The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-03
REINSTATEMENT REPLIES ID CHARGE MADE BY M 'ADORY Submits Letters to Show Tigers Are Operated With
 Deputies Knowledge PALOS CASE CITED
 WITH THE LETTERS Excise Chairman Explains Circum- stances Surrounding Dismissal of
 Hopper-Questions Conduct
 of Various Deputies

| w. t+ ASee, cndlrnan or the JeHersOn
 county excise commission, issued a state
 ment yesterday in reference to the con-
 troversy between the sheriff of Jefferson
 county, Walter K McAdory and the com
 mission, as well as MT. Agee personally | In his statement the excise chairman here | goes into the details connected with the
 charges of Sheriff MeAdory His state-
 ment follows:
 | Referring to the reply of the sheriff
 relative to criticism of his office by my
 self and the Birmingham News, appearing in the press a few days ago. | note that
 the sheriff claims that he is averse to en- tering into newspaper controversies. and call attention to the fact that under date of September 29. he burst into pub lie print by publishing letter addressed to the excise commission of Jefferson county, criticising severely this commits sion for not consulting him before issuing licenses. which letter was given to the
 afternoon papers before it was delivered to this commission.
 Now, the sheriff says that I have seen fit to make comments that are not based
 upon facts, and while l will not go into all the facts, 1 shall endeavor to set forth sufficient facts to show upon what
 have based my comments.
 POlntS Out Mistakes
 "The sheriffs reply, under date of the 24th, is so weak and misleading that it
 hardly warrants comment. However,
 will say that he is entirely mistaken
 when he says that l have stated that |
 have "exact information" 750 blind tigers, and have caused their arrest. I
 have not at any time made any such statement I have said that there were
 some 75O blind tigers in Jefferson county after the legalized sale of liquors and as
 matter of fact if some 15 of these had been promptly and properly closed up, it would have practically put out of busi-
 ness the balance. This would simply have
 cut off the source of supply of the lttle fellow. who was furnished by some 15 large tigers, who were in effect whole ale distributors
 "The United States internal revenue of ficers have arrested number of these large dealers; they have waived examina-
 tion. and are under $500 bond each, and their cases are to be heard before tfe United States grand jury commencing the first week in March.
 "The arrests made by these officers for refilling bottles by several of the licensed
 dealers in the same shape. and in an swer to tile sheriff's criticism that we
 have taken no action in these cases, we propose to let the United States govern ment prosecute these cases first and then we propose to hear them also, there | by getting the full benefit of the work
 of the United States. officers, ss-.-s ----y--
 s7vssaa The Hopper Affidavit rv, s l Now the sheriff must have been sore | ly in need of weapon with which to
 make an attack when he brings up the | Hopper affidavit The facts are that as | president of the Birmingham Grain ex- change, the general freight agent of the Frisco system called me up over the phone and stated that we shad a man in our service who was granted a special privilege by his road of entering their yards and inspecting cars for members of our exchange, and they had found that he was going into other cars consigned to people who were not members of our cX- change, which was strictly in violation of the interstate commerce law covering their obligation to their patrons and he had issued orders to his watchmen that this man would not be allowed to enter the yards again. l stated to him that if this could be possible that this man would be immediately dismissed from tine service of the Birmingham Grain eX- change. and I immediately called a meet ing of the directors, summoned Mir. Hop per to appear before us, and he ac-
 knowledged the charges made by the rail- road company. and he was of course told that his services would be discontinued. Of course, we would take this same action today under similar circumstances since this man by his own acts made it inn possible to serve our exchange when the railway company had forbidden his enter ing their yards.