Both are discharged
Item
- Title
- Both are discharged
- Source
- The Montgomery Advertiser (AL)
- Date
- 8/7/01
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- Image 3 of The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.), August 7, 1901 | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- New charges; court case
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- white alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Trial
- Location
- in state; Birmingham, AL
- Length of story
- 196
- Description
- Birmingham, Aug. 8.—(Special.)—A. J. Sumner and George Bullard, the men who were held charged with the murder of H. C. Newell, whose body was found lying beside the tracks of the Birmingham Mineral Railroad near Reeders, a few weeks ago, were given a preliminary trial before Justice William Jack- son In Bessemer, and were discharged. They were hold, however, in the sum of $300 each on the charge of larceny from the person. Newell, so It is stated, went to Bessemer from his home at Milldale to see his mother. He had about $100 with him. He fell In with Bullard and Sumner and several other men and spent the greater part of the day in drinking. That night he was murdered in the railroad yards at Bessemer and his mutilated body was found next day about three miles from that city. The theory was that the slayers placed his body across draw heads on a freight train after killing him and that it was in this way the remains were carried out of town. The evidence brought out at the preliminary trial was not strong enough to connect the defendants with the crime.
- Site pages
- Geography of Murder
