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REV. B. II. order.

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VESSEL OF BOILING |
M|NCEMEAT BURNS
TWO ENSLEY WOMEN
Were Preparing DeIicacy
for Church Sale When
Accident Occurred-Dr.
]. B. Stage Dead

Mrs. LORNA Leath was seriously burned
about the arms, body and limbs, and
Mrs w. S. Emmals feet and lower limbs
were scalded when a 20-gallon pot of
boiling hot mincemeat emptied upon them
at the Emmal home, 2612 Avenue H, yes
terday afternoon at o'clock.
The handle of the pot broke unexpect-
eddy as the two women attempted to re-
move it from the stove.
Several ladies of the Christian church
were preparing the mincemeat for a
church sale. 1t had just reached the
boiling stage when the attempted removal
was made.
Medical attention was secured, and at
late hour last night both women were
reported to be resting as we'll as could
be expected.
Twenty arrests were made by the police
in Ensley during the last "a hours. Most
of the offenses committed were minor.
Will Davenport, a negro, will be tried
today on a charge of running blind
tiger. Owing 10 the absence from town
yesterday of j. T. Lowery no court was
held.
The Thalian Literary society will hold
meeting in the chapel of the Ensley
High school this afternoon at 2:35 o'clock.
The programme arranged contains two
folk stories. Several papers upon the
origin of folklore will be read.
The funeral services of DR.. j. B. Stage,
one of the pioneer citizens of Pratt City,
who died at his late residence, on Sec
ond street, yesterday morning at 3
o o'clock. will be held from the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, this afternoon
at 3 o'clock. The Rev w. O. Horton
will officiate The Masons will be in
charge of the funeral Burial will be
made in the Fraternal cemetery.
DR.. Stagg is survived by his widow and
three sons, John Bell, Wesley and James.
He had been in i'll health for number
of years, and Wednesday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock suffered a stroke of paralysis
Death followed Thursday morning.
An Englishman has invented a col
lapsible lifeboat with rubber skin
that automatically closes punctures.
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the end that the states counsel was
only able to get a part Of Nails testi-
mony into the record. Nails was very
willing witness, but he never got IL
words away before objections were
voiced by the opposing counsel.
Nails testified that on Thursday
morning, June Is, he was awakened
at abou+4 o'clock and when he went
to the door he saw Overton in be-
draggled condition He was badly cut
and his clothes were all wet. Over
ton told him to call Brooks and that
both should come to his barn. He then
started off
IT called Brooks" said Nails, "and
took a taxi and went to get Brooks,
after which I got in the car of Brooks
and went to Overton's barn. Overton
soon came out of the barn. l asked
Overton what was the mater and he
said he had been assaulted and cut
We then went to Overton's nome,
where / got a sack. We then drove
to house of Brooks, where Overton
got some clean clothes from the sack
and made a change He placed his
OLD clothes in the sack. I washed his
wounds. He had a cut over the left
eye and a knife thrust on the neck
and his hand was cut and some stab
wounds on the breast. We started back
for town and near a negro church in
some underground Overton got out
with the sack 1 again saw Overton
on Friday night and then again on
Saturday morning when he gave me
a key to his desk in my office at the
courthouse"
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SPRAGINS RETURNS

The Overton trial was resumed at 8
o'clock this morning.
Senator Spragins returned to make a
voluntary statement regarding his tes-
timony of the day before. 1t made no
material change in his previous state
ments.
o. B. Laxson, a clerk in the probate
office, was the next witness. He testi-
fed that he saw Judge Lawler standing
In the corridor of the courthouse at
nearly o'clock the night of Wednesday,
June IA, and that Judge Lawler was
standing talking to friends with his
hands at his back. He also testified
that as Judge Lawler stood in that pos
ture Dave Overton came by and thrust
a note in his hands.
Judge LAWYER" said the witness,
''gripped the paper and quickly brought
it up to take a glance at it in his open
hand. He then placed his hand again at
his back and went on talking with his
friends"
On cross-examination, Mr.. Laxson said
that there was no secrecy about the mat
ter, and that the courthouse was about
the most public place in town.
MALLS ON STAND
Charles NJ Nails, former circuit
clerk of Madison county, and jointly
indicted with Overton, was the next wit
ness. Before he testified his attorney,
Judge Zell CASTOR, made a voluntary
statement to the court to the effect that
Nails would tell only the truth. Upon
objection of Judge Alien. the jury was
Instructed to disregard the statement of
Judge CASTOR, which was termed by the
leading counsel for Overton as "a grand
stand play
Solicitor Joseph r. Tate examined
Nails. The examination was made under
difficulties, owing to the repeated OBJ
jections of Judge Allen, who was sus-
tanned consistently by Judge Miller, to
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OyERTON BLOODY

"Did you see Overton at the BARR
said Solicitor Thompson. NO, repteo
the witness. 81 started walking around
the barn, and when I got back saw
Overton getting in my car. He was
bleeding and hurt considerably, L should
judge.
"Overton said: Get me out of town
don't want people to see me all bloody
II drove through several streets at the
directions of Nails, and finally stopped IN
front of a house where Nails got a
towsack. We then started for the
Whitesburg pike. We had puncture,
and stopped to fix it, but Overton again
said: Get me out OF town, I cont want
to be seen all bloody
81 then drove outside the corporate
limits where Z fixed the puncture and
then drove to house 1 keep near the
Whitesburg bridge. We all went in tina
house. Overton sat on the bed and APP
peared to be suffering greatly. He had
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poslte Geraldine Farrar in Carmen" and
Maria Rosa
THE Yellow Pawn" is a play depict
ing artist life in the fashionable Bone
milan set in New York, and deals with
the love affair between the wife Of a
district attorney and famous painter.
Francis X Bushman and Beverly
Bayne begin a return engagement at the
Trianon today. The first performance
begins at $50 this morning, and antici-
pating another attendance breaking rec
ord, the management of the Trianon has
made extraordinary preparations to take
care of the audiences.
The picture will be shown today, sat
urday and Sunday.
Packed houses continue at the Majestic,
where a splendid bill of musical comedy
and special feature pictures are the at
traction.
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Overton stood he could see the east
and southeast gates of the courthouse
Tom Jones, a probate clerk, was
the next witness, and he identified
the knife as that of Judge Lawler
On cross examination he stated that
Judge LAWYER wore glasses only when
reading,
Percy Brooks was the next witness
and he was followed by Emmett Sharp
who admitted that he did "a little OF
everything" Sharp testified that in
passing through the courthouse at
o'clock on the night of June IA he
saw Judge LaLler leaving his private
office.
On cross-examination Sharp testified
that Judge LAWYER appeared In a cheerful
mood, and that he saw nothing unusual
about the courthouse and that the cor.
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who testified to certain facts regarding
the body of Judge Lawler. Upon cross
examination, DR.. Rand stated that II
Judge Lawler was shot and killed first
the wounds on the head would not have
produced much blood.
Throughout the trial today tthe crowd
was such that hundreds stood up. The
percentage of women was still high. The
structures of Judge Miller kept the crowd
in perfect order.
Mrs. William T. Lawler, the widow, was
more composed today and heard the tes-
timony throughout the day calmly. How
ever while DR.. Rand was testifying re-
gardng the wounds on the body she
again cried.
Mrs. Dave Overton sat near her hus-
band and appeared to be unmoyed by the
evidence submitted by the state.
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THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, November 2S.-Forecast for
Alabama- Mississippi: Fair Friday and
Saturday, colder.
Georgia. Fair and colder Friday anc
Saturday.
Florida. Fair Friday and Saturday
somewhat lower temperature.
Tennessee: Fair and colder Friday; Sat
urday fair,
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Error in New Hampshire

Concord, N. H, November 29.-An error
in printing the ballots used in the ma
tional election November was found by
Secretary of State Bean today, but neither
he or any other official was prepared to
say whether the discovery would have
any effect on the vote, which save d
small plurality for President Wilson One
of the democratic electors, Lawrence M
Conner of Manchester, appeared on the
ballots as Lawrence A. Connor."
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HIGH WAGES ARE
KEEPING MEN OUT
OF NAVAL SERVICE
Paymaster General Tells
Committee Why Recruit
ing Is So Slow at
Present Time

Washington, November 23.-High
wages ashore and the increased cost
of living have seriously hampered
navy recruiting, Rear Admiral Nc
Gowan, paymaster general, told the
House naval committee today in eX-
PLANTATION of why there are only about
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AWAKENED BY TELEPHONE

Percy Brooks testified that ne was
awakened by telephone call on Thurs
day morning, June Is, at about O'Clock
1t was Charlie Nails talking. He told
Brooks to get his car and wait by the
gate in front of his house. Nails ar
rived in moment in a taxi, which he
dismissed, and then he boarded the auto
mobile of Brooks, and both started for
Oyartop,s harm
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ALONG MOVIE ROW

Louise Glaum and Howard Hickman,
in Somewhere in France" continue to
draw good attendance at the Triangle.
Today will be the last run Of this pic
ture,
somewhere in France is a picturiza-
ton of the late Richard Harding Davis
story of the same name, and is an
episode of the manipulations of the Ger
man intelligence bureau in the present
European conflict.
"Atta Boys Last Race" with Dorothy
Gfsh. will begin at the Triangle tomor-
row.
In "The yellow Pawn" now showing at
the Strand, Wallace Reid and Cleo
Ridgely again appear as co-stars for the
first time since Wallace Reid played OPP
q. 900 enlisted men in the service, al
+bough Congress has authorized to-
tai strength of 1900. He said it was
hoped that a total strength of 10000
could be reached by the end of 1913
Their inability to send home
enough money to keep those depend
emf upon them is the governing fac
tor in preventing many men from en-
listing said the admiral. From long
experience with the account of blue
Jackets, he said, he was certain
majority had wives, mothers, sisters
or other dependents at home, adding
"-tl1 they are the most generous
and LiS-Learted men that ever lived
We are Just about keeping even In
recruiting now and that condition will
ho high wages
prevail"
Refreshments now average about 80
per cent of the available men and the
percentage steadily is going up;
Representative Kelley, Michigan,
asked if an increased pay scale would
not aid recruiting. The admiral said 1t
undoubtedly would, but that pay was
not the only consideration. He agreed
to submit suggestions as to ways ana
means of speeding up recruiting.
Aside from slow enlistments, the
witness said the navy was feeling dl-
rectly the high cost of living. me
average cost per man per day tor ia
lions in 1916, he said, was 51.o62 cents
but in the last quarter of that year
a figure of 3S.975 cents was recorded,
indicating a heavy advance Tor the
whole of next year.
A letter from Surgeon General Bral-
sted, based on reports of medlcal OF
ficers, was read, asserting that Uni
ted States sailors were the best fed,
best clothed and generally best cared
for men-o-warsmen in the world.
Admiral McGowan's estimates
showed that the navy expected to pay
20 cents gallon for the enormous
amount of gasoline to be consumed IN
its aircraft. motorboats and subma-
rines, the quotation being heaVy
advance over the last previous esti-
mates. 1t was shown also that the
consumption of fuel oil in the navy
probably will reach 6o,0o00OO gallons
in 1918 as against 100000 two years
ago.
Rear Admiral Griffin, chief of the
bureau of steam engineering, Will ap-
pear before the committee tomorrow
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bad cut on one side of the head which
bled a great deal l got some water and
Nails washed his wounds. Overton then
sat: Go to the bridge and see if there
is anything strange about it. l went ard
saw paint bucket and some places
where the bridge had been painted over.
L thought that was strange as the bucket
should have been in the Toulouse under
lock and key; L reported back to Over
ton, and he remarked that it was
Str
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oyERToN's CAPToR ON STAND

Sheriff George C. Pickett of Dekalb
county, Tennessee the captor of Over
ton, was the next witness Sheriff Puck
EFT testified to the capture of Overton on
the afternoon of September rs, about IL
miles north of Smithville, Tenn. He said
that Overton made break to run, upon
which he shot at him and he stopped.
Following the shot Overton was stunned,
but he later attempted to seize the pis-
toll of deputy, but was warned severely.
Constable Fred Terry of Smithville
Tenn, testified to the same facts stated
by Sheriff Pickett.
Pierre Dunnivant was recalled by the
state and he testified that he recalled
distinctly selling Overton a suit of clothes
owing to the fact that special pair of
pants was necessary. The state then an
nounced it rests it's case.
WITNESS FOR DEFENSE
Following a delay of 30 minutes Judge
Allen started the line of direct testimony
for the defense. His first and only wit
ness of the day was DR.. Edgar Rand,
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Local Data
Weather Conditions

Summary of observations made al
United States weather bureau stations
during the "a hours ending at p. m.
18th meridian time, November 20, 1915
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PERCY BROOKS AND
MALLS GO ON STAND
IN OVERTON CASE
Continued from Page one>

close call, and they nearly got me. MY
life depends on you and Nails Keeping
your mouths shut until I get my defense
dyed
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CROSS-EXAMINATION

The cross-examination of Judge Allen,
then began and although severe it did not
change the testimony of the witness. He
merely admitted that he had been rushed
away from Huntsville, presumably to
escape a mob and had been indicted for
the same charge as Overton, and that he
had been in Jail in Birmingham, without
bond since his arrest. He stated that
when he saw Overton he was quite weak
q nd annea red to be suffering greatly.
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TEsTJMONY AS TO KNIFE

r. A. Parsons merchant anu piah'er
testified regarding a knife which he got
from Win eagle a farm employee VIII
eagle testified that he got the knife from
Elijah Wingle LigefWingle testified that
he found the knife sticking in the ground
under the Whitesburg bridge, on the
Sunday following the finding OF Judge
LAWYERS body Ne was shown the Knlie
and he identified it as the one ne iouno.
1t was a small, brown-hanoleo' rusty
knife with two blades.
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AFTERNOON SESSION

p B. Lillard, an abstracter, was the
next witness He identified the knlIe
as the property OF judge Law ~,
he stated he had
known Judge Lawler for IS years and
that few days before Judge Law
Ter was killed he had twitted MIN
about having a dull knife.
NJ S. Bingham, a road supervisor
testified to finding pair OF glasses
near the south gate of the courthouse
on Friday, June To- On cross-eAaiiIha
lion he testified he had heard thai
Judge I.awler had disappeared theh
That closed the morning session.
In the afternoon session Judge ran
cred Belts was the first witness, Judge
Betts testified he saw Dave Overtor
standing on the southeast corner OF
the public square at just o'clock on
the night of June IA. he testltieo
that he recognized Overton ana ina
Overton recognized him. but that mel
Their spoke. On cross aminatlol
Judge Belts stated that from "here
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WITNESS RECEIVED NOTE

Did you receive a note?" questioned
Mr.. Thompson.
Some men brought me a note" said
Mr.. Brooks, which they said Nails had
given them to give to me-
The note was objected to by Judge AL
len, and it was not allowed as evidence.
The contents of the note printed in coarse
characters follow: Things are getting
bad. Everybody there talking. Man who
investigated thinks you had better hide
out. Don't see me. Am watched. Burn
this at once"
Tharn WAS no sipna t1rn q the note.
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REMAINED SEVERAL HOURS

I'VE remained at the house near the
Whitesburg bridge several hours. L am
a deputy sheriff and some one wanted
me TO go and serve a warrant, Nails
refused, saying that 1 had to drive him
back to Huntsville to be at his office by
&c o'clock. Overton had dressed up in new
clothes, and taking the towsacK he and
Nails got in my car and we drove to-
wards town. We stopped near little
mountain where some heavy underground
reaches to the road, and Overton got
cut lie SAID to blow my horn when
drove back and he would come out and
meet me, He took the sack with him.
then drove Nails to his office and at
tended to my private business and started
back. ! blew my horn and Overton came
out of the underground by the side Of
the road. 1t was raining then. He asked
me if there was any excitement in Hunts
Vile. Overton told me to come back and
said if it continued to rain he would be
at Il negro church when l drove back
then drove home. When l came back
OVerton was in the middle of the roAG
waiting for me. l then asked him for an
explanation of his injuries. He said he
was too weak to talk. l brought him
home, and he then wanted to go to the
home of Nails. We went and Mrs. Nails
said her husband had gone to work.
Overton then asked me to drive to the
Meridian pike when he got off after
asking what he owed me. [ told him
nothing. L again asked for an explana-
ton and he replied that he had had a
close call, and 1 would soon hear of a
prominent citizen being missing. He also
said his life depended on me, and Nails
keeping our mouths shut until he had
his defense fixed. He then told me to
drive to the home of Nails and tell him
(Nalls) to come to his barn at once.
did and then went home and stayed
hon
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AS TO OvERToN CONVERSATION

When Nails was finally allowed to
tell what Overton said when he was
asked what was the matter with him
he said: "Overton told me he had
been assaulted and I think he men
toned that some prominent person
would be missing. He said it was "a
serious and an unfortunate affair"
Under cross-examination Nails stuck
to his story and only described the
wounds on Overton with more &C.
curacy.
II. H. Bone was the next witness.
He testified that he went down the
Whitesburg road with posse the Tues
day following the recovery of the
body and in some underground near
a negro church some clothing was
found First, some ashes where fire
had been built and an attempt had
been made to destroy pair of trous-
ers. and short distance away under
some heavy bushes a towsack was
found with a coat. There was blood
on the coat. The witness stated that
Will Jordan took charge of the clothes,
Under cross examination the witness
said that the search was supposedly
under the direction of George H. Bod
eker.
Will Jordan was the next witness He
already has testified twice for the state
Mr.. Jordan remembered about finding
the clothing near a negro church in I'M
dergrowth and rough country Under
cross examination Jordan admitted that
it was dark suit with brownish check,
and that the search was directed by Mr.
Bodeker In rebuttal Mr.. Jordan testi-
fed that he had seen Overton wearing the
suit he found in the woods. In sur-re-
buttal by Judge Allen, the witness stated
that he knew Overton intimately and had
taken particular notice of the suit at a
boarding house where both CHANGED to
eat together and that he had admired
the suit and told Overton of it.
The clothes were then placed in evil
dence
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POLICEMAN TEsTIFIES

John f. Childress police officer, was
the next witness. He identified the
clothes with the knife noles in the coat
and that he had carried them before the
grand jury. Cross examination brought
out nothing new. Pierre Dunnivant, a
clothing salesman, employed by T. T.
Terry, the mayor of Huntsville, was the
next witness. He testified, to having solo
suit to Dave Overton like the one found
in the woods all bloody, in Ocober OF 1914
Cross-examination failed to change this
testimony.
D. S. Blackwell an insurance agent
testified to seeing Overton wearing suit
like the one found in the woods. w. W.
Pitman, merchant of Huntsville testl-
fled to having seen Ovcrton with the dark
check suit on the morning of June IA. ON
cross exa mination he admitted that II
,,rnc a do rl- S1lit of clothes.
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that automatically closes punctures
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