The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-23
J|NWR|GHT CASE
 BEFORE HIGH COURT Impeachment Proceedings
 Begun By State PLANS PRESENTED
Showing Arrangement of Jail From Which Negro Was Taken and Lynched at Union
 Springs

Montgomery May 22.-(Special) )-Ex- l animation of witnesses in the proceed
 ings to impeach Sheriff P. W. Jinwright
 of Bullock county, for alleged neglect of
 duty and connivance with the mob that
 took Aberdeen Johnson from the Bull
 lock county jail at Union Springs on
 Sunday. April 2, and put him to death,
 was begun Monday in the supreme court 1 of Alabama.
 The witnesses for both the state and the defendant, numbering nearly fifty.
 were all sworn in a body, after which l Attorney General Robert .. Brickell read to the court the charges against Sheriff Jinwright.S Five charges were named by the attorney general. including incompetency, neglect of duty, and con. nivance with the mob that took the al- legged rapist from the jail and put him to death.
 When the charges were read three wit nesses for the state were examined at the morning session. These were J. M. Pollard, of Union Springs; Guy Rich, deputy sheriff of Bullock county, and E. A. Chadwick, architect, of Montgomery.
 Deputy Sheriff Rich testified to putting Johnson in jail, and that he securely locked the cell after securing his pris- oner
 He stated to the court that he had trailed the negro for several days, and that he had brought him to Union Springs.
 F.. A Chadwick showed plans which he had made of the Bullock county jall, and explained to the court various fea- lures of the prison. MT. Chadwick was sent to Union Springs by attorneys for the state to secure these drawings, and his testimony Monday was regarded as very important to the state.
 At the afternoon session the examina- ton of witnesses was continued, and it is probable that the attorneys will not finish taking evidence in the case before the middle of the week. The court ad- journed at o'clock this afternoon until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 The Jinwright trial has created wide spread interest throughout the state. The proceedings against Sheriff Jinwright were instituted at the instance of Gov. Emmet O'Neal, and the charges were filed in the supreme court by Attorney General BrickeI. The sheriff of Bullock county is charged, in brief, with compIicity in the lynching of Aberdeen Johnson, the alleged negro rapist, who assaulted Mrs. J. J. Butts, the wife of prominent Bull lock county planter on March 3. After a month. in which a vigorous search for the negro was prosecuted, the rapist was caught and taken to the Bull lock county jail, at Union Springs. On | a aStOrmAd overpowered the sheriff, and secured the prisoner whom they lynched, riddllng the negro's body with bullets.
 In his answer to the charges of the Attorney General, Sheriff Jinwright, through his attorneys, Messrs. l.. M. Mosely and Ernest Blue of Union Springs, plead not guilty. The answer was filed in the supreme court about two weeks ago.
 The attorneys for the state are Att torney General BriclIell, R. B. Evins of Greensboro, and J. D. Norman of Birmingham. The attorneys for the de- fendant are l.. M. Mosely and Ernest Blue of Union Springs and Judge A. A. Evans, former justice, of the supreme court of Montgomery.
 The witnesses who have been sum- moned are as follows: For the state E. V. O'Connor of Mobile, E. A. Chad wick of Montgomery, c. NJ. Edwards, Miss Lille Bell Jones. A. E. Singleton, J. will Thompson, & T. Rainer, Henry Oscar Ellis, al lof Union Springs; J. M Tucker of Prattville, J. M. Pollard of Luverne, Guy Rich of Union Springs, J. M Nunnellee recording clerk in the governors office, and Secretary John D. McNeel of the governors office.
 The witnesses for the defendant are:- F. P. Cade, w. F. Patterson. W. M. Cameron, c. F. Gholston, F. F.. Wig ham. J. H. Rainer, P. J. Smith, P. l.. Cowan, Henry Cogwell, W. w. Rainer, Sr.. c. c. Stroud, J+~ H. Law, S. P. Rainer, Miss Lula Bell Jones, T. B. Miles. W. W. Cowan. Hugh Foster. George A Andrews, M. M. Hey, Sam Floyd. j. B. Cranberry, R. E. L. Coke and W. w. Rainer, Jr.. of Union Springs and J. NJ Hall of Pine Grove, and Jim Walters of Gashen, Pike county.
 Five witnesses appeared for the state at the afternoon session of the supreme, court. the most interesting testimony of which was that given by MissALila Belle Jones, long distance telephone oper- ator, who stated that she heard part of the conversation between Governor O'Neal and Sheriff Jinwright relative to the warning against probable lynch ing and regarding the dispatch of troops to the scene. She mentioned that Sheriff Jinwright would have the troops sent by automobile but that the chief executive favored the train Other witnesses for the state were E. L. Persons, a conductor of the Gen. tral of Georgia railway train, which brought the armed men to Union Springs. who said that there was ire quent talk of mob violence; J. T. Tuck CT, Prattville attorney, who was in Union Springs; pr. w. H. Oates, state prison inspector, and J. G. Carmichael, a former sheriff of Bullock county. Testimony was taken slowly. the probabilities being that examination of witnesses will not be completed before Wednesday. Court adjourned about 5 o'clock to meet again at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.