The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-08
BESSEMER NEWS

Bessemer. October 7.-(Special) The Bessemer grand jury will recon vene tomorrow morning after a two days recess out of respect for Solie- sitor Ben G. Perry. whose mother, Mrs.
 Annie B, Perry, died Tuesday morning
 after short illness at Lake City. Fla,
 where she has been the guest of her brother, Dr. R. B. Hardness, for the past three months. The remains were brought to Boligee where interment was made. Solicitor and Mrs. Perry accompanied the remains to it's last
 resting place. On account of the delay
 it is probable that the grand jury will
 not finish Investigating the cases be-
 fore sometime next week.
 In the Bessemer city court today a
 verdict for the defendant was returned
 Outlaw ct als The greater part of to-
 day was taken up with the hearing
 of the case of James Wiggins vs. the
 Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company for damages for alleged per-
 sonal injuries There were a number of
 witnesses summoned to testify in the case. Goodwin x Ross represented
 the plaintiff while Percy. Benners X
 Burr of Birmingham represented the defendant company.
 Much interest is being manifested in the rumor that the books of the city are to be audited back for 10 years. It is believed that the rumor started
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 ant of Birmingham, was in Bessemer yesterday and while he was at the city hall stated that he had heard the books of the city were to be audited and
 wished to ascertain something about it. He mentioned the fact that he had an appointment with Solicitor Ben G. Perry for Friday morning and this has given the rumor that the grand jury
 was to make probe of the financial condition of the city and that the books would be audited for 10 years back
 Just why the move has been suggest
 ed is not known as the books have
 been audited every two years by well
 known auditing firms of Birmingham and during that time and all have pro-
 nounced the books correct and well kept
 
 The first football game of the sea- son will be played on the local field Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock when
 the Bessemer High school will meet the fast aggregation from the Ensley High school at Underwood park. The local squad has been put through some hard practice this week and as the team is much stronger than ever before one of the hardest fought games of the ,..
 members of the Bessemer team are
 new men Coach Kuchins feels confi- dent that his aggregation will make a good showing. Miss Louise Hendricks will be sponsor for Bessemer and she will have as her maids Miss Lillian Cahill, Miss Lillian Malone, Miss Nell lie Karr Miss $. E. Hayes. Miss Min nie Jackson, Miss Marguerite Phillips and Miss Alma Scott.
 Deputy Coroner Arthur Jacobs in- vestigated the death of Horace Colly,
 the S-year-ol negro boy who was run over and killed yesterday afternoon by coal wagon belonging to the Besse-
 mer Ice and Coal company, driven by Henry Carnes, a negro. After hearing all of the witnesses and Carnes, it was held that the accident was unavoid : able. The evidence showed that a crowd of children were in the middle
 of the street playing marbles and the
 wagon was coming toward them on
 Carolina avenue between Twenty third
 and Twenty fourth streets when the
 mules became frightened at a switch
 engine and immediately broke into a
 run. Before Carnes could stop the ami
 mals they had run into the crowd of
 boys and the Colly boy was knocked down and run over.
 
 The local Woman's Christian Tenn
 perance union will hold an interesting