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Eulius Sullivan, Who Attempted Tc
Escape Jail Here, Will Serve Sen
tence In Oklahoma.
Deputy Sheriff Smith of Drum
right, Okla., reached Newport Satur
day to take a look at Eulius Sullivan,
a bold, bad Oklahoman, who has stag
ed a reign of terror in the Jackson
county jail for the past two weeks.
Sullivan, the deputy found, is the
man he wants, and after returning
from Memphis tomorrow, where he
went Saturday to spend Sunday and
Monday, he will take Sullivan back to
Drumright, Okla., where he is under
a ten-year sentence for highway rob
bery.
It has developed that Sullivan was
convicted in Oklahoma of highway
robbery, and on the night before he
was to leave for the penitentiary he
sawed his way through the bars of
the county jail. That was in October,
1917. He went to Texas, whej-e he
enlisted in the national guard. All
efforts of Oklahoma authorities to
locate him were in vain.
Two weeks ago Sullivan came to
Swifton from Imboden, where he had
gone to spend a furlough with rela
tives. He proceeded to forge a
check on a man named Nicholson of
Swifton. When he attempted to
cash the check at Swifton, he was ar
rested by Constable Phipps and
brought to Newport.
Since coming to the jail here he
has been a very obstinate and care
free prisoner. Last Tuesday night
he almost escaped by sawing the bars
away, being stopped by Deputy Sher
iff Hogan after he had almost crawl
ed through the opening. He has kept
up an almost incessant harangue in
the prison, being a most undesirable
charge. In the Oklahoma jail, it is
said, he had to be chained to the floor
before being subdued.
He remarked to Sheriff Ivy the
other day that he didn’t have a care in
the world, and his fate was not a
matter of concern to him. “If you’ll
give me a start of ten steps, I’ll let
you shoot at me as many times as
you please,” he said. “I’ve been shot
at lots of times.”
Sullivan is 21 years of age.
RED DROSS DRIVE
UNDERWAY TODAY
Everybody Is Responding To The Call
And Taking Memberships For
The Year In Newport.
The different committees to solicit
memberships for the Red Cross begar
their work in Newport today and il
must be said to the credit of our pa
triotic little city that practically ev
ery person who has been approachec
enrolled his or her name, and manj
subscribed to the Red Cross maga
zine.
The work will be kept up all dur
ing the week. It is the intention oi
the committees to see every person ir
the city who should join the Rec
Cross. If perchance you were unin
tentionally overlooked and not solic
ited, you should report to the Cham
ber of^Commerce and enroll your dol
lar. .
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REHEARINGS IN
HEIN EM ANN CASES
DENIED TODAY
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Dec. 16.— The su
preme court today denied rehearing!
in the cases of S. Heinemann vs
Patti Barfield.
The cases were brought to the su
preme court from Jackson count j
circuit court and grew out of the al
leged poisoning of negroes neai
Newport by flour which was said tc
contain poisoning set out for rats ai
Mr. Heinemann’s store. Judgmen
was given the plaintiffs in the circuii
court, the supreme court upholding
the decision of the lower tribunal.
The defendant was represented bj
Gustave Jones and S. D. Campbell
and the plaintiffs by Claude M. Er
^rr.n and Iru J. Mack.
HIM
ENTERED WAR
President Wilson Tells French Hear
ers Huns Shocked Our Hearts
And Offended Principles.
(By The Associated Press.)
Paris, Dec. 16.—President Wilson,
in an address at the city hall today,
after referring to the sufferings of
the people of France, declared when
the United States entered the war
“they entered it not only because they
were moved by the conviction that
the purposes' of the central empires
were wrong and must be resisted ev
erywhere by men who loved liberty
and right, but also because of illicit
ambitions which they entered and
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were attempting to realize led to !
practices which shocked our hearts as
much as they offended our princi
ples.” ■
DISCHARGED NEGRO
SOLDIER LYNCHED
BY KENTUCKY MOB. j
Hickman, Ky., Dec. 16.— Charles
Lewis, a * discharged negro soldier
who is alleged to have resisted1
I arrest nad badly beat up Sheriff
A1 Thomas when the latter at- j
! tempted to arrest him on a charge of
I highway robbery, was hanged by a |
mob of masked men near Tyler, Ky., !
1 early today. Lewis is said to have
i contended that his Uniform made him
immune from arrest by civil officers.
Jackson County has never fallen ,
behind. Every individual will join |
the Red Cross.
CONSTITUTION IS
HLJMOTEII
Very Little Interest Is Manifested In
Special Election In County Last
Saturday.
Swifton, Tuckerman, Grubbs and
Newport are the only points of the
county that have reported results of
the constitutional election held Sat
urday. The aggregate vote of these
was 127 for and 145 against. It is
belived that in several townships of
the county no election was held. The
city of Newport, it is believed, gave
the constitution a majority, though
exact figures on the vote could not be
obtained.
It appears that the constitution has
been defeated throughout the state.
In Jackson county practically no
interest in the proposition was ever
developed. G. A. Hillhouse and E. L.
Boyce called a meeting of the city
bar association one afternoon for the
purpose of taking steps to campaign
for the constitution in the county,
but the meeting was not attended by
enough attorneys to warrant action
being taken. We believe if the peo
ple of the county had received the
proper encouragement, a big major
ity of vote would have been cast* in
favor .of the measure.
OUR WESTERN UNION
MFSSENGER DRESSES
UP FOR CHRISTMAS.
Taylor Robertson, one of the fin
est messenger boys who ever worked
for the Western Union, has donned a
new uniform and is all dressed up for
the Christmas rush of telegrams.
Taylor had been getting along for^the
past several weeks wi.th a lone regu
lation cap, but now he has everything,
including the brass buttons.
Taylor is a fine little chap, and be
sides carrying messages for the
Western Union he engages in the de
livery of parcels for the public, so if
you want sudden service in the pro
per distribution, of Christmas pack
ages during the holidays, you can do
no better than call Taylor at Phone
No. 71.
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Last Saturday Night.
It has fallen the grievous Jot' of
Newport to again mourn the death
of one of its best loved and most able
citizens. Silas Davies CampboB
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