Prisioners Listed In The Daily Soliphone
1900's
RECORD WRITTEN BY : TINA EASLEY
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ar/county/greene/
RESEARCHED FROM THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
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THE DAILY SOLIPHONE - SATURDAY , OCTOBER 23, 1909 NO. 323
JOE HILL JAILED
MAN WHO FIRED SHOT THAT STRUCK CHILDREN AT GOLD DUST IS LANDED BEHIND THE BARS
RIPLEY , TENN. OCT. 23 - SHERIFF J.R. PENNINGTON ARRIVED HERE TUESDAY NIGHT WITH THE PRISONER , JOE HILL , WHO WAS ARRESTED AT OSCEOLA, ARKANSAS , SUNDAY BY SHERIFF HALL OF MISSISSIPPI COUNTY AND TURNED HIM OVER TO MEMPHIS AND LODGED HIM IN JAIL . THE PRELIMINARY TRIAL WILL NOT BE HELD UNTIL AFTER FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CONDITION OF THE VICTIM OF THE TROUBLE IN SUNDAY'S SHOOTING AT GOLD DUST.
THURSDAY "DUTCH" HILL , BROTHER OF JOE HILL WAS ARRESTED AT GOLD DUST ON A CHARGE OF BEING AN ACCESSORY TO THE SHOOTING , WAS TRIED BEFORE SQUIRE H.C. DOUGHERTY AND BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT UNDER $1,000 BOND WHICH HE FAILED TO SECURE. HE WAS BROUGHT TO RIPLEY LAST NIGHT AND LODGED IN JAIL.
WILL HILL STILL ANOTHER BROTHER OF THE ALLEGED PARTICIPANTS IN THE SHOOTING. WAS ARRAIGNED IN JUSTICE ANDREW CROCKETT'S COURT HERE THURSDAY ON A WRIT OF LUNACY CHARGE , WAS ADJUDGED INSANE AND SENT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE AT BOLIVAR TODAY.
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THE DAILY SOLIPHONE - SATURDAY , OCTOBER 23, 1909 NO. 323
JOHN SISK LANDED BEHIND BARS
MAN WANTED HERE FOR ROBBERY CAUGHT IN DUNKLIN COUNTY , MO.
CAMP GOES AFTER HIM
THE NOTORIOUS JOHN SISK , WANTED HERE FOR ROBBERY , HAS AT LAST BEEN CAPTURED AND IS NOW LANGUISHING IN JAIL AT KENNETT, MO. PENDING THE ARRIVAL OF REQUISTION PAPERS FROM GOVENOR DONAGHEY ON THE GOVENOR OF MISSOURI .
SISK AND HADEN PACE , WHO WAS CONVICTED AT THE RECENT TERM OF CIRCUIT COURT AND GIVEN A YEAR IN THE PENITENTIARY , ROBBED J.S. BALLINGTON , CITY MARSHAL OF SENATH , MO. OF ABOUT $80 DOLLARS , IN THIS CITY ON MARCH 10, LAST , WHILE BULLINGTON WAS ENROUTE TO TEXAS ON A VISIT. THE BOYS FELL IN WITH BULLINTON BEFORE HE REACHED THE CITY. THEY DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD A LARGE ROLL ON HIS PERSON AND THAT HE WAS DRINKING SOME . THEY STUCK TO HIM LIKE A SICK KITTEN AND SHOVED THE BOOZE AT HIM HARD AND OFTEN . WHEN THEY REACHED PARAGOULD , PACE ACCOMPANIED BULLINGTON TO THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL AND IT IS ALLEGED SISK HID OUT. WHETHER THEY GOT BULLINGTON'S ROLL WHILE THEY WERE ON THE TRAIN OR EXTRACTED IT AFTER THEY LANDED HERE IS NOT KNOWN. AT ANY RATE THE EVIDENCE AT THE PACE TRIAL WAS PRETTY STRONG THAT PACE AND SISK WERE THE BENEFICIARIES OF BULLINGTON'S INTOXICATED CONDITION .
PACE WAS CAPTURED , LANDED IN JAIL ESCAPED WENT TO MISSOURI AND WAS SHOT IN THE HIP BY AN OFFICER IN DUNKLIN IN RECAPTURING HIM.
IN THE MEANTIME SISK MADE HIMSELF SCARCE .
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OCTOBER 21, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
SHERIFF CAMP SCOUTING
SHERIFF BOB CAMP IS ABOUT THE BUSIEST MAN IN THESE DIGGINGS . HIS LIFE IS ON THE GO CONSTANTLY CHASING CRIMINALS AND ROUNDING EM UP FOR THE NEXT TERM OF CIRCUIT COURT WHICH MEETS IN FEBRUARY , 1910. LAST WEEK HE WENT TO JEFFERSON CITY , MO. AND BROUGHT BACK GEORGE PATRICK , WANTED HERE TO ANSWER THE CHARGE OF BREAKING INTO A FREIGHT CARS.
LAST NIGHT HE RETURNED FROM BLODGETT , MO. WITH J.D. HENRY , CHARGED WITH GRAND LARCENY. THIS MORNING HE WENT OUT OVER THE P.S.E. BUT REFUSED TO DISCLOSE OTHER THAN TO SAY HE WAS MAN HUNTING . HE SAYS GREENE COUNTY HAS SEVERAL CITIZENS WHO HAVE WANDERED AWAY FROM THE PARENTAL FIRESIDE AND HE IS OUT TRYING TO INDUCE THEM TO RETURN. HE CARRIES WITH HIM SOME GOOD PERSUADERS IN THE SHAPE OF WARRANTS AND USUALLY INDUCES THE PRODIGALS TO COME BACK.
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WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 6, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
FUTURE LOOKS BAD FOR BOOZE SELLER
TIM COX , IS IN BAD AGAIN AND THE FUTURE LOOKS RATHER DARK FOR HIM. WITH ONE ARM AND ONE LEG GONE HE HAS BEEN A SUBJECT OF MUCH SYMPATHY FROM THE COURTS . BUT HIS PERSISTENCY IN ILLEGALLY DEALINGS IN WHISKEY HAS FINALLY PLACED HIM IN BAD LIGHT WITH HIS FRIENDS . TH COURTS AND EVERYTHING HUMAN . HE WAS CRIPPLED A FEW YEARS AGO IN A ACCIDENT WHILE WORKING AS A BRAKEMAN ON THE P.S.E. AND FOR SEVERAL DAYS HE HOVERED AT DEATHS DOOR. AND HIS LIFE WAS SAVED ONLY THROUGH AMPUTATION OF A BADLY MANGLED ARM AND LEG .
AS SOON AS HE HAD RECOVERED HE UNDERTOOK THE ILLEGAL SALE OF BOOZE BUT WAS CAUGHT AND BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURTS. PUNISHMENT WAS SUSPENDED PENDING HIS GOOD BEHAVIOR , BUT WEEKS BEFORE LAST A BLIND TIGER CONDUCTED BY HIM WAS DISCOVERED. HIS "JOINT" WAS RAIDED AND NO EFFORTS WERE MADE TO BRING HIM BACK TO ANSWER TO THE CHARGE. HIS WIFE WAS IN CHARGE WHE THE JOINT WAS RAIDED AND SHE WAS GIVEN TIME TO LEAVE THE CITY. THIS SHE AGREED TO DO AND JOINED HER HUSBAND AT PIGGOTT.
AT PIGGOTT , TIM AGAIN SIGNED PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WHISKEY DEMON AND IS NOW IN BAD AT THAT PLACE. HE WAS CALLED TO PARAGOULD YESTERDAY TO AN ANSWER TO ESQ. COLE'S COURT AS DEFENDANT IN A SUIT ON A NOTE ENTERED BY THE SECURITY & TRUST COMAPNY . THIS CASE WAS HARDLY FINISHED WHEN A MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM SHERIFF COPELAND OF CLAY COUNTY , BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES HIS ARREST FOR CONDUCTING A BLIND TIGER AT PIGGOTT. OFFICER GEORGE SMITH MADE THE ARREST AND LODGED TIM IN JAIL WHERE HE LANGUISHED LAST NIGHT.
SHERIFF COPELAND WAS AT JONESBORO ON BUSINESS LAST NIGHT AND STATED THAT HE WOULD BE THROUGH THIS MORNING TO GET HIS PRISONER. OFFICERS HAD TIM AT THE TRAIN AND SHERIFF COPELAND WAS ON BOARD , BUT HE AGREED TO LET CHIEF ZEIGLER HOLD THE PRISONER AND TAKE HIM TO HELENA , WHERE HE IS WANTED TO ANSWER IN FEDERAL COURT TO THE VERY SERIOUS CHARGE OF SELLING WHISKEY WITHOUT GOVERMENT LICENSE. THIS ARRANGEMENT WAS MADE IN ORDER TO SAVE TIM'S BONDSMEN WHO PUT UP FOR HIS APPEARANCE IN FEDERAL COURT AND CHIEF ZEIGLER LEFT WITH HIM TODAY FOR THAT PLACE.
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THURSDAY , OCTOBER 14, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
JAIL BREAKER CAUGHT
CORNING , OCT. 14 - WILLWIN BURNS , WHO RAN OVER THE JAILER'S WIFE , KNOCKING HER DOWN AND MAKING A SAFE GET AWAY FROM JAIL HERE SEVERAL DAYS AGO , WAS CAUGHT EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING AT CULAN , MO.(Qulin, Mo.) THE HOME OF HIS WIFE. CONSTABLE SAM ARNOLD AND DEPUTY SHERIFF DAN WALLS THE LATTER ALSO JAILER , WENT UP AND BROUGHT HIM BACK , LODGING HIM IN JAIL HERE AGAIN FOR THE SECOND TIME.
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FRIDAY , OCTOBER 15, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
SHERIFF GOES AFTER WANTED MAN HERE
GEORGE PATRICK , NOW IN MISSOURI PEN , BROKE INTO CARS HERE IN 1905 , BUT ESCAPED FROM JAIL
TERM IN PEN IS OUT TOMORROW
SHERIFF R.L. CAMP LEFT LAST NIGHT FOR JEFFERSON CITY , MO. ARMED WITH REQUISITION PAPERS FOR ONE GEORGE PATRICK , WANTED IN THIS COUNTY FOR BREAKING INTO FREIGHT CARS AND STEALING A QUANITY OF GOODS. PATRICK IS NOW SERVING A TERM IN MISSOURI PENITENTIARY AT JEFFERSON CITY AND WILL BE RELEASED TOMORROW . SHERIFF CAMP WAS NOTIFIED BY THE PENITENTIARY OFFICIALS TO BE ON HAND AT 9 O'CLOCK TOMORROW MORNING IF HE WANTED HIS MAN .
THE CRIME CHARGED AGAINST PATRICK WAS COMMITTED IN PARAGOULD IN 1905. ON REPEATED OCCASIONS THE SEALS ON FREIGHT CARS WERE BROKEN AND FREIGHT STOLEN. ONE NIGHT T.J. RIGGSBEE, WHO WAS THEN CONSTABLE WATCHED THE CARS AND CAUGHT PATRICK IN THE IRON MOUNTAIN FREIGHT CAR PREPARING TO PILFER GOODS. HE WAS IARRESTED AND LODGED IN JAIL . AT THE PRELIMINARY TRIAL HE WAS BOUND OVER TO AWAIT THE ACTION OF THE GRAND JURY. WHILE CONFINED IN THE COUNTY JAIL , WITH SEVERAL OTHER PRISONERS , EFFECTED AN ESCAPE.
HE WAS NEVER HEARD FROM UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO SHERIFF CAMP WAS NOTIFIED THAT HIS MAN WAS SERVING A TERM IN THE MISSOURI PENITENTIARY .
PATRICK WAS A STRANGER HERE AT THE TIME OF HIS ARREST AND NOTHING FURTHER HAS BEEN LEARNED CONCERNING HIM SINCE THAT TIME .
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