The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-17
|C. M. ALLEN WRITES | SENSAT|ONALLY ON | COR0NER'S REPORT
 Intimates Verdict Is Part of Same Old Fight by i Certain Unions | JU "YMEN SAW FINE CHANGE TO GET EVEN
 Contractor Intimates That Some Sensational Facts May Yet Be Developed in Connection With Wall Disaster

c. NJ. Allen, the well known contractor, in reply to the recent report of a cor oner's jury which mentioned Mr. Allen among others as one responsible for the Steele-Smith wall disaster
 MT. Allen intimates the coroners jury report is the same old fight of certain union representatives against men of Bir- mingham who have refused to submit to their domination.
 Mir. Allen even hints that some real | ly sensational disclosures may yet be | made regarding the falling of the wall His Statement is as follows:
 Referring to MT. George Wards let ter in Sundays Age-Herald regarding the real facts and cause of the report of the coroner's jury on the Steele-Smth wall disaster I feel that every intima- ton made in this letter regarding the am not willing for the writer of same to claim all of the glory to be derived from the opinion of such a man as Sam Teague. when he so far forgets his duty as a juror as to go entirely outside of the real facts and evidence and base his finding according to a sore toe, as it were
 Claims Some of Glory
 Consequently I claim some of the glory CD of being misrepresented by this man Teague, who, it seems, having failed in politics as suggested and in all other decent lines of livelihood, has now be- come a professional coroners juror as I find him less than year ago now on this same coroner's jury, and at which time l paid him my respects through the columns of The Age-Herald and as far as I know this Is the first opportun- ity he has had to knife me in the back since that time.
 However, his effort to shift the re- sponsibility of being willing to publish names in this verdict when confronted by MT. Wards charge is proof positive that he is capable and willing to go 10 almost any depth to further his idea of revenge for some action that does not exist.
 Jacobs on Jury
 Tn my examination before this jury noticed MT. C. o. Jacobs. ex-officer of the Birmingham Bricklayers' union, who signed his name last to the report for various reasons, and you may ina zine my surprise on reading the report of this coroner's jury to find that only four men including myself were blamed with this accident. when 1t Is generally be- lieved that one of Mir. c. o. Jacobs du- ties as leader of the organized building trades is not only to blame. but indict and convict and, If necessary, to destroy all men and their prop erty who do not abide by their unfair methods, and when I recall that at least three men named in this report have consistently refused to be dictated to or intimidated by men repre- sented by MT. c. O. Jacobs. the wonder Is that all contractors and architects and citizens who have decided in the last two years to manage their own business re- gardless of consequences were not also included in this report.
 And when I saw on this jury a man who for more than two years had fought me, both day and night with every un- fair method known at present. and when he had the chance to knife me in the back, the man who had spent thousands of dollars to keep such men as he repre- sents off of his work for the preserva- ton of his family and property, c. O.. Jacobs figured that now was his time. and he could well afford to knife at least fOur or the HleT tndt ndu not diQoO his organization in their unfair fight.
 Jacobs Questioned Witness
 "Mr. Jacobs questioned the witness very closely about the blowing down of this wall but as the questioner he failed to ask about the blowing up of this wall. but the probabilities are that at some flu ture date he will have the opportunity of answering an inquiry as to the prob able blowing up of this same wall. as has been done before in many places to gain unfair and unjust results, and in one case 21 lives were lost, but 1t hap pened to be only eight this time.
 My connection with this building ceased more than two months before the accident to this wall, and during my con nection with the work. I had the place guarded, both day and night, and my opinion is that had the building been continuously guarded for the last two months or more this wall would have been standing today.
 'C. N. ALLYN