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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-30
TAKE NO ACTION
 TO STOP BETTING

Indianapolis, october 2s.--After tho announcement from Hammond, Ind that racing would be resumed at the Mineral Springs race track. now that the state military has departed, Mark Thistlethwaite, the governors secre- tary, says the troops may be returned to Porter.
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jury Intentionally did anything wrong. | Perhaps some of their members who visited the amshouse got the same im- | pression as the secretary of the Asso- ciated Charities, but to my mind and to ! the mind of others the conditions are not near as bad as the secretary of the Associated Charities and the grand jury would have the people believe
 Superintendent Taylor Talks | Speaking of the criticism of the grand jury, MT. Taylor said;
 | T think that the report is unfair and believe it was prompted by an unfair spirit and an underhand influence. think Mr F. M. Jacksons statement as 1 to Mr McGrath's attack on the alms- house management and the conditions here shows the motivt, and the man be- | hind the criticism This man McGrath has been nagging at me in all sorts Of ways for some time, and I am not going to submit to it any longer. As to my | work I will say briefly
 1 q have cut the cost of the maintenance of this institution from $13,oo0 per year under my predecessor with an average of 50 inmates, 10 $10,0O0. with an acerage of 9i inmates. with the additional saving | to the county and city of moving all the pest house patients to that institu- tion the burying of the pauper dead of the city and county from the almshcuse, the HilIman hospital the pest house of the 1 county and the digging of the graves for l the city paupers. This is an item in it. self that for coffins,. shrouds. hauling and grave digging will figure quite sum, about $S50O per annum, gross saving to city and county Of 5000 year.
 We have found some of our inmates in coke ovens, other in filth and filthy 1 novels; we have hauled them to the aims house. washed, ,,clothed and fed them, giving them a clean bed to sleep on | Many of them were probably never so well cared for before, particularly the negroes.
 Naturally Unclean | Now doctors and nurses will tell you that there are patients that 1t IS well night impossible to keep immediately tc.ean We have some of these to care for all the time Our inmates are so feeble, or in such poor physical condition, we cannot sometimes get enough energy out of them to- clean up the institution and have to hire help
 ''a have brought the farm at kitona-- al one time poor land, to a productive ness that makes 1t a paying proposition. II put upon it 15o0 loads of homemade manure.
 Tn addition to a summer and winter garden five acres supplying abundance of seasonable vegetables 1 have grown and gathered 800 bushels of corn l5 tons of hay $50 bushels of sweet potatoes and am marketing now fine crop of turnips, the surplus of which will yield about S10o to the county.
 we average about 100 patients per month.
 Tubercular Patients
 ..I want to say just here that the county is giving to the tuberculosis camp S400 per month, over half of what it costs to run the almshouse, and that 1 we are caring for an average of F pa ticnts that should by rights be in that
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The seventh amendment to the consti- tuition of the United States declares that Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor crue and unusual punishments inflicted" The constitution of the state of Alabama in section IS reiterates the above.
 It Is everywhere recognized that stereo- typed punishments fail to take due ac- count of the particular condition of an offense and the character and circum- stances of the offender; such punishments operate very unequally on the rich and the poor.
 Fifty dollars and 90 days" means bu. little to the well to do and influential fer an appeal generally stays the sent ence, and when brought to a final adjudi- cation rarely stands in the higher courts but to the poor and unfortunate, .'s50 and 90 days means shackled degradation on the streets of the city, branding them for ever as parahs and outcasts.
 The affluent and influential can always secure redress from the harsh rulings of the court. but the friendless wretch that gets soaked sometimes at the mere
 
 sentence no matter how severe and un- just it may be. Punishment can only be justified when it protects society by act ing as d deterrent to crime. or when ii aims at the moral regeneration of the offender
 One of the backest chapters in the history of the English judiciary is the regime of Judge George Jeffreys. At the "bloody assizes" held after the uprising of the Duke of Monmouth, 320 persons were sentenced to death by him and were legally executed. Many hundreds more were transported beyond the seas and sold into slavery. The name of Judge Jeffreys became a by-word for infamy, and he was designated as "an inhuman bully who prostituted the seat of jus tice. His reign on the bench was one long record of cruelty and oppression; helpless prisoners were sent to the scal- fold for the most trivial offenses.
 In the preface to one of his most noted works Dickens recites the true case of young mother who was hanged for the theft of loaf of bread.
 Severity of punishment has never pre- vented crime. Those who have made q study of criminology declare that cruel punishments make hardened criminals for the man who is given q harsh sentence for a minor offense feels resentment at the seeming injustice and gets the idea that every mans hand is against him
 In yesterdays issue of the daily papers tnere was an account of the plea of an old convict which saved a young boy It years old from the penitentiary. T am an old convict he said. .I have been to the pen so let me go back there again. It can't hurt me any more than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-30
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ALABAMA POWER co. TO SPEND
 ABOUT A MILLION AT GADSDEN

and meat and milk inspector. A petition was received asking that a patrolman be stationed at the Louisville and Nashville depot at train time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-30
Wool Eponge Dresses $500

This Wool Eponge is the seasons favored wooIen fabric We like the style of these, with open front, silk Persian collar and cuffs silk tie and full length sleeve. All sizes in Copenhagen, Navy, Black, Brown and Ruby.
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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-24
FORGED CHECKS
In EVIDENCE
BANK OF RICHMOND Is VICTIM
Ot' IRREGULARITIES GROWING

r H M o n d, VA.-Special.-
The Virginia Supreme Court of APP
peals has denied the Bank of Rich
mono an appeal in the case of the
supposedly forged checks growing out
or the populations of Frank II. Fitz-
gerald, who was convicted of embez-
element from Kingan * Co, of this
city, and is now serving n term in the
penitentiary.
This suit was first tried in the Law
and Equity Court, where the Judgment
was adverse TO the appellant. Yester-
days action of the appellate tribunal
means that the judgment must stand
1t was contended by the Bank of
Richmond that it was the victim of
a plan to make il pay the face value
OF various checks which had passed
through its hands. but which were
forgeries and which it incidentally
handled in the course of its business
as an innocent party.
The suit was brought in the name
OF the Seaboard National Bank, of
New York, but according to the pc
ution of the appellant. the real liti-
CANT is Kingan x Co, which desires
TO recover money that had been stolen
by Fitzgerald through that firms neg
ligence.
Several complicated questions arose
in connection with the case, which
presents many neat points relative to
negotiable Instruments
In all about $3.50 is involved in this
suit. which is directly attributable to
the Irregularities of Fitzgerald.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-24
STUMP DISTRICT
IN AYERS BEHALF
SECOND DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN
10 HELS GEN. AYERS CANDI-
DACY IN SOUTHWEST VA.
RIG H NJ OND VA crooi,

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Representative Z. Z. Holland of
the second Congressional District. is
among those who have volunteered to
speak IN behalf of Democracy in the
Nlhth District, and the prefer of his
services mas been gladly accepted.
me party authorities have arranged
Tor MIN TO appear there from Octo-
per Esd to October goth inclusive.
ana ne VIII speak every day and night.
AL present Colonel Holland is COW
erlng his own district He is hooked
10 speak twice in Princess Anne conn
~ and once in Southampton comfy
next week, and will end his campair-1
with an address at Boykins, South
anpton county, November 2d.
NH Montague. of this CITY. presi-
uentlal elector of this, the Third Dis
trlct viii speak at Wytheville Octo-
Der list, when he is TO appear on
the platform with the Democratic
congressional nominee, General Rufus
A. Ayers. Senator Swanson is in the
Ninth District this week and is sched-
uied TO make several speeches there
FluVanna is to have a big Demo-
cratic rally at Palmyra on October
ZSth, when the speakers will be Sem
ator Martin, Speaker Byrd AID. Il.
Lindsay Gordon. These distinguished
democrats will ask votes for the ma
uonal nominees Of the party and also
LOT congressman Flood
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-24
CAMERAS IN LAUNDRY
WAGON GOT EVIDENCE


ST. LOUIS Special DR.. Ernest
Henry Cole. capitalist and head of the
Cole Investment Company, defendant
] IN $4,000 alienation suit brought by
his niece-in-law, Mrs. John Jackson
Cole. Monday testified in a deposition
that tor sixty-two days he hid and
watched persons entering a house at
l2IoG Pine Street. He was there with
aides and four cameras, he said, to
photograph and identify If possible.
Amandee Cole, his wealthy brother,
and woman he declared Amandee
used to meet.
he made forty photographs while
hiding in a laundry wagon he hired to
stand near the house. Mrs. Coles at
torney was extremely careful not to
let DR.. Cole explain in detaF the pur-
pose OF his long vigil.
DR.. Cole stated his nephew, John
Jackson Cole had told him that he
suspected his father, Amandee Cole,
was too friendly with 'his (the son's)
wife. John Cole watched with him at
times at the Pine Street house, Dr.
Cole said. Who they saw or photo
graphed was not Brought out.
Once, DR.. Cole said, John Cole asked
him TO accompany him to the Fades
Bridge, where he expected to see his
father, Amandeei Cole. They watched,
the Witness said and saw Mrs. Cole
walk from q restaurant about twenty
feet In front 0f her father-in-sa-y.
Mrs. John Jackson Cole is sizing DR..
Cole for $4,000 on the charge that he
alienated her husbands affections.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-24
RESUME The WORK
OF MAKING BOOZE
FOUR DISTILLERIES START vi, IN
THIS DISTRICT AFTER A
LONG IDLENESS.
r I c H M o N ID, vA-Speciai,

r I c II AZ o N ID, vA-Special-
Although IL looked some months
ago as II there would be an alcoholic
drought in this section on account OF
the closing OF several big distIlleries
In the vicinity OF Richmond. IL now
appears that most of the inactive
plants Will shortly resume operations
some OF them with greatly increased
capacity.
Yesterday the Stony Creek Distilnng
Company, of Henrico county, received
from Collector NJ. X. Lowry the neces-
sary permission TO resume work to-
day. This disullery has been closed
Tor several months in order TO I'M
dergo repairs and additions New
ltermenters have been added and the
plants capacity is now doubled. Tn
other words, it can at present produce
1000 gallons a day.
Three other distlieries. after a long
spell Of idleness, have recently got
back Into the business of manufactur-
ing spirits. These are the Chesterfield
Disulllng Company the Pocahontas
Distilling Company and the Old Do
mlnion Distilling Company. OF the
nfteen grain diStilleries in the district
those mentioned in the foregoing
paragraphs are the only ones operat-
ing at present.
The renewed activities Of the dis
ltsleries, OF course, mean an imme-
date increase in Uncle Sans revenues
which, within the last few months.
had shown a tremendous falling off.
indeed, there were times when the
Dooze-making business hereabouts ap-
peared TO have been utterly PROSTATE.
Ihls, IN some measure, at least, ap-
pears 10 have been due to the activity
OF the Government in prosecuting VIC
iatlons OF the revenue laws.
At any rate Uncle Sam certainly
drew the lines pretty tightly on the
dlsuileries. Seven We're closed by the
revenue department for violations of
the law and two plants were actually
confiscated and sold at auction.
II was whispered in the same con-
nection that the Government had i'm
posed such stringent survey regula-
tons that the distilleries had great diff
ficulty in complying with them. This
report however, was discounted by the
local revenue office.
1t seems pretty generally under
stood that some of the other plants
will shortly resume operations.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-24
MAN AT BEDSIDE,
ACTRESS YELLS
HER REBEL CRY AROUSEs HO-
TEL AND FLEEING INTRUDER
is CAPTURED.

NEW YORK Special Charlotte
Walker, the actress. awoke between s
and o'clock Sunday morning to see
the figure of man near the foot Of
her bed. Miss Walker. who lives in
the Hotel Algonquin, observed at a
glance that the figure was not the
roly-poly form of her husband, Eu-
gene Walter the playwright, who was
asleep in the next room. so she let
loose three yells. According to Miss
walker, they were the real rebel yells.
Nearly every one in the hotel, in the
lroquois Hotel and the City Club. next
door. heard the yells. The intruder
ran TO the window ana the fire escape.
The Walters apartment is on the
seventh floor, and above IL is the suite
of Leo Ditrichstein, the actor. Miss
Walker says Ditrichstein was among
the first to poke his head out of a win
dow. but upon seeing the fugitive
scaling upward toward him, the ac-
tors head disappeared and a window
was closed.
The man climbed into a ninth floor
window and started down the hall
with Mr.. Walter. in blue pajamas:
Colonel William S. Gage. an engineer
or London, in purple polka dotted
nightshirt; a fat bellhop and many
others in ant-Comstock~ costumes in
pursuit.
In jumping from bed, Colonel Gage
had grabbed the first thing he could
lay his han0S On-2- pfpeCase. When
the alleged intruder had been cor
nered the colonel leveled the case and
ordered hands up, which mandate the
fugitive obeyed. He was then march
ed 10 the elevator. placed within and
lowered to the ground floor. There he
was held prisoner, glaring like a Gagged
Camorrist at the crowd in the lobby.
Then police. attracted by the shout
ing, came, unlocked the elevator cage
and sprang upon their prisoner. A
penknlte, pair of binoculars and
some naughty French postals were
the most deadly weapons founo on the
man.
He was taken to the Harlem Police
Court, where Frank Case, proprietor
OF the Algonquin, asked that a charge
OF attempted burglary be brought
against him. But as the man. who
gave his name as Paul Renaud, had
a Key 10 room in the hotel and ap-
parently was a guest there, Magistrate
McQuade said he could not entertain
such charge. Accordingly on the
strength of the pOstals Renaud was
helo in $500 bail for examination to-
DAY. At this time, Miss Walker, who
Is booked to play in Brooklyn this
week. viii appear as a witness.
II robbery was Renauo-s mission.
he was on the right trail, for Miss
walker had tossed her weeks salary
With her jewels on the dresser.
I am not a heroine" the actress
confessed. Il was not even brave.
nor were any of the others. When
l was awakened and saw a man l
just yelled. And I saw my husband
push the bellboy between himself ana
the man." she added.
Renaud, who does not speak Eng
lish, says he is French and that he
has been in America eight days. He
went to the Algonquin Sunday and
looked at several rooms, but COM
planned that the prices were too high
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lack of fundamental, moral and re-
hgious training-a training entirely
unsectarian. Every public school an
the land should have teacher OF
ethics. The fundamentals of morals
and religion may be taught without
sectarian bias. That God is: that de
has revealed Himself; that He is
wise and benevolent; that He is the
Great Force or Power making for
righteousness; that mans duty is to
love God and serve God by keeping
the Ten Commandments. or the moral
law; that whosoever breaks the morA
law must pay the penalty. God or no
Co., and that all the moral law. all
OF Moses and the Prophets is
summed up in the Golden Rule-these
are the fundamental, non-debatable
truths in morals and religion for
everybody everywhere and for al
time. And the place for such instruc-
tlon is In the public school. Some day
the American people will wake up and
insist that II be given there"
Concerning the failure to provide
school facilities for all the children
DR.. Hess said:
The Board OF Education should
rent every available armory. .Shurch.
basement or house that Is suitable for
temporary school room. 1t is false
economy to be parsimOnious in public
education one educated man or Nyo-
MAJ Is greater power in the State
IMAM a dozen uniformed soldiers. Tho
more schools there are the fewer
prisons there Will be. Schools are
cheaper than penitentiaries. 1t is no
new idea that many vices are due TO
intellectual feebleness. Substitute the
book for the beer bottle, the library for
the saloon"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-24
TELLS OF EASY ESCAPE
WITH DECKER WITNESS

NEW YORK Special.-One of the
three men who escaped from the House
OF detention Sunday was captured
Monday. Samuel Kramer. also known
as Max Calm, a much wanted witness
IN the Becker trial, who also gained
his liberty. was not found. Kramer
was IN the nat in which Lefty Louie"
ana "Gyp the Blood" were captured in
iBr9oklyn, and the District Attorney
tL nopeu 10 prove that Kramer was
me man who had rented the fiat where
they were arrested.
No oficiai viii say one word regard
ing the affair. The one man recap
tured is Thomas Weise, a negro. who
was being held in connection with a
cocaine case: He was found in an
apartment at No. 241 West SiXty-first
street, where his appearance had been
awaited by several detectives
Weise says that from the top of the
tWenty-toot wall dividing the recrea-
ton yards some of the men had figured
II would be possible to reach the roof
or the tenement No. 81 Mulberry Street
lie says that on Sunday morning he.
Kramer and william Cleary, a witness
in the Chris Larson murder case. did
not see any guard in the prison yard
An iron door opening upon the base
ment provided a means by which the
men reached the second story barred
windows from which the third story
windows could be reached. The men
then swung themselves to the spik e
covered wall, and thence gained the
roof of the tenement.
From the roof Weise says he and the
others slid dow down a clothes pole;
Cleveland Place. They separated, and
Weise says he had no idea where the
other men may have gone.
1t became known yesterday that a
prisoner, John Clark, escaped from the
West Side Police Court last Thursday,
a few minutes before he was to have
been arraigned before Magistrate
Freschi.
He was charged with stealing $50
from man in saloon on Eighth Ave-
nue., near Forty-third Street He es-
capped on the way from the complaint
room to the magistrates desk while
his guards were busy with other cases.
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WOULD TEACH ETHICS
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

NEW YORK Special The Rev.
DR.. william Milton Hess pastor of the
Trinity Congregational Church, at
Washington Avenue and One Hun
dred and Seventy-sixth Street, in the
Bronx, sharply criticises the Board OF
Education for failing TO provide ade-
quate accomm odation for the $4,000
or 10000 children now on part time
IN that borough and incidentally points
out what he regards as a weakness
in the public school.
THE free church and the free
school and absolute separation of
church and State" he said, ''have
made Us the greatest nation on the
face of the earth. But our public
school system has a weakness in it's
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-24
HOMELESS DOGS IN PACK
ATTACK AND TEAR cow

FERGUS FALLS, MIMI Special
Dogs gathered in a pack exactly like
wolves attacked a COW in a pasture
here. Residents heard the barking OF
the dogs and the believing of the cow
and several got out with guns in the
gray dawn of the morning. They
found that the dogs had driven or
dragged the COW into the river and
were making efforts to tear her to
pieces.
One large bulldog had her by the
neck and others were on her back and
hanging to her TANKS.
The dogs were attacked with shot
guns and rifles and after several of
them had been hit they scattered in all
directions. The COW was gotten out
and it was found that her tail and
both her ears had been torn off, her
throat cut and torn and that she
was lacerated all over the body. She
was fine Jersey and a quiet, inof-
fensive animal, but the dogs, having
collected in pack, would have lit
orally torn her to pieces had not help
arrived.
There were dogs of half a dozen
breeds in the pack.
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WHAT n FIGHT THIS CAT
MUST BE ABLE TO PUT Up

MILWAUKEE, Special - Tommy
Logan, said TO be the greatest won
der in the feline world, is soiourning
IN milwaukee,. Tom has twenty-siX
huge toes and claws.
Tom is some cat, when YOU come to
look him over. T>wenty-six toes is no
small bundle of understanding for any
animal to carry. And some of these
are pretty big ones, more than three
eighthS of an inch across. Thomas is
but twelve months old, and he still
IS adding to the number of his claws.
month ago he increased the count
by one, and many more are expected.
as they are showing signs of sprout-
ing.
Seven Of Toms toes are on each of
the front feet, and six on each of
those in back. TWenty-siX toes give
him heavy-footed appearance that
would at first indicate cIumsiness. but
this is belied by his actions. Tom has
a good record as a mouser, and once
while stopping at Minneapolis cap
tured parrot, left inadvertently at
liberty by his owner.
According 10 Toms master. Jacob
Logan, 3432 Fond du Lac Avenue
Tom was born on a ranch thirty miles
northeast of Minot, n. Oak. His pa
rents were normal size.