The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-16
CROSS PEARCE IS
 NEXT ARRAIGNED
Jury Qualified Yesterday. Judge and Mrs. Blackwell
 Are Injured

Anniston, May .-(Special.)-Th writ ing of another chapter in the case or pr. John E. Pearce and associates, who are charged with having shot to death Shelt and Sarge Kennedy in pitched battle as the result of conspiracy on January II near the Calhoun Etowah bor- der line, was begun Monday morning in the city court of Anniston when Cross Pearce, son of Dr. Pearce, was brought into court to stand trial for alleged com- plicity in the killing Of the two men.
 Supernumerary Judge A. H. Aston of Clayton, Barbour county, will preside at this session of the court, relieving Judge Thomas W. Coleman, who presided at the regular session, at which Dr. Pearce was found guilty.
 Cross Pearce is said to have shot Sarge Kennedy. He admitted this on the stand, but he claims justification for the act, as he says young Kennedy was in the act Of shooting when he fired.
 AS heretofore. there was large crowd on hand when the case was called Mon day morning, the hearing for this req son being again held in the circuit court room. All of the morning session was taken up in qualifying the jurymen, 70 having been summoned. The case is not likely No be as long drawn out as was that of the boys father last month.
 Judge and Mrs. D. c. Blackwell of this city were painfully injured Sunday afternoon on North Noble street, when a buggy in which they were driving was -4,- ,..,I- |. ...t.~ throwing them out on the ground.
 Judge and Mrs. Blackwell were cross ing the street at the corner of Eighteenth and Noble. They did not see the ap- preaching car which struck the rear of their buggy. Both occupants were thrown to the ground with great force. Judge Blackwell received a gash on the top of his head. Mrs. Blackwell received a cheek wound and was badly bruised about the body. The horse did not run after the impact.
 Quite a number of veterans and visitors have gone from Anniston and Calhoun county to the reunion of United Confed- crate veterans at Little Rock. Among the veterans are Maj. Sam Smith, Col. H. L. Stevenson, J. H. Snodgrass, aides on Gen eral Oxford's staff; C. J. Houser, A. T. Hanna and others. Mrs. Snodgrass has gone as chaperone for the sponsor and her maids.
 L.. F. Greer, who has just completed an inspection of all the mines and camps where convicts are- worked in Alabama, states that he has recommended in a re- port to the governor that considerable be made at Speigner's, the state farm. MT. Greer says the convicts there are enjoying poorer facilities than at any other place in the state
 Capt. John Fitzgerald, who commands the Calhoun Rifles of Oxford, has re- turned from San Antonio. where he at tended the maneuvers Of the federal troops He says that the rains which have been falling there are greater than they have been in five years, and have damaged the onion crop of that section 50 per cent. 4es
 A spring which contains water of great purity and medicinal value has been dis covered at Rocky Hollow, near Oxford, and fit Is proposed to draw water from that source for the high school in the event 1t is located there, as the site sc- lected is very near this spring.