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Show A Onard Charged With Murdar. , Birmingham, Ala., Aug. ?, At the county convict camp nt Vinevillo, seven miles" from this oity, last night, Bill Mooney, a white guard, shot and killed Julia Pearson, a colored female prisoner. pris-oner. Mooney was given n preliminary trial before a county justice and discharged. dis-charged. He swore tho woman attempted at-tempted to escape and attacked him with a butcher knife. Today one of tho convict inspectors went out to the camp to investigate the matter. Ho learned that Mooney brought liquor to the camp and made a number of tha convicts drunk, and drank a quantity of the liquor himself. Then, it is alleged, al-leged, he attempted a criminal assault on tho woman. Julia Pearson. She resisted, re-sisted, aud defended herself with a knife, when Mooney shot her. A warrant war-rant was sworn out this iifternoon, charging Mooney with murder, but ho had skipped out. |