The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-26
BROKER BROWN
 TOSUE DECATUR Spends Night in City Bas- tile for 'Nodding" at
 Railroad Station

Decatur, May 25.--(Special) )--Roy C. Brown, a well known broker of Hunts vile, head of the Brown Brokerage com pany of that city has employed council and says he will at once enter suit against the city of Decatur for s20,000 for false arrest and false imprisonment.
 MT. Brown gave the following statement to your correspondents: 'I arrived in De- catur last night about il o'clock. coming here on business connected with my firm, and intended to return to Huntsville on the 1:30 Southern train this morning. Hav- ing lost good deal of sleep and being very tired I fell asleep at the Union sta- ton while waiting for the train. I was not sound asleep, but merely holding, Two policemen came up and placed me under arrest, claiming that was drunk, which was not the case. I told them that I would put up a cash bond or make any kind of bond they wanted if they would only give me the chance. The police re- fused to allow me to communicate with the night in what they called the city jail. The jail is dirty and smells dreadfully and is unfit for a respectable negro, to say nothing of white man, to spend the night in To add to my humiliation they placed in the cell with me a drunken white man. I did not disrobe, but walked the cell floor all night I do wish to say that the jaler is one of the whitest men have ever met, he treated me like a prince"
 MT. Brown was sighted for trial in the police court this morning at o'clock Policeman White, one of the officers who made the arrest, stated to Mayor Skeggs in open court that Mir Brown was stand ing on the outside of the ticket window nodding. Mayor Skeggs continued the case against MT. Brown until tomorrow morning as Policeman Bass, the other policeman who made the arrest, was not present. In the meantime MT. Brown made cash bond and will, he says, fight the case to a f1nish.'
 After an illness of few days Clayton, S. E. Berry. died yesterday at their home 425 East Pond street. The remains were taken to Friendship, this county, where the funeral and the interment took place this morning.
 The Decatur chapter No. 3S, R. A. NJ, has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: pr. w. A. Rickles, high priest; A. A. Hardage, king; Charles Bas- r B. Harvey, secretary; Rev. J. J. Cornish, chaplain; J. w. Riser, captain of hosts; w. R. McClesky, principal sojourner; c. L. Peck, royal arch captain; J. D. Me Nabb, master of third veil w. G. Me Koin, master of second veil; E. F. Graves, master of first veil George w. Young, sentinel.
 The building of the Tennessee Valley bank, which was burned at Stevenson, Ala, short time ago. is now being re- built, the contractor being Joseph W. Frahn of New Decatur Since the burn ing of the bank building this bank has been occupying temporary quarters in rented building. This is one of s. s. Broadus chain of banks.
 A milk depot and ice cream factory Is to be established in Decatur within the next two months. The company will be composed of Foster H. Pointer of Decatur, F. M Ewing of Crescent View, Tenn, and Joseph Chapman of Maury county Ten nessee. A building for the factory will be erected at once on Bank street
 The milk and cream will be supplied from the Crescent View farm in Tennes- see, 37 miles north of Decatur on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. The farm is owned by F. M. Ewing of Nash ville, Tenn, and is said to be one of the best dairy farms in the south