida Ma
 this. who are charged with the death of
 Henry Canada. a we'll known colporter,
 who made his home in West Anniston. | A certain amount of mystery attached | to the killing of Canada. He had gone | to the home of the negroes in an alley l to collect for a testament, it is said, when
 he was knocked in the head with heavy | instrument, his body placed in a buggy | and the horse started toward home. Sus-
 pIcion was at first directed toward the son l of the unfortunate man when he was | found at his home in an unconscious con- dition. but after the coroner's inquest the l two negroes were taken into custody and are held in the county jail.
 | l.. J. Maxwell, district commercial su- | perintendent J. c. Duann, district plant superintendent; J. R. Potts., district and | commercial agent, all of the Western | Union Telegraph company, were in Annis- f ton on tour of inspection Wednesday. They came to this city from Jacksonville, I Fla. 10 which place headquarters were recently moved from Atlanta. While in | the city they renewed the lease on the ! Western Union building here, and have | made plans for extensive improvements | in the local plant, which is an important testing point for north Alabama. The | building will also be extensively inn | proved and beautifed
 l D. G. Peasants, representative of the Texas Oil company, with headquarters | in Birmingham, has been in Anniston in- vestigating the prospects of locating an
 office in this city. For number of years | the Standard had monopoly here. but
 recently the Indian Refining company To-
 cated here and began to mix with it ] for competitive trade | Members of the .Anniston fire depart
 ment gathered around the festive board i at the American house Wednesday even- | ing in celebration of the 26th anniversary l of the organization of the Anniston de-
 partment. Several honorary members and
 Invited guests were present on the oc- cason The members of the department were in full uniform.
 William Carter and Miss Lula Putnam,
 who have been students at the Jackson | vile Normal college for some time. were
 united in marriage at the home of Mrs.
 R. M. Kelley in this city Tuesday after | noon. Dr. w. r. Marlborough. pastor of
 Parker Memorial Baptist church, officiat- | ing The young couple left after the
 ceremony for Guntersville, their future
 home.
 S. A. Russell president of the Sixth District Sunday School association, has
 called convention to be held in this city at the First Presbyterian church on Sun
 day afternoon for the purpose of confer II ring with D. w. Sims, state secretary, in regard to the convention which will be
 held here by the state workers in April MT. Sims will deliver an address. w. T. Watt, agent for the farmers
 demonstration and cooperative work un. der the department of agriculture ir
 north Alabama, was in Anniston Tuesday He ia instructing W.fJ. Moore, who has just been appointed agent in the Annistor district to succeed J. R. Turner, whose methods will be perpetuated by the new appointee.