The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
WOMAN IDENTIFIE IED. IN CHURCH KILLING
Name Of BeSsemer Girl Given As Victim-Winchester Is
 Held Without Bond
TUSCALOOSA BUREAU
 THE AGE-HERALD | Tuscaloosa, Ala. Nov. II ]

Ali Winchester, charged with murder in connection with the find ing of the charred body of young woman who was murdered and her negro church, four miles from this city, on the Watermelon road, was given preliminary hearing Wednes- day before Justice of the Peace J. l.. Foster and bound over to the ac- ton of the next grand jury without bond. The hearing was concluded at 12:30 o'clock but Justice Foster took the cage under advisenent and did not anrfounce his decision until later in the day.
 F, F. windham, attorney for Win chester, stated to an Age-Herald representative Wednesday afternoon that he would take out habeas cor pus proceedings and hoped to have 1t heard by next Monday. In the meantime Winchester will have to remain in jail until further action of the courts.
 Bessemer Woman Named.
 Circuit Solicitor k. l.. Clarkson named Irene Curley of Besseme Ie who was thought to have been thS woman who was murdere and her body burned in the church. She also went by the name of Irene Hughes. It was stated. The announcement of the woman's name was given att the opening of the hearing. Frank Reed of Bessemer stated that the woman asked him for money with which to buy suitcase to come to Tusca- looss.
 The finding Of bar pin in the ashes, and the finding of.a curtain. alleged to have been part of Win chester's car and believed to have had blood on it, were outstanding features of the trial,
 The evidence together with the af hA n missing despite diligent search by the authorities were introduced by the state. Testimony was introduced to show that Winchester left Bir- mingham on the night of October 80 with a woman. Policeman Nose Ashley of Tuscaloosa testified that he was sure Winchester was the man that alighted from the train here with & woman at midnight of the same night and that he carried a suit case. He also stated Win chester got into an automobile with the woman and drove away. AL legged conflicting statements of Win chester were introduced as evidence.
 vester Roster of Northport testi- fled that he came down from Bir- minEham on the night of October 80 with Winchester and that he was with a woman. Lawrence Wells of this city said he was at the A. C.. S. depot when the train arrived and that he saw Winchester with a woman. Coroner s. T. Hardin testi- fled that he was in a barber shop while Winchester was being shaved and hearing that Winchester had come down on the train asked him if he had seen a woman get off of the train here. He stated that Win chester told him a woman about IS years old came down on the same train with him and she had bobbed hair about the color of his own.
 Coroner Hardin testified as to the finding of the body on October 31 in the ruins and that the skull Of the woman had been fractured and it would be impossible for the wound to have been inflicted by falling timber.
 Bloody Curtain Found.
 Sheriff Kyle gave an account of the finding of the curtain in Win 'chester's car at his home November hereing stain, which he believed was blood. Henry Tant, taxicab driver here, stated that he took a man from the midnight train to within 200 yards of the Winchester homo and left him there and that he left early the next morning on the train, Winchester was also seen at the train that morning 1t is said.
 Mrs. Carrie Buttram of Bessemer testified that Irene Curley ate regu- larly at her restaurant but had not been seen since Monday or Tuesday of the week of the murder.
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