The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-31
ADA AKENNEDYDEN|ES
GUILT At ADMISSION
Woman in Famous Feud
Case Placed on Trial
IS LAST TO BE TRIED
Jeffers Will Have Charge of Parade
Which Will Be Feature of jack
son Trace Observation-Disclosures
wood to Visit Oxford

Admission, October -(Special.)-Ada
case' entered a plea of not guilty when
she was arrafgned before the bar of JUS
tice in the city court of Admission on
Thursday morning on a charge of COM
plicity in the alleged conspiracy to mur-
der Shelf and Sarge Kennedy, who were
shot to death near the Calhoun Etowah
border line.
Ada Kennedy and her aged father, w.
+. Kennedy now confined in the state
penitentiary at Wetumpka, from which
place he escaped a few weeks ago while
acting as trusty, are said to have sided
with DR.. John T. Pearce in the notorious
feud which resulted in the death of her
brother and nephew. She is the last OF
six persons accused in connection with
the case, her father, the son of MT.
Pearce, two teamsters and the doctor
himself having been convicted at previ-
Gus hearings.
Judge Hugh d. Merrill of the circuit
court was presiding in Judge Coleman $
stead when the case was called Thurs
day morning, and there was the usual
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interested onlookers from the neighbor-
hood of the tragedy who have attended
all of the hearings in the case.
Capt. Lamar Jeffers of the Pelham
Guards, Company d, Alabama National
Guard, has been placed in charge of the
parade, which will be a feature OF the
jackson trace celebration and one-hun-
dredth anniversary of the battle OF TAI
lasahatchie in this city on next Monday,
at which time Congressman Underwood
will deliver the principal address.
Captain Jeffers will act as marshal OF
the day and the parade will form at the
Alabama hotel A brass band will lead
the line of march, to be followed by the
mounted police, fire department, boy
scouts, Mr.. and Mrs. Underwood, MRS. w.
w. Whiteside, state chairman of the
jackson trace work; Mrs. Green ana visit
ing officers of the Daughters of the Re
public, followed by the militia companies
of Admission and oxford, the city officials,
Chamber of Commerce and other notables
in automobiles.
Admission militiamen are becoming very
restiVe in default of the pay for their
services in camps last August at East
Lake, and there has been some talk c
taking the matter To the war department,
although Captain Jeffers of the Pelham
Guards, has received letter from Gen.
]. b. Sculy, adjutant general, In which
he states that vouchers are now being
prepared for the men and that they will
be paid as soon as the payrolls can be
gone oyer and audited.
BY invitation of d. r. Murphey, super
intendent of the Admission public schools.
a number of the parents of the city, at
tended the regular weekly teachers meet
ing at the Wilmer avenue public school
Wednesday afternoon. A general confer
ence was held among the teachers and
parents Mr. Murphey particularly i'm
pressed upon the parents to report TO
the teachers any physical defects in their
children as this will bring about an un-
derstanding that will obviate many em-
barrassng situations. A committee to Sc
lect books for parallel reading was APP
pointed.
Congressman Oscar Underwood, who
will be in this city next Monday to speak
before the Daughters of the American
Revlution will make a visit to oxford
while in the Admission district in the in
terest of his campaign for the United
States Senate, and an effort will be made
to get him to deliver an address in that
city According to a special II ON Talla-
dega, MIR. Underwood has also accepted
invitation to speak there next week.