The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-22

ture of the assail4nts, and I'll pay my part of the rewtird."
 Sheriff Hartsfield said: "The beat ing of pr. Bowling is the most brutal crime that has been committed since have been in office. Dr. Bowling was doing nothing except trying to enforce the law. We are not going 10 leave a trail unsearched until we catch the guilty party"
 Atrocious Says Bannister
 Reginald Bannister of the Wood ward Iron eompafA said. Tt is the most atrocious thing I have ever heard of in Birmingham. There is hut one opinion expressed that l have heard everywhere in Birmingham"
 Act of LawIessness
 Dr. Guy E. Snavely president of Birmingham Southern college sad, Ut is a rotten act of lawlessness. Such spirit should be wiped out in civilized country. The men, if captured, should be jailed for tne longest term possible"
 Citizens Should Act
 pr. H. s. Ward in speaking of the beating said; T hope that the citizens Of Birmingham will arise and Go, something against the mob spirit that seems to peryade among some of the people. Such a thing as that which happen@d last Wednesday night is savage and cruel as well as law less"
 Resolutions
 The resolution of the First Baptist church Baraca class follows:
 "whereas, as a continuation of the recent attacks of brutal and cow ardly sort made upon citizens and resident of our city and county, Dr. J. B. Bowling, city and county heath officer, was 1ured from his home last Wednesday night, taken into the woods and there flagrantly assaulted and beaten and threatened with death, and
 "Whereas. therefore, there turks in our midst, at present unknown and unapprehended by the officers of the law, these inhuman cravens who dssiminate and practice anarchy, ard
 Whereas, any citizen or person among us stands in great danger Of being the next victim of these en- emies of society, and N "Whereas, it is absolutely neces- sary that these criminals be apprs- hended and severely punished, if law and order are to prevail and our citizens be secure in the enjoyment of life, liberty and prosperity, there fore,
 Be it resolved, by the Cosmopoli- tan Baraca class of the First Baptist church of Birmingham, That we do deplore and severely abhor this atro- cious attack made upon the person Of Dr. Bowling and similar attacks upon others of our citys residents; that Rf fA operate in every way necessary to ferret out these despicable wretches in order that they shall be punished by constituted authority in propor- tion to the enormity of their crime.
 "Done in class assembled with 152 members present, this 21st day of May, 1922
 COSMOPOLITAN BARACA CLASS"
 Another resolution comes from the Perry Bible class of the Eleventh Avenue Methodist church. The reso- lution follows:
 We, the undersigned, under a res- olution of the Eleventh Avenue Meth odist church. south, were appointed as committee to indorse the able. editorial in your Sunday morning is- sue condemning the most outrageous act ever perpetrated in the city of Birmingham, the flogging of our Dr. Bowling.
 We. the Sam Perry Bible class, wish to go on record as condemnins the unlawful acts, which seem to be on the increase, and unless stop is put to same, we cannot tell who will be the next visitor. We therefore call upon all faw-abiding citizens to rise up in their righteous indigns tion and condemn such high h-handed acts of lawlessness, and we call upon the officers of the law to exert to the utmost all the machinefy of the law to bring justice to the perpe- trators of this, the latest most diabol- ical outrage.
 "H. N. URQUHART,
 M. o. TRAVIS.
 EDGAR M. ELLIOTT"