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IAii DELIVERY.
Jfj'rec Prisoners Sav. Their Way Out of
the Cih Prison and Make a Good
Getaway.
Three •).-oners confined in the
county jail awaiting trial, all on
the charto of grand larceny suc
ceeded Sunday night in sawing
their way oot of the prison, and
up to the present have succeeded
in eluding any attempt to learn
the route they took and have
appareo^Lpppnade good their es
cape.
The prisoners were J. H.
O’Herron and J. H. Mulcahey,
white charged with stealing
raincoats from T. B. Stewart.
O’Herron is a one-armed man.
the other prisoner was Fred
Moore, charged with stealing an
overcoat and eight dollars in
money from Bud Reeves. Moore
had been at work for Reeves and
about the time he left the money
and coat were missed, and Reeves,
suspecting that man and proper
ty left together, followed Moore
and caught him and had him ar
rested.
Turnkey Baird says he visited
the jail about 9 o’clock and
everything seemed to be all
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Simmons locked O’Herron and
Mulcahey in their cells for the
night, and placed an insane pris
oner from Yellville, enroute to
the asylum at Little Rock in the
jail, and at this time all seemed
to be as usual.
Some time, however, between
that and morning the locks to
O’Herron and Mulcahey’s cells
were opened rrd a hasp on the
inner door and a chain on the
outer door to the jail were sawed
in two and the three escaped.
A saw broken in three pieces
was left behind, showing with
what the escape was effected.
The lock to the outer door was
not considered very effective, but
the chain was sawed, making it
unnecessary to open the lock.
Since their escape was dis
covered Monday morning, noth
ing has been heard from the
fugitives.
At the time of the jail delivery
the prison was empty of city
prisoners all having worked out
their time, and the last released
on Saturday evening.
1320 Dozen Eggs in one Day.
We noticed that the Imboden
Gazette was boasting of that
, shipping 1100 hundred dozen
eggs in one week. Tnat is
pretty good for Imboden but the
Pocahontas Produce Company oi
this place bought 1320 dozen
eggs in one day and it is counted
a dull day in the egg market
with them if the receipts show
less than 600 dozen per day.
They pay hard cash and big
prices. That is the reason they j
get so many eggs. — Pocahontas
News-Herald.
LEVEE DISTRICT ENJOINED.
Iron Mountain Secures Writ Against
Linwood and Auburn Board.
Pine Bluff. April 22.-Chan-(
cellor J. M. Elliott yesterday:
granted a temporary injunction
in the case of the St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern Railway
Company vs. the Linwood and
Auburn Levee District, in which
the levee district is restrained
from collecting levee tax assessed 1
against the railroad company’s
property. Similar suits havej
been filed in Desha and Lincoln i
counties. The railroad company
claims that the assessment was
illegal, because it was almost
double that of last year, and that
no notice of this increase was
rri \7on TVici rvirrtnnnv is willine'
to pay the amount assessed last
year, but objects to the increase.
The suit involves about $11,000.
Whitecapping Cases Continued.
The Poinsett county whitecap
ping case which is pending in
the United States Supreme Court
was not given a hearing last;
week as expected, but was post
poned for future consideration.!
The defendants W. R. Clampit,1
Wash McKinney and Rufel
Hodges, are under penitentiary
sentence for intimidating negro j
laborers in a mill. Hon. L. C.
Going, counsel for the defense,
will plead the non-jurisdiction of
of the federal courts in interfer
ing with the liberties of citizens
within the jurisdiction of the
state courts.
Woman Seriously Burned.
Mrs. Locke, wife of the fore
man of the Townley Shingle
Mill near Fitzhugh, was serious
ly burned recently bv the break
ing on a hot stove of a bottle of
| turpentine, the flames from
! which set fire to her clothing.
Her condition is serious.
E. LESS, President, ALEX BERGER, Secretary-Treasurer.
The country bank located in a rapidly developing
section, where there is a good demand for money
at 8 and 10 per cent is just as sound as the big city
bank, and can make more profit on a 5 per cent
dollar than Pittsburg and Cleveland can make on
a 4 per cent dollar. And it is in a better position
to explain how it makes its money than the city
i bank is.
The American Trust Company pays 5 per cent
interest on money left for 12 months on amounts
of 8200.00 and upwards. Write for particulars.
Write today.
PICKED UP A MILLION OR SO.
Carpenter Tells Him lit Returned ll to
j Very Busy Man.
Ernest Cha; ,•> carper:-*r.
picked u] > yc-terday t'lernooj. at
Wall and X> \v .-ti- ets a hank
book lost by a messenger of
Wolf Bros. &. Co., bankers and
brokers at 100 Broadway, which
contained a check for i million
dollars and other checks for
amounts aggregating 3-1 million
dollars. All of them were pay
able to the National City bank.
He went to the Mutual Life
building, where he was employed
on work in the Northern Pacific
offices, and asked the railroad
officials what to do with his find.
They pointed out the address on
the bank book, and there the
carpenter went.
“They led me past a lot of
cubby holes into a little room in
the corner,” said Mr. Chapman,
discussing his experience after
ward. “There at the desk sat a
man who didn’t as much as turn
around to look at me. The man
who was with me told him I d
found something.
“Has he got it?” said the man
at the desk, not looking up for a
minute.
“He has,” the other man said,
noticing me pull the book out of
mv Docket.
‘ ‘Give it to me, ’ ’ says the other
man without turning a hair.
And, seeing from the way o.
him he was the goods, turns
over the book.
“ ‘They’re all right,” says he,
acting as if they were of no con
sequence whatever, ‘Here, give
him this.’ And with that he
hands out a ten-dollar bill over
his shoulder and the other man
gets it and gives it to me and
the big man never looks up and
never says ‘Thank you’ or ‘Where
did you find it?’ or anything that
you’d most expect, and I goes
out and goes back to work, won
dering if I want that ten dollar
bill so much after all.”
Chapman’s fellow workers
said he was on the police force
in England once. On Sunday he
sings in the choir of the Rev.
Robert Paddock’s church.
Twenty-Eighth street and Ninth
avenue, and he lives at 319 West
Twenty-sixth street.
At the offices of Wolf Bros. &
Co. it was said that they intended
to use the carpenter politely.
They thought they had recom
pensed him fairly for his trouble
since the checks were worthless
to him.
Judge Rowe Will Contest.
Fort Smith, April 22. —A spec
ial to the Times from Greenwood
states that Judge Rowe intends
to contest the nomination of
Judge Hon of Waldron as circuit
judge of this district in the re
cent Democratic primary, and
will file the papers in tne contest
before Chancellor Bourland, who
will convene the Chancery Court
there Monday.
Fraud and election irregular
ities will be alleged.
Lake Gets Release.
Little Rock, April 21.—Judge
Trieber, in the United States
court yesterday, ordered the re
lease of Id. H. Lake, who has
been confined in jail since Janu
ary 3rd. for contempt of the
federal court in the failure to
pay into court, more than $60,000
in connection with the failure ol
the Alphin-Lake Cotton company,
three years ago.
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