The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-15
ONLY PERSONS INVITED
 TO THE MORRIS HOTEL

TO THE MORRIS HOTEL
 ''The only persons whom I invited to the Morris hotel for the purpose of try ing to sell them stock were the Hon. David J. Fox, an ex-mayor of Birming ham; the Hon. George B. Ward, also an ex-mayor of the city; the Hon. John w. Altman, register in chancery for Jefferson county, and the Hon. Walter | E. McAdory, sheriff of this county. Neith- l CT of these gentlemen had then, have | now, or have eyer contemplated hay | ing or acquiring any interest in the l liquor business.
 "rhe following persons, viz: A. E.. | Meehl, w. F. Eidge, T. M. Cate, George | Cavolas and w. J. Lasseter, who were among the 29 witnesses examined, were present on one occasion in the Morris | hotel, but not in room 215 as the gov ernor's legal adviser and the attorney general assert fin their report to the gov ! ernor, and my opinion was asked by one | of them about investing in the Alamo Gas and oil company's stock. At that | time I did not know who they were, | with the exception of MT. Lasseter, and
 only surmised from a question asked me l by one of them namely Tony Meehl | that he or any of them were likely to become applicants to sell intoxicants in | this county.
 "The question which he asked me was this: MT Bowman, 1t is rumored on the streets that if man buy this
 stock it will aid him in obtaining a IT,
 cense to sell intoxicating liquors in this county; is this true? To which I re- piled: Absolutely, no. And if there is
 a man in this room who has bought this stock under that impression my ad- vice to him is to return his stock to the secretary of the company and get his
 notes back, as the purchase of the stock l .l.t.. | wise aid or injure his chances in securing liquor license
 My statement to Mir. Meehl was in. corporated in his testimony which ht gave at the investigation, and each of tn, other gentlemen above named, except MT I.asseter, who said nothing about ga, stock. who talked to me on that oc casion about the gas stock, testified tt the same thing.
 M'CORD TESTIFIED
 THE WORDS WERE FALSE
 "Mr. McCord took the stand, and arte having been duly sworn, testified tha
 Mctzs testimony was absolutely false
 and fin this he was corroborated by Metz,
 friend Thompson as well as by the writ ten ana sigred statement by Metz ant
 Thompson. Each and every one of thu
 go witnesses put upon the stand. un | couivocallv testified that MT. J. G. Oak lev was not In room 215 at the MOrri hotel, or in any other room of said ho
 tel while they were there so far a , they knew. That he never held any con
 yersation with them about saloon licenses
 gas stock. or anything else.
 1.-The Alamo Gas and oil company ha
 been duly Incorporated, owns vaIuabl ! p,cperty and franchises and about s15, GOO of it's stock has been sold since tn investigation and laregly on the testI : mony developed at said investigation. N man who subscribed for that stock ha
 paid In one dollar in cash, but ha given his notes under the terms and con : | tiitions stated. Of the s20,000 or more 0 , stock which has been subscribed for lonfy sf2000 or s15OO worth, as 1 am inform , ed and believe. has been subscribed fo