The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-30

| treat. The president OF the Newsboys'
Republic, Henry Elbert, has invited all
the adult friends of the boys, especially
the ministers, to be present
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the Forest club, the Undine and others;
| that he had never been arrested or had
any trouble to get into houses; that he
had lost $1100 in two years; that gambling
had ruined his home and his wife had
left him; that he had written a letter
| telling his story to Mr.. Austin.
| CAPTAIN White took witness, who stated
he had never reported these matters to
Chief Bodeker; that he had gone into
gambling house in Memphis after his ex
| perience here; that he remembered no
names of the gamblers in Birmingham
and refused to tell names of his friends
| who went up with MIN; that he had
feared arrest; that he had visited cities
all over the country in last two years
after his home had been broken up try
ing to forget his troubles, staying at each
| place from two days to two or three
weeks, and that gambling was worse in
| birmingham than any other place. To-
ward the conclusion of his testimony the
| witness lost control of himself and cried
like a child. Upon questioning of Judge
| Lane witEess stated he had often been
| run into 1.-The cooler in Birmingham
gambling houses and that he presumed
this was done because the officers were
coming. ,IJl
b. G.. Clayton on Stand
| S. G. Claytor was the next witness,
and stated he was a Southern railway
svitchman; that he mad lost 81 in Dick
Wray's place. to which he had been sent
by a "steerer' named McAdams Cap
| tain White took witness, who stated he
had never told police of this matter.
D. Harrison was called and stated he
| vas a Southern switchman that he had
beer here off and on for u years; that
he had played craps In Dick Wray's
place; that he lost 81 in two shots"
| Captain White took witness, who stated
he did not know the rames of the men
whom he went up with.
Perry Is Examined
r. L. Perry an Alabama Great South
| err extra engineer was examined. and
witness stated he was in gambling
house on Twentieth street which he had
heard was Dick Wray's place, and in a
gambling place over the Best theatre;
that he had lost $35 in Wray's place in
a couple of hours; that he had no trouble
getting in or out; that police had raided
beth places while he was there and every
body went into Coolers" Captain White
took witness, who stated that he had
never reported this matter to any police
man and that he did not remember names
of any person he saw in gambling houses.
Kaufman Describes Tiger
/ G. Z. Kaufman said he had lived here
six years, that there was a blind IT,
ger in his neighborhood at Avenue e
and Eleventh street, that one of his
employees told him he had been buying
a drink in this tiger when the tele-
| phone rang and a warning was given
| that the place was to be raided at
| o'clock; that the negro told witness
this at IL o'clock, that he went at
matter to police headquarters, but
made: that at 2 o'clock two policemen
came and raided the place; that other
men standing near said there was no
use for the policemen to raid the place,
as all the liquors had been moved.
! Captain White took witness, who stated
that he did not tell the two police
men where this liquor had been moved.
| although he could see 1t under a
| house, that he thought of reporting
matter to police headquarters, bua a
policeman named BILL" who lives in
| West End, had told witness there WAS
no use to report, as it would do no
| good, and he did not report it; that he
understood the blind tiger was still
| there, that he had been in a blind til
ger under the Brown Marx building.
| that after the police came out of the
| tiger at Eleventh street and Avenue p
| JneY went past anOlnef Tiger, puI ulu
! not raid it, and one of the crowd stated
| that this place probably had not been
| notified" that this took place in Sep
| tember. 1911. Upon examination wit
ness gave detailed description of the
| policemen
McGill Next Witness
Plainclothesman E. 7. McGill took
the stand and upon examination
of Judge Castor, witness aittated
that upon Jude Lanes orders this and
| other officers raided Clara Spj. eving's
place, that couples were cauf nds mat
! after trial Chief Bodeker told the in t
to raid the place again Aatil splates
tober 1, as he the CHIEF hat
| to this effect from the presi
the commission, that after Oct s
| Bodeker sent witness and Other Jhes
GERS to raid every house in segret erica
| district. Witness stated that he = I
| rested Lee Edmundson at Undine, that
the next day Edmundson threatened
to kill witness, that some other gam
blers called Bodeker, that Eagan and
| Bodeker soon came, that BOdeker took
witness off by himself and told of
how another officer had been killed in
| similar circumstances, that there was
| another man who could watch at I'm
| dine and that he (McGi1D had better
| go somewhere else where he had had
mo trouble and was not in so much
| danger. That he had dispute at the
Undine a few days later. that an hour
/ or two later chief called him to office
| and put him on houses of ill repute be-
cause there We're many of them.
Captain White asked commission to ask
1Gill questions. Captain White took
witness, who stated that after the
+, -s.svf told him about the danger of being
killed. he did not mention or insist on
carrying out Edmundson's arrest; that
the chief told him no officer should try
to arrest man who had threatened
to kill him if there was any other officer
who could arrest the man just as well;
that the chief had never told witness
chief many times gave public instructions
that he had privately given the same
instructions to officers; that Captain
Eagar had told him he should not watch
threats on his life by Edmundson; that
Captain Eagan had never told men to
wink at anything or protect anything or
anybody; that after Bodeker persuaded
him to quit watching at Undine he was
placed on the gambling squad on Twen-
tieth street. where there are lots of
gambling houses; that he worked on the
Twentieth street gambling houses about
ten days; that then he was sent to
I Ensley to work on blind tigers; that one
time Bodeker had called the plain clothes
men into his office and stated that the
witness and his partner were doing more
on blind tigers than all the rest pun to-
gether and wanted to know what was