The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-05
INVESTIGATED TEN
 HOMICIDES IN MAY
Coroner Brasher's Report for Month Contained Forty-Tw0 Deaths.
 All But Seven Negroes

Tn Coroner's Brashers report for the month of May, forty-flve deaths were in vestigated, and but ten homcdes are on the list Many of the deaths were those of infants, and all but seven were ne- groes. The coroner considers this report a most encouraging one, because of the noticeable decrease in deaths. The in vestigations were as follows:
 May 1, Emma Harvey, colored 2226 Ave nue c, city, unknown causes; Velma Jackson, colored, 1909 Avenue B, city, ,spasms; Walter Lane, white, Warrior, railroad accident.
 May 4, Willie Alexander. colored. All ton, homicide: Edgar Brown, colored, 11o2 Thirty-ninth street, city, natural causes.
 mines, homicide.
 May 2, Robbie Lee Green, colored. Ave nue G, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. convulsions.
 May 4, Dick Fields. white Metropolitan hotel heart failure.
 May B. Joe Cooper, colored, 500 South Twentieth street. city, homicide
 May :, Bob Reynolds, colored. No. i2 mine, electrocuted
 May 8, Elizabeth Hunter, colored, In- terurban Heights. dilatation of heart caused by seni1ity and arteno sclerosis. May 10. John Cobb, colored 29o1 Sec ond avenue, city, homicide.
 May z. Ethel Ingram. colored. three miles above New Castle, homicide.
 May il, Sim Ware, colored, Lovick cx- plosion of dynamite: Sammie Williams, coored 625 Weaver street, city, unknown causes: Ed Allen, colored. Lovlck, explo- AIaI IaIo ~fe white, 210 Broad Street. West End, heart failure.
 May 12, Unknown negro infant, female, Thomas. unknown causes.
 May IA, Priscilla Hill, colored, 2205 AL ley B. city, old age.
 May l5, Unknown colored infant, fe- male, Thirteenth street and Avenue c, city, unknown causes.
 May 2, Unknown colored female in- fant, near overhead bridge on the North Ensley car line. unknown causes.
 May 14, Infant of Mamie Bates, color ed, female Avenue c and Thirty-fourth street. city. premature birth; Sallie Ma Son. colored, Warrior, heart failure.
 May 19, Sarlie Mitchell coored, Jett mines, homicide: John Mearet, colored Pratt City, unknown causes; Emma Hill, scolored, Warrior, homicide.
 May 21 Jim Murphy, colored, Forty ninth street and Seventeenth avenue, city, unknown causes.
 May 23. Ella Vernel, colored, 615 South Twenty-fourth street. city. unknown causes; John Jones, colored, Lovick brick yard homicide
 May A Josephine Sylenton, colored, 20f Nineteenth street. Ensley. unknown eau ses.
 May 26. Fannie Rogers, coored, North Birmingham, hemiplegia and seni1ity.
 May 20, Unknown negro man, North Birmingham, homicide.
 May 26, Minnie Ansley, white, four miles below McCalla. suicidal intent.
 May 27 Toney Hollis, colored, drift track. Pratt City, homicide; Calvin Par ter, white, No 1 shaft Pratt City, mine accident; Frank Daugherty, white Eighth avenue and Fourteenth street city electrocuted Accidentally; John Pernell, colored. Littleton unknown eau ses
 May 10. Maude Thomas, coored Twen- tieth street and Second avenue. unknown causes; Mrs. l.. M Stephens. white Boyies, railroad accident
 May 14. William Patrick colored. 1l2f Thirty-seventh street, north, city. hear: failure. May 21, unknown negro infant female Pratt City, unknown causes.
 May 30, Robert Lee Holmes, colored # 1513 Avenue A. city, malnutrtion.