The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-28
NOVEMBER IS FULL
 OF TRAGIC EVENTS Birmingham Has Had Un-
 usual Number SOME CONDOLENCES
Two Popular Young Men Lost Lives on the Eve of Their Wedding Days-Other Unusual
 Deaths

A backward look over the month of No vember shows a surprisingly large num- Der of tragic and sensational incidents taking place in the Birmingham district in two instances, history repeated it. selfn In other words, unusual coinci- dences have come to pass.
 The first coincidence of this kind which is noted is in the arrest of Anthony Moss, charged with killing his brother-in-law, on November 19, and the arrest of Wal ter Qiunn last Friday night charged also with killing his brother-in-law. Quinn was later cleared of this charge by Coro- ner HGasher
 Another strange coincidence, but yet one of the saddest ever recorded in the annals of a community is the tragic death of two prospective grooms, within a week of one, another. On the afternoon of November 20, M. E. Torphy, a young man who was to have been married the following morning at o'clock, received burns about the body which resulted in his death at 2:S0 o'clock a. m, seven and half hours before the moment which was to have been the happiest in his life. The other prospective groom who met his death in an equally tragic man. ner was John M. Massey. who was killed in the fire Of Saturday morning, when he was crushed to death by falling timbers in the Bragg building on Third avenue. Massey was to have married Miss Annie Fuqua of this city on December '. The furniture for their household had already been purchased and all was in readiness for the happy event.
 Without these coincdences, the record of events for any 30 days is startling with in itself First the attempted murder of his wife and the self destruction of him self by Arthur Massey on November 1 was a sensation in Birmingham. The husband in a jealous rage, almost fatally injured his wife and then shot himself.
 Following this on November 13, was the killing of Constable Will Elard at Lewis burg, for which Tom Hagan Bob Payne and Jim Putnam are now in the county jail The killing is the last of series of unexplainable unavenged murders hap pening in that community in the past IS months. There has been no killings in late years which has so stirred the en- tire county as this one
 On November 19, Anthony Moss, white man, shot Barton Haggetry accidentally and George Cook intentionally, according to his own statement, inflicting wounds from which they died the same night. Moss claimed that Cook had insulted his wife and set out to avenge the insult. The death wound received by Haggerty was accidental and is greatly deplored by Moss.
 Harry Schwarz, a German, came to his death at a local infirmary, and the affair for the time being, was shrouded in mys- tery. The cause of his death was as- cribed to blow on the head, but subse- quent developments proved that he died from tetanus, or lockjaw, induced by 8 scratch on the foot In the interim, his brother-n-law, Walter Quinn, was ar rested charged with the crime. Quinn was released the next day by the coroner,
 Last Friday night fire was discovered in the Bragg building on Third avenue between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets occupied by the Roberts and Sons printing establishment and the furniture storage department of Loveman, Joseph and Loeb. At this fire a loss estimated at $20O0OO was entailed, three firemen painfully injured and one, John M. Mas sey was killed.