The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-30
EXAMINATION MAY
 BE MADE OF BODIES
Defendants In Murder Case
 Seek Evidence
FEELING IS STILL HIGH
Some Fear Is Entertained That Friends of the Prisoners and Others May Take Up the
 Case md Make Trouble

Anniston, January 2e.-(Special.)-The latest feature to the Pearce- Kennedy feud case, which occupied the attention of the city court of Anniston on It's pre- liminary investigation last week, drawing hundreds to the county courthouse every day, is proposition to exhume the bodies of Shelton J. Kennedy and Sarge Ken nedy, father and son, who are said to have been murdered by the Pearce fac ton on January IA as the result of an alleged conspiracy.
 This procedure Is being sought by Dr. John E. Uearce and his associates, who are now held without ball in the Cal houn county Jail to answer for the al legged murder before the next city court grand jury this coming spring, and the attorneys for the defense of the accused men, Tate & Walker and Knox. Acker, Dixon & Blackmon, are now considering the advisability of acting accordingly.
 The actuating motive for this proposed step is a proposition to hold a post mortem examination of the dead bodies, for the purpose of securing additional evidence to be introduced at the final hearing in the noted case. In the pre- liminary hearing the testimony introduced by the state tending to show that the two deceased Kennedys had been shot in the back was regarded as the strongest evidence against the alleged conspira- tors. being used by the state to refute the plea of justification by reason of self-defense that was invoked by the at torneys for the accused men.
 Dr. Pearce claims that nobody saw the dead bodies of the feud victims after they had been taken from the scene of the affray except friends of the Kennedy family it being alleged that a physician sent to the home by the Pearce faction was debarred from the dead room. It is further averred that the coroner was not permitted to witness the dead bodies be- fore they were inferred. and hence the demand for the disinterment proceedings and the post-mortem examination.
 News from the scene of the bloody duel is to the effect that feeling is still running high among the friends of the 1t would not be surprising if another out break of the longstanding neighborhood war should occur at any moment. This
 would have been almost certain, 1t Is said, if Pearce had returned to the scene after the pitched battle.
 c. w. Daugette, president of the Ala
 bama Normal college at Jacksonville,
 just north of this city, was in Anniston Sunday en route to Montgomery. and in referring to his school he stated that he is very confident of securing the in creased appropriation which he is asking with a view of completing the new build- ing which was erected last year and thus relieve the congestion that now prevails at this big Calhoun county institution. The people of Anniston and all north east Alabama are very much interested in MT. Daugettes fight in this connection. The Alabama Normal in this state now ranks with the State university and the Alabama Polytechnic institute from a standpoint of attendance, having made the remarkable record of increasing the scholastic enrolment by about TOO per cent in a little over a decade, during
 which time 1t has outgrown three build ings. Through the training of teachers
 who go into the rural schools through out the state, this institution is doing I great work toward lifting Alabama to a higher rank among the educational states of the union
 R. D. Gam, president of the Alabama State Federation of Labor. of this city, received a ''C. 0. D." message Saturday
 night from Fourth Vice President M. E..
 Bargainer of Montgomery, calling him
 to that city, where he is wanted to rem der assistance In pushing the measures that have been championed by organized labor before the state solons.
 MT Gam, chairman, went to Birming ham Saturday evening and on Sunday he was in consultation with the legis- lative committee of the state federation, consisting of P. H. Doherty of Mobile, J. B. Pippen of Sheffield, Lewis Bowen and J. A. Hynds of Birmingham. Meet Ing with this committee in an advisory capacity were w. A. Morris, president of the farmers union; J. A. Kennamer, a district mine president; J. B. Drake, police commissioner, Editor Mosley of the Labor Advocate and E. H. Theis, for many years an organizer for the Amer ican Federation of Labor.
 President Gam claims to have Repre- sentative Walker Percy, the Calhoun representatives and state senator and other leaders committed to the cause of labor, and he seems hopeful of securing favorable action on the measures which the labor men have championed. He Is now at Montgomery and will be joined la ter by the legal counsel of the, state federation.
 The directors of the Farmers Union Warehouse company in this county are considering the advisabilty of putting the question of enlarglng the present build ing up to a meeting of the stockholders at an early date. The question came up at a meeting of the stockholders here last Saturday afternoon, at which time it was reported that the warehouse prof. ect has met with exceptional success since it's inception a few years ago, and an enlargement of the present building now seems imperative.
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