The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-22
BIBLE" MURDER
 CASE IS CALLED Jury to Find Cause of Col
 pOrter's Death A GIFT TO A CHURCH Mrs. Atkins Gives Ten Room Build ing for Seminary in Jackson
 yille-Steele Claims He
 Is Guiltless
A GIFT TO A CHURCH

Anniston, April 21.-(Specal. .)-The so- called Bible" murder case was call d in the city court of Anniston Friday morning and Percy Mathis. a negro, was arraigned before the bar of justice to answer for the death of Henry Canada, a white man.
 MT. Canada was a well-known colpor ter, residing in West Anniston. It is said that he was struck a fatal blow on the head by the Mathis negro when he went to the home of the latter to collect IT a Bible which he had delivered there some time before. His body was placed in a buggy after the blow had been struck, and the horse carried him to his home where he was later found in an unconscious condition, stripped of his collections. His son was suspected, but the latter was later exonerated and the negro accused by a coroner's jury, being later indicted by the grand jury
 Two witnesses in the case were given a touch of punishment by Judge Cole man Friday morning. Addie Scroggins was fined for being tardy and Robert Cody was sent to jail for the same of fense.
 Another Train Victim For the fourth time in about fort night a fatal accident occurred in the local railway yards Thursday night. when Anderson Heard, negro employe of the Southern, was killed at the coal chute in the southern part of the city. The negro's head was completely severed from his body and he was otherwise mangled, his remains being discovered on the track by employees on a pass ing engine, who turned the light upon the dead body as they approached.
 Big Gift for Church
 Mrs. Fannie Atkins, well-known phil anthropist of Jacksonville, Calhoun coun- ty, this state, has given a 10-room build ing at that place to the Cumberland Presbyterian church, to be used as a seminary for the training of ministers.
 Mrs. Atkins named as trustees of the institution S. N. Mlligan of that place. T. E. Cullen of Gadsden and w. M Franklin of Birmingham.
 This is the third gift of the kind that Mrs. Atkins has made in Calhoun coun- ty within recent years. Her first gift was a farm and several tenant houses to the Salvation army, this being followed by the gift of a large tract of land to the State Normal college of Jacksor- vile.
 Steele Says He Is Guiltless
 In a letter to a personal friend in this city, L. Carroll Steele, head of the de- funct Steele, Miller & Co.,, cotton firm of Corinth, Miss, who was taken to the Atlanta penitentiary Thursday, says that he is deeply touched by the manifesto tions of loyalty on the part of friends in Anniston. his boyhood and early man. hood home, and he says that he is guilt : less of the frauds for which he is be- ing placed In the penitenriary. Mr. Steele stood very high in Anniston society dur ing his residence here, and deep regret has been expressed at his misfortune
 Alexandria in Race
 Alexandria has entered the race as a competitor of Oxford and Piedmont in the race for the location of the state high school for this county, and it IS said that the citizens of that place have already raised the s10,0O0 demanded by the state of the town where the school is to be located Oxford and Piedmon. continue in the race, which waxes warm all the time.