The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
Blainey c. Burnett's Body Found Near Lumber Yard
 in BeSsemer
DEATH CAUSED BY
 STABBING WOUND
Much Excitement Follows Arrests Because Some of the Boys Are So We'll Known in
 Bessemer

| Bessemer, June 2.-(Special.)-J Bur gin, Jack Montgomery, Osro Craig, c. s. Price, D. Owens and Fred Spencer are 1 being held in the county jail in Birming l ham in connection with the killing of Blainey c. Burnett, special officer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company.
 Burnett's body was found this morning | about 6:30 o'clock near the Central Lum-
 Der company's yard on Fifth avenue, by
 M F. Reynolds, watchman at cross
 ing, with knife wound just below the 1 heart and a small gash in the left side ! of the chin.
 l The arrests of the above mentioned boys caused much excitement in Bessemer this
 morning, owing to the prominence of the | families and all day throngs of men on
 the streets were seen here and there l discussing the matter. Several of the | boys under arrest are recruits of Com | pany D, Fourth infantry Alabama Ma 1 tional Guard, and it was at first thought | that the wound had been inflicted with a l bayonet
 ] Captain Edmundson, of the local com pany, stated that this could not be so as none of the recruits connected with | the murder were in uniforms at the time | and consequently carried no side arms ! Being recruits they had not been issued
 uniforms or military equipment of any
 kind, all equipment being locked in the I armory at 12 o'clock.
 | It is alleged that Officer Burnett and
 his partner, Quarttlebaum, another spe- l cial agent for the railroad company came uptown about 3 o'clock this morn- | ing to get something to eat, and when | they were coming out of the Bright Star | cafe the men in some way became in- | l Montgomery, Price, Spencer and Owens, and the special officers not being con- 1 sidered officers, when off the property of l the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, started to run to avoid trouble when the boys immediately followed the men,
 I In the scuffle Quarttlebaum and Bur- 1 nett were separated, the former going towards Twentieth street, while the latter went north on Nineteenth street. the boys following as far as Fifth avenue, it is stated. Quarttlebaum stated that he looked for his partner, but as he could not find him, just thought he had gone to Birmingham and at 6:30 o'clock this
 morning he came to the city hall to
 notify Chief of Police R. M Childress
 OF the fight and while he was in the
 warden's office the telephone rang and
 the warden was informed that a dead
 man had been found on Fifth avenue near the Central Lumber company MT Quarttlebaum stated that it might be his partner and immediately left the city hall and accompanied Sheriff Thomas J. Batson to the scene, arriving just after
 Deputy Coroner Arthur Jacobs arrived.
 Robbery was not the motive for the crime
 as MT. Burnetts gun, which was .3S-
 calibre Smith & Wesson was in his
 pocket, as was some money.
 The body was removed to the under-t
 taking establishment of Arthur Jacobs,
 where it is being held pending funeral
 arrangements. MT Burnett was about 35
 years of age and is survived by his
 mother and one brother in Birmingham.
 The body will be sent Sunday morning
 at 6:30 o'clock over the Louisville and
 Nashville railroad to Thorsby, where in- torment will be made