The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-04
 CHARGE IS CHANGED AGAINST ]. |. HURD In Jail Is Days Waiting
 Return of Check
 WARRANT IS ISSUED Ch;af Earo. An~oru~os That Five
Chief Eagan Announces That Five Detectives Were Not Suspended as Satisfactory Explana-
 tions Had Been Made
By RICHARD F. LusslER

Joun (. fturQ, WltH d shdees ehiSc- weeks growth of beard and weak from illness, was rushed from the city jail to the county jail at S:30 o'clock yesterday morning on warrant sworn out few minutes previous by Detective Enoch H Warren before Judge H. B. Abernathy, alleging obtaining money under false pre- lenses.
 The haste of the officers in swearing out the warrant and the quick transfer to the county jail was due to the publica- tion in yesterday mornings Age Herald that five detectives had been suspended for keeping J. c. Hurd in the city jail IS days without due process of law.
 Following the transfer to the county jail it was announced that the five de- tectives had explained to the satisfaction of Chief Martin Eagan about the deten- tion of Hurd in the city bastile and no one was suspended. Chief Eagan said:
 "Wednesday night when I heard that this man Hurd was still in the city jail and that no warrant had been sworn out was very angry, and informed Detec- tives Daly. Goldstein. Williams. Macke and Warren that I would recommend
 
 Commissioner A. o. Lane in the morning, and that they could consider themselves suspended from that moment.
 This morning, however, the whole af- fair was explained in that Hurd was kept in jail awaiting the return of an al- legged forged check from Port Arthur, Tex. This check was returned Wednesday and Detectives Warren and Williams assert ed that they had attempted to swear out warrants, but were unable to see Judge Abernathy. Following this explanation I decided not to recommend the suspen- sion from duty of the five men concerned in the Hurd affair."
 One fact that is not denied is that John c. Hurd was arrested on Sunday after noon, November IA. by Detectives R. G. Williams and Franke C. Macke and placed in the city jail on charge of forgery.
 Passing of Cheek
 The alleged forgery was of a check on the Merchants bank of Port Arthur Tex, for the sum of s25. and which was pre- scented to Antwine, Mcclure DeShazo, in payment for a $2 suit of underclothes by Hurd. and 1t is further alleged that Hurd received s23 in cash in change. The police were called into the case on Saturday, November 13, and Detectives Daly and Goldstein failed to locate Hurd at his room, 1610 Sixth avenue, north A report was made as is customary in such affairs and all the detectives were re- Quested to arrest Hurd on sight It so happened that 8 tip was received the following afternoon and Detectives Will Hams and Macke arrested Hurd on Fourth avenue between Seventeenth and Eigh- teenth streets, north.
 A search of the room occupied by Hurd revealed a small printing outfit in a cardboard box, which can be purchased for 10 cents an dthe officers alleged that Hurd used this rubber type to make a l stamp to certify checks he intended to pass on credulous merchants.
 However, the detectives realized that no l forgery or false pretenses had been proved on Hurd, by the mere presenta- | tion of check at Antwine, Mcclure & DeShazo's, therefore that firm was ad- vsed to send the check through the clear I ing house. In the meanwhile Hurd re- mained i'll in the city jail
 l Wednesday afternoon the check re- turned from Port Arthur, Tex, marked mo account" and also that the certifi- cation of the check was a forgery. It was then sought to swear out warrant | charging forgery but Judge Abernethy maintained that the president or cashier of the bank at Port Arthur, Tex, would have to come to Birmingham and swear out that warrant. However not to be | baked, the detectives immediately decid- l ed to swear out warrant charging ob- taining money under false pretenses in connection with the check given Antwine, Mcclure DeShazo for $25 and for which Hurd is alleged to have received $2S in cash and g in merchandise
 Hurd Talks of Charge At the county jail yesterday afternoon John Hurd. pallid and unkept from his lengthy Jail stay. stated to reporters:
 II have no money and therefore I am in jail. And I rather think they will manage to keep me in here for some time for I have no friends or influence Ito come to my aid.
 "I came to Birmingham four days be- l fore was arrested from St. Paul, Minn., | to look for work. I am an electrician I was arrested and g in cash which l I had at the time was taken from me | as evidence That g Is still being held as evidence Lots of times during the 19 days that was kept in that swill hole they call a jail wanted a nickel or a l dime to buy cup of coffee or milk but the answer was always given me that my money was being held as evidence One time I guess was so sick the warden took pity on me and offered me nickel from his own pocket. The city physician was very kind.
 But say, I don't know much about law, but isn't it my right to have a trial
 within a reasonable time? Did the offi-