The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1911-02-01
Is HOMICIDBS Is
JANUARY RECORD
CORONER CONSIDERED UNLANy-
Full. : JUsTIFIABLE AND AC-
CIDENTAI-TOTAL OF VIOLENT
DEATHS REPORTED Is 81

| his monthly report for the work done
by him during the month of January
The report shows that a total of oil
deaths have been investigated by the
coroner during the month of January
1t is believed that the homicides dur
ing the past month will be record
There were a total of Is homicides dur
ing the month OF this number were
unlawful and justifiable. Two were
accidental.
The report also shows that there
were accidental deaths during the
month. one railroad accident, one sui
eide, five deaths from explosions nine
died from unknown causes and 70 OF
the deaths Investigated were from nat
ural causes The past month was one
of the busiest that Coroner Brasher mas
spent
The renort in full of the coroner is
as follows:
January /. William Pierson, white
Gate City. accidental gnnsho OF
wound. January 2, Amelia Harris,
colored, city, heart failure; January
Hunter. White, Joe Otwell, white, ana
Tom Shurley, colored. EnsleY, explo-
sion; January /, Kirk Sullivan, colored'
city. railroad accident; January B.
Holm Evens, colored, city, hemorrag e
Of the lungs January 8, infant Oh iua
Busby, white, city, bold hives; January
4. James NJ Kennedy, white, city ap-
poplexy; January 4, Classin Hardin
colored, city, heart failure; January
| r. Bertha Jones. colored, Ensley, tu-
berculosis: January A. Mrs. Minnie
ertson, white, city suicide; Janua
lake Strong, colored, city, heart
IRE: January G, r. r.. Landers,
Ressemer. accidental homicide; ia
| r. Hv Henderson, colored. Bay ~
station, near Mnlga, pneumonia
airy T, Quincyleen Dent, colored, l.
wood, near Boyles, burned TO -
January I, Wade Hughler, color ~
/ iustifiable homicide; January IN
of Emma Rhymes, colored. Ems IN
,on,r oousae. January 6. IsoI 9TH
colored. Leeds accident; ia s
infon+ Of Fannie Flemming, lite
Brooks Coaling, Irondale, unknown
| causes; January 10, Mandy KENNEDY
colored, Elyton. unknown causes Jan
nary IL, Guy r. Coleman and stephen
IT strickland. white, city, poisoned
January il, Clyde Mehaffy, white, CITY,
unlawful homicide; January IL, Mat
tie Ware, colored, city, tuberculosis
January u, Nix Thomas and John Ro-
dith, white, Ensley, unavoidable ac-
cident at the new dam of the Tennes-
see Coal, Iron and Railroad company
January IL, Frank Cook, colored, men,
engitis: January 70, Julia May Evans,
colored. Ensley, Ala. unknown causes;
January -, Andrew Dodson, colored,
city, dropsy; January 2, infant OF susie
Lee, colored, city, natural; January ~
| infant of Cora Hargrove, colored, CITY,
natural; January IS, Henry Jackson
colored. city. unlawful homicide; Jan
nary IA. Charles Harris, colored, Bes-
semer, unlawful homicide, January TO-
Lucy Gray, white. East Lake. unknown
causes: January II, Ernest Drake, col
ored. pneumonia; January 13, FRANKS
Harris. colored, city, unknown causes;
January a. Tom Knox, white Llt,ie-
ton. railroad accident; January 10, Mar
tin Johnson, colored city, unlaWiul
homicide; January IT, Ralph Richard'
son. colored, Sayerton, overcome oy
gas: January is, Frank McFafiahu'
white, city, pneumonia; January as
Ike Alexander colored. Praco' Jus'i-
fable homicide; January 10, Docla Bof-
ders. colored, Riley Station on the
South Ensley car line, unknown causes
January 10, Lewis johnson, celored,
CITY. Unsuitable homicide; January ~
Ella Presley, colored. city, pneumonia
January 20, Smelling, white, CITY, hear'
failure; January 81, Ollias Sadler col
ored. unlawful homicide, January a.
Walter Cratick, colored, Banner Mines
UNSUITABLE homicide; January 20 Chaf1es
Miller, colored, new dam, Ensley' eN-
nlosion: January "a, Lorena Manning,
colored. city, pneumonia; January "a
Na,lia Garter. colored, Ensley, pneu-
monia; January "a, Lillian knight, col
ored, Bessemer unlawful hoiileiue'
January 23, Lavana Birchfield, colored
city. cancer; January "a ii. W. brlssS
white and Jacob Green, coloreo' ave-
nue. G and Twenty-tirst street, city
electrocuted; January "A, Henry Eu
dings, colored, city, tuberculosis jan
uarv "a, Annie Il. Ratcliff, Whlte, CITY
heart failure; January %. unknown COL
ored infant Pratt City, unknown
causes: January 4, Mandy Eastman, col
ored, Bessemer, heart failure; January
%. Jesse Horton. colored, city, un-
known causes; January 80, Nathan L.
Armstrong, white, Sayre, explosion,
January 80, unknown infant, race I'M
known. Owenton, unknown causes.