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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

judge announced that he would over rule the motion of the defense to ex- c.ude all evidence of the state sep arate and severally on the various counts of the indictment under which
 Lacy was being tried. The defense noted an exception to the courts rul- ing.
 Following the courts decision Solic- itor William T. Seibels of the Mont eomery city court began the argu- ment before the jury.
 "I know you are going to convict this defendant" began solicitor Seibels. His lawyers are relying on technical
 ities, but 1t will not suffice. 'Gentlemen of the jury. why in God s
 name did this defendant come back? Why did he come back when he was
 safe from the hands of the law? Why,
 unless he expected to secure his lib- erty on some technicality of the law?
 Where is the s72OO0 he stole? There Is not one particle of evidence that
 ne has made restitution of single
 dime. For all We know he has it salt
 ed away, and some day, when he se- cures his release from the penitentiary, he will enjoy the fruits of his theft" Solicitor Seibels 'dwelt at length on Lacy's operations in the convict depart
 ment, stating that the defendant had be-
 gun to steal shortly after he began his l S72,0O0 transaction, the solicitor related detail after detail, describing the wooden boX-'the most famous box in the his tory of the state'-and telling of his ride | in an automobile around the city. Time to Throw Off Technicalities The solicitor, in referring to the efforts of the defense, declared it was time to throw off techncalities, maintaining that 1 it would be disgrace to the entire state if he were not convicted Closing his able argument Solicitor Seibels maintained that the whole of Lacys transaction was ! a plain case of stealing, ard asked that he be convicted.
 w. w. Hill, who made the opening speech for the defense asked for the
 general affirmative charge on each count separately and severally. There were 10 grounds on which the defense asked for the affirmative charge. being based on all the grounds assigned in the demurrer on { grounds assigned in the motion to | exclude, on the ground that the owner- ship of the property alleged to have been embedded and stolen had not been proved etc.
 MT. Hills argument was based on the theory that the state had not made out it's case; that the state had failed to
 prove the several charges averred in the indictment.
 He made reference to the speech yes .erday afternoon of Captain Frank P. White of Birmingham, attorney for the
 state. When you hear Captain White ad-
 Gress you this morning." said Mir Hill. you will hear one of the ablest addresses
 for the prosecution you ever heard, but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

tending the wrestling match at the Ath- letic club Friday night and on his way out of the building in the huge crowd some one reached over and yanked out the stud from Mir. Stubb's necktie. The crush was so great that though Mir Stubbs felt the tugging at hls tie, he was unable to prevent the robbery or to get after the thief.
 1t was stated that the crowd a the wrestling match proved excellent picking for the pickpockets, as no less than 15 pockets were picked for an aggregate sum of $15O0. The names of the victims can not be made public, as they are on the private file of the detective department.
 J. J. Garrett. a retired attorney who lives on West Twentieth street, reported that while entering the American Trust and Savings bank he had his wallet stolen from his pocket The sum lost by Mir. Garrett was reported at detective headquarters as s750. De-ect1ve' Gold stein is working on this case
 It is also reported that the clerk of a business house. whose name is withheld by the detective department, while en- tering a downtown bank placed a can- vas bag full of silver in his overcoat pocket and also a bank oook in which was a bundle of bills while with both hands he pushed the. bank door open. After the clerk had entered the bank he discovered that his bag or silver and the bank book containing the currency had disappeared. Detectives are investi- gating this case.
 Another heavy pickpocket theft was re- ported at detective Headquarters last week when a well known business was whose name is also withheld, reported that while entering a downtown bank had his pocket picked of S15OO. This man emphatically stated that there was a band of profess sional picl<pockets operating in the city.
 It was stated at detective headquarters that everything was being cone to ar rest the numerous rickpockets who were making Birmingham their winter head quarters and that some arrests were like ly to be made within the next few days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01

don't be lead by flights of oratory."
 Mir. Hi1t spoke for more than an hour his principal theme being that Lacy's guilt had not been proved that the state had failed to sustain single count of the indictment.
 Col. Jesse Stallings of Birmingham, an- other attorney for the defense, followed MT. Hill. Colonel Stellings' address was somewhat similar to that of Mir Hill
 Tho Birmingham attorney told the jury that Lacy had intended taking the money 10 Birmingham for the purpose of meet ing the checks which Lacy had given on two banks of that city for $117000.
 Captain White objected to this state ment on the ground that there was no evidence to show that Lacy had any in- tention of taking the money to Birming- ham.
 Colonel Stalings said 1t was needed there. This remark caused a general laugh in the courtroom.
 Captain White took exception to a re- mark of Colonel Stallings when the lat ter jestingly referred to him as you old Coon.''
 The court reprimanded Colonel Stall lnss for his remark and an apology was made to Captain White.
 Colonel Stallings had not concluded his argument at 1 o'clock and recess was taken until 2:30 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
Afternoon Session


 When court resumed at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon Colonel Stallings continued his speech to the jury. He argued as to the ownership of the money which Lacy is all legged to have embedded. He located the ownership of the property in J. G. Oak ley. stating that Lacy was responsible to Oakley rather than to the state. He said he was so thoroughly convinced himself that he believed he could convince the court.
 He again said the state had not made out case against Lacy.
 Since the state did not make out d proper case" said Colonel Stallings .'it was not incumbent upon the dependant to make any explanation
 Referring to the presence in the court of the governor, the speaker said that when the governor left his private office al the capitol and came to court he came as a private individual
 ''The governor is using all the power of his administration to convict this de- fendant," said Colonel Stallings He has brought here his appointees to testify for the state and when they testified they looked into the face of the governor and realized that he had the power to sweep the bread out of their mouths"
 Captain White Closes
 Capt. Frank s. White of Birmingham. in making the closing speech for the state. said that the case before the jury was the most remarkable he had ever known.
 Why, gentlemen of the jury Judas lscoriot showed more cofnpuncton of con- science than this defendant has mani Tested, for Judas, realizing his guilt did go out and hang himself. Lacy, although realizing his guilt does not show one sign of repentance. He is seeking to gain the liberty on a mere techncality." said Captain White.
 Referring to the defense's attack against the indictment, Captain White said
 Had we indicted Lacy for stealing Oakleys money the great lawyers on the other side would have laughed at us, and said that the defendant should have been indicted for taking the states money"
 Captain White referred to J. G. Oakley as fellow conspirator with Lacy, since Oakley had asked the bank to let Lacy have cash on the checks presented by his chiee clerk.
 The leading attorney for the state drew picture of a dinner party, having as guests Colonel Stalings, MT. Hill and other lawyers on that side '"rhese law yers.' said Captain White, will drink their wine and smoke 9 cents cigars and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
BrOMn Announces Decisi0n

When court resumed this morning Judge Armstead Brown, presiding 2
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

spirited war propaganda and propaganda OF con-
quest The precedents Of history were all one
tale OF the collapse OF civilizations and the DAN
gers OF the time were manifest.
The swftness Of the collapse is represented as
its NEST terrible feature.
"The older civilization rotted and crumbled
down but this civilization OF modern Europe was,
as it were blown up Within the space OF hve
years It was altogether disintegrated and de-
stroyed. Up to the very Of the explosion one
sees a spacious spectacle Of incessant advance,
a worldwide security enormous areas OF highly
organized industry and settled populations gfgan-
tic cities spreading gigantcally, the seas and
oceans dotted with shipping, the land netted with
rails and open ways. Then, suddenly. the German
cannons heard and are In the beginning
of the end!
Already the financial fabric staggered with
those first sounds. With the destruction OF the
American fleet in the North Atlantic and the
smashing conflict which ended the naval existence
of Germany in the North sea, with the burning
and wreckage of billions OF pounds worth of prop
erty in the four cardinal cities of Europe, the
hopeless costliness of war came home for the
first time TO the consciousness Of mankind Credit
went down in a whirl of selling Money vanished,
and, at its disappearance, trade and industry
came to an end. The economic world fell dead.
Wherever there were great populations great
masses found themselves without work. without
money and unable to get food. Famine in
every working class quarter within three weeks
of the beginning of the war. Within a month
there was not city In which ordinary law and
social procedure had not been replaced by some
form OF emergency control And swiftly the
famine spread to the rich"
'The great nations and empires became but
names"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

destruction in which the German artillery marked
its zenith. In no one section of the Ruins OF Ber-
lin or Vienna the ravages OF French Rus
Sian artillery so complete. Inter den Linden. It
is to be noted, crumble6~@s a mass only after the
great thaw of 1890.
Eifel Tower.-Originaly 1t stood upright. Over
thrown in the first German Bombardment OF 1914.
It is constructed entirely Of steel, and contains
2543.659 separate pieces and 9,456S24 rivets. Be
meath 1t flows the Saine with the Trocadero
Marshes inhabited by fishing tribes 60 per cent
OF whose catches claimed by the Republic.
(See Dried Fish)
Salmon began coming up the Seine in the year
1878, shad A. D. 2003. 1t was feared at first that
they might mutually and recprocally extermi-
nate each other but the shoals OF fish proved to
be OF too high an order of intelligence to commit
such a suicidal act
So run certain pages OF the chapter Paris" Of
the Guide to the Ruins Of Europe" which was
prepared to warn the nations against the great
war 1t was not issued in time. The great war
broke out too soon. The brochure foresees
time when gold itself will be worthless in Europe.
"All factories will be closed" its preface runs
"all railroads will stop, all commerce will be par
ayzed, and the countrysides ravaged by war and
neglect, will no longer have food for their own
populations. In the cities piles of ruins decmat-
ed by boInbardments, old men, women and chill
dren will riot in famine. All provisions will be
finally with the armies, and the armies will con-
tinue hghting-to kill each other of and get pos
session of the precious foodstu Is!
Such is the black picture OF the brochure. 1t
quotes freely from THE War in the Air." by H. G..
Wells. published as long ago as 190S-9 In it the
English philosopher brings America into the uni
versal mixup a result of which 'the fine order
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

A Minister'S Wife Writes:

CLoQUEr MNNI have suffered much with irregularities
pain and Inflammation but wonderful medicine Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has made well and
the to all that troubled with these complaints JEN
ME AKERMAN, c/o Rev. X. AKERMAN Cloquet, Minnesota
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16
The New Ianouaue.

Here is our esteemed contemporary
World Speech again celebrating that
accomplished international language,
Ro. which Is easy easy for the Jap
anese. Chinese or Hindus as for the
Latin or Teutonic peoples" No
doubt. and as easy for US as
Japanese, Chinese. Etruscan and
Basque. But listen to a bit Of 70 dis-
logue:
"Gi tada. aci flawT Good morning.
how are youO
"Sito &c. abb lie. (Thank you. am
well)
"Asi we resk abo7 do you un-
derstand meO
We DO not; but apl mugcal hab
awoz mebu7 How many legs has a
lobster?- York Sun.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

TURKISH ARMY RANKS NINETEENTH

Turkeys army and navy are both ranked nine
teenth among the armies and naves of the world.
the Boston Globe remarks. While her army Is
fairly well organized and has strength OF
100000, which is only $4,000 behind that of Great
Britain. her feet is practically non-existent In
fact, until 1910 the sultan had Systematically dis
mantled the navy, for fear that It would turn
against him as IL had turned against his predeces-
sor, Abd.ulAziz.
The peace strength OF Turkeys army is 400 900
men. She is able TO draw upon 100000 reserves,
bringing her war strength up to 100000 The
population OF Turkey is little more than 2500O,-
600. and Of this number fully 1000 600 could be
drawn in case OF necessity.
Before the new regime was inaugurated in 1910,
military service had been obligatory on all Mus
sulmsns, Christians being excluded but under
obligations 20 pay military exoneration tax OF
$3.50 for every 1876 males between the ages OF
fifteen and seventy-fve. Under the new regime.
however. oil "Ottomans" are subject 10 military
service. although under certain conditions excmp-
tlon Is purchasable.
Active service in the Turkish army lasts nine
years or this the soldiers are three or four
years With the colors and the rest OF the time
they reserves. In cases of necessity all males
up to The age OF seventy can be called upon TO
Join the colors.
The navy has been or Tie decline ever since
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16
WHAT HE REALLY DID SAY
Remark Might Almost Be Construed
as q Slur on Most Noble
Profession.

One morning Clifford met his old
friend, Hall. After they had greeted
they did under pretense OF studying
each other. Clifford said:
Say. VIII. l heard today that your
son. Thomas. was an undertaken.
thought you told me he was physi-
clan"
"Oh. no." replied Hall. positively. "I
never told you that"
II don't like to contradict you, old
friend" insisted Clifford. "but. really,
I'm positive you did say So"
mo. you probably misunderstood
me-" explained Hall. II told you he
followed the medical profession. ."-Ex-
change.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

the catastrophe OF Sinope in 1853, when Rus
sian feet practically annihilated the Turkish
wooden vessels The sultan, Abd-ul-Aziz, with
the aid OF British officers, succeeded in creating
an imposing fleet OF ironclads constructed in Eng
lish and French yards. but his successor Abdul
Hamid, pursued settled policy OF reducing the
fleet to impotency. Most OF the ships that were
added were built In American British or Italian
yards
In 1910 Il voted to spend SIS 900 900 in
rehabilitating the navy. The result is that Tur-
key has two modern battleships OF the first
class the Reshad-l-Hamiss and the Reshad W
both with a 29,OO0ton displacement Besides
these she also has one battleship OF the cruiser
type and three battleships OF the older type. She
has two frst-olnss cruisers. two secondclass cruis
ers and one third-cass cruiser The rest OF the
fleet is made up by two gunboats. two monitors
ten destroyers and eight torpedo boats.
The personnel OF the navy formerly drawn
from the army. from 1000 to 5000 joining the
navy each year But under the present regime.
during the reconciliation and reconstruction or
the navy, the draft OF men Is made direct Brit
fish officers were engaged 10 train the men and to
assist I'm the reorganization. The naval force
numbers, officers and men. about thirty thousand
While the uovy is small It's potency Is greatly
increased b. he strategic position OF Turkeys
naval base. Constantinople
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

and welfare OF society crumped like exploded
bladder In five short years the world and the
scope OF human life underwent retrogressive
change as great as that between the age of the
Antonines and the Europe OF the ninth century,
Wells remarkable book makes passonately In
terestng reading at this moment. 1t shows how.
up TO the very beginning of the great war, the
movement Of the world seemed wholly beneficial
to mankind Sustaining and constructive forces
seemed to more than balance the malign drift OF
chance and the natural ignorance of prejudice,
blind passion and wicked self-seeking OF mankind
Men said indeed, that moral organization was not
keeping pace with physical progress but tew at
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

tached any meaning 10 the
phrases. Few realized that
the accidental balance on the
side Of progress was far
slighter and infinitely more
complex and delicate In its
adjustments than the masses
suspected.
"They say their armies
and navies grew larger and
more portentous; some OF
their ironclads, at the least,
cost as much as their whole
annual expenditure upon ad-
vanced education. They ac-
cumulated explosives and
machinery of destruction;
they allowed their national
traditions and jealousies to
pile up; they contemplated
a steady enhancement or
race hostility as the races
drew closer together without
concern or understanding,
and they permitted the
growth in their midst Of evil
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

Not Taking Her From Him.
She---Tm afraid poor papa will miss
me when we are married.
He--Why. is your father going
away?
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

, There are 1.442 pensioners OF the
Mexican war OF 1Si6-S still on the
rolls.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

keeplnu Tn With Lizzie

1T rs the upkeep that makes mar
riage costly"
Unless you have fashionable neigh
bors, In which case 1t is the keep up"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1914-10-16

- UST before the breaking OF the great war
! E: !: = : :: :: : :
| | a brochure calling attention to its dan
| j | gers to European civilization was on the
E---1 point OF appearing simultaneously in all
| y the capitals.
lSI A wealthy peace society, which has the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-20
FOR nEAUTY OF
HER HAIR
Mrs. Esther Emery Hn. Hair Which
Itcnchcs to Nrr knccs. Was Oncc
Threatened With Badness.
Tells UOs. She Made
NGIY NnfY (:raM.

"people say I have tho most heauti-
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don't know about that. but certainly I
am proud of my hair, for it has grown
so in lust twelve short months til now
1t reaches my knees: Last wear 1t was
growing bald. y year g my hair was
thin and scragsly and coming out at
an alarming rate. Little bald spots APP
p"ares gu over my scalp, which was
fury an the time. l cannot tell you
how man, hair tones ! tried to save
my hair and make it grow again. Sone
OF them helped by taking out the dand-
ruff for a while, but 1T came right back
again aud my hair grew thinner than
ever.
"My success is no secret and I think
that any man or woman can do the
severe as I have done. A friend. know
ing my condition. sent me a clipping
from the New York Herald which adj
vised people who were growing bald to
Bay Rum, . o.: Lavona ode Compose,
and II DR.. of Menthol CRYSTALS. got
thee things from my druggist n
mixed them myself. allowed the pre-
using. Then l applied it each night
scalp with the finger tips till the skin
fairly slowed. The results were inn
morning only a few struggling hairs
came away instead OF the handful 1
was accustomed to gather. The dand-
ruff left me this time for good, for I
have never seen a speck on my head
since. In less than n week tiny little
hairs appeared all over my scalp and
these grew SO rapidly tina soon i look
ed like a different oman They have
kept right on growing until they are
as you see them now. A physician has
told me that Lavona contains the pure
juice Of q rare South American shrub
possesses marvellous qualities for
forcing a growth Of hair and certainly
after ms W experience ] ran well he
licvs it.. Did ] use more thar the first
treatment? Oh. certainly 1 am using
il today. I go tn any drug store and
have s OF. put up at a time. 1t lasts
about a month aud costs very little.
LIN no going tn stop anyway until
my hair reaches The door"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-20
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