The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13
BOWMAN APPEARS
TO ANSWER CHARGE
MADE BY TOM LONG
ON PREVIOUS DAY
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system in order to make the men get
clean coal" Task is five tons for first
class convicts, including dockage.
IF a convict Is caught for slate said
the witness lit is taken out of his ex-
ira coal IF they persist in loading
dirty coal, we whip them for it.
An important development in the testl-
mony of Mr.. Dawson was that the state
gets nothing on convicts extra coal
which has been docked. l.. e. Dawson.
warden at Belle Ellen, was next called
to the stand and told OF the system OF
mining at his camp He was asked TO
furnish an inventory of the state.
Speigners Warden Called
The next witness called was w. M.
Coleman, warden at Speigners He said
he has charge of all the conyicts there,
and delivers them to the mill, the dam
and the farm bosses. Mr.. Coleman dld
not recall having said to Tom Long that
the convict system was bad.
Il recall a conversation | had with Mr..
Long in Birmingham" said Witness lie
was mad because he had been turned
down. He said Long had some tomatoes
he wanted to sell to the department. In
the discussion, he said, he told Long that
it was sometimes two or three weeks
before he received an itemized statement
at Speigners of goods shipped there.
Witness could not recall exactly snip
ment of goods from Bernard Steiner 10
Speigners. He remembered the goods
were there His recollection was faint as
to having told Mr.. Frank that any OF
the boxes of goods stored there had been
robbed. He thought he told someone else
about ii.
The goods were received there about the
time he became warden. He was ordered
by Oakley to store them. They were
broken into and robbed and were later
shipped back to the Bernard Frank COM
rany under Oakley's orders.
Witness said that only part of Tom
Longs statement with reference TO con-
yersation with him was true.
j. P. Lapsey, weghman at Flat Top
mines and Warden Mattox of River Fails
we're also examined during the morning
session. The examination. of these wit
nesses was featureless.
Waits Testifies Again
G. o. Waits, president and ]. d. Hen
derson secretary and treasurer. of the
Henderson Lumber company at Sanford.
were witnesses In the convict department
probe this afternoon. President Waits
had previously testified before Examiner
Mccall, but at the request of Tom Long
of Jasper, who testified in the investiga-
It
Messrs. Henderson and Watts were asked
specifically concerning the 5000 transac-
tion, which Mr.. Long had testified had re-
suited in securing the contract for the
company. on basis of s. less than the
state had originally asked.
Jasper Man Suggests Questions
Following the direct examination OF the
two officials of the Henderson Lumber
company. Examiner Mccall produced
letter which had been presented to him
by Mr.. Long, and which contained a num-
Der of questions which had been suggested
by the Jasper man. On direct examina-
tion both witnesses testified that Col p.
G. Bowman had been employed by the
company for the purpose of aiding the
company in securing contract from
James c. Oakley, and to render whatever
other service the company should desire
They declared there was nothing illegal