The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-29
NEWS
BUDGET OF DAY
State Printing Contract Is
Let-State Convicts Es-
cape From Camp

Montgomery, August 2S.-(specialD
binding board held today in the gov
ernor's office, the contract for public
printing and binding for the next two
years was awarded to the Brown
Printing company of Montgomery. This
concern has held the contract for a
number of years and was the only bid
der.
A small supplemental contract for
office supplies, amounting to about
$50, was awarded to Roberts & Son of
Birmingham The bulk of this con-
tract, however, has been awarded to
Marshall & Bruce of Nashville by the
secretary of state. B. F. Ross of Mont
gomery county obtained the contract
for supplying the state with kindling
wood during the next two years.
The contract for coal has not been
awarded.
Lon Young, a life convict from JEFF
ferson county, and Albert Hensley,
Tuscaloosa county convict, escaped
from Speigners last night by saving
the bars. Both are white men. The
delivery was discovered early this
morning when the rounds of the stock
ade were made and the convict depart
ment was notified.
Dogs were put on the trail and fol-
lowed the scent to a graveyard where
they lost the trail. Young was sent up
for murder, while Hensley was serv
ing a six-year sentence for robbery.
Strained relations existing between
the governor and the attorney gener-
ais department brought no develop
ments today except the service Of for
NAL process on the chief executive by
deputy sheriff this morning in the
mandanus proceedings entered last
week to force the governor to approve
certain expenses incurred in the in
vestigation of the affairs of P. M
Daniel, impeached sheriff of Russell
county. The governor accepted pro-
cess but would venture no statement
as to whether he contemplates COM
plying with the citation from Circuit
Judge Leon McCord requiring him to
appear and show cause on September
why a peremptory writ should not
be granted against him.
meagre message to the convict de-
partment this morning conveyed the
rider of the Alabama Turpentine COM
pany at McPhaul, was slain late Sun
day afternoon by H. N. Dilburn. the
states warden at the camp. Dilburn
is in Jail at Monroeville.
Little information was received here
regarding the killing, but it is thought
that the tragedy was the result of a
personal difficulty, Whisenhant being
shot and mortally wounded. He was
not in the states employ.
r. L. Corbett, state transfer agent,
has been designated temporarily as
warden at the camp pending develop
ments. He and r. w. Solomon, chief
clerk of the convict department, left
here in an automobile this morning for
McPhaul
Virgil Bouldin of Scottsboro has de-
clined the appointment as delegate
from the Alabama State Bar associa-
ton to the American Bar association on
account of engagements in court, and
George w. Jones of Montgomery has
been appointed in his place. The an
nual convention of the American as
ISOLATION begins in Chicago Wednes-
day and continues three days
Already a number of lawyers and
jurists from this section of the state
have left for the convention. They in
clude Associate Justice T. c. McClel-
Ian of the supreme court, Federal
Judge Henry d. Clayton, Attorney
General William L. Martin, Judge Hor-
ace Stringfellow and Gen. r. F. Lyon,
clerk of the supreme court