The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-12

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saloon and ordered one hundred bottles
of champagne, and after drinking them,
with the assistance of a friend or
two, he went home. Later In the evening
he was engaged in a pleasant conversation
with your correspondent and a few others In
the lobby of the Columbia Hotel, when he
was approached by another mild hammered
man named Hendricks, who said he wanted
him. General Harry G. Worthington was also
"wanted" at about the same moment by
another Chesterfield named Hernandez. They
were, however, not to be disconnected by any
such little Incidents as these, and the gallant
| colonel was heard to remark that he was get
| ting used TO being arrested, and he didn't
| mind it a bit, as far as he'd got. To the mild
| hammered man named Hendricks he merely
| said he would accept his invitation with pleas
| ure If he would allow him 10 step up stairs and
get a habeas corpus or two to have IN hls
pocketin case Of accident. Captain Hendricks
being thus thrown off his guard, the colonel
stepped into the barroom and ordered one
hundred bottles of champagne, and alter
drinking them, with the assistance Of friend
or two, he went up stairs to room No. 80, and
| ordered a small assortment OF Writs
of hebeas corpus. Having attended
to these little p~reliminaries, he re-
turned and announced himself ready to
he arrested. A considerable crowd had gath
cred by this time. and a sort of procession
was formed to go from the Columbia Hotel to
the office of Trial Justice Kirk. The process
sion consisted, Ia part, OF the two chie1
mourners, Messrs. Patterson and Worthing-
ton, attended by Special Constables Hendricks
and Hernandez as q guard of honor; Attor-
ney-Geueral Chamberlain, Colonel Thomas j.
Steers, Solicitor P. L. Virgins, Major Louis 3.
johnson, Mr.. WIN. Etter, clerk OF the House
of Representatives, Representatives. Greene,
Hurley, Brennan aad Artson, OF Charles
ton, Sherifs Mackey and Bowen, Mr.. Ztm-
norman Moses. Detective Koch. the proprie-
tors of all the Columbia papers, and the repre-.
sentalives of the State press, and an indls-
eliminate crowd OF the local OF potoi. Having
arrived at the Office Of the experimental jus
tIce. however, 1t was found to be closed, and
Colonel Patterson began to deelalm Vehe-
mently. against this lnhcspitality on the part
of MIR. Kirk, He said he didn't 80 much mind
being captured; In fact, he was getting so that
be rather liked 1t, but he did think that he
ought to be treated with the honors OF war, and
he would like to be shown to some place
where he could do a little more GUSHING. In
this j~uncturs Captain Hendricks came to the
rescue, and told the colonel that ne thought
he could accommodate him with a resting
place, at least for the night, lnasmuch as ne
had In his possession an order to commit him
to the county Jail for twelve hours for con-
tempt of court. This was apparently news 10
Colonel Patterson, but after an inspection OF
the commitment by the light of a convenient
street lamp, he kindly consented to go TO The
county jail. TIE procession accordingly re-
formed, and proceeded through a variety OF
streets and highways to the gloomy old build
ing on the edge of the city, which is known as
the Rlchland County jail. The crowd, IN the
meantime, had by no means diminished, and
when 1t filed into the jail-yard and surrounded
the door, demanding admittance, 1t Is not to
be wondered at that the 1ailor, cautiously
peerlng out of an upper window, was In
clined to read the riot act instead of opening
his doors. He was finally persuaded, however.
that it was not q Ku-Klux Klan assembled TO
demand the Liberation Of the United States
prisoners, and he accordingly came dow and
|. threw open the heavy doors Of the jail to
admit the procession. The distinguished prls-
ouer was then formally handed over TO the
custody of the jallor by Captain Hendricks
upon the commitment of Trial Justice Kirk,
and the procession was about to reform and
return, when there suddenly appeared upon
the scene q brsathless messenger from his
| Honor Judge T. j. Msckey, with a writ of
hateas corpus demanding the body OF one
| John J. Patterson, ''said to be detained In
| custody In the jail of Rlchland County" &C.,
| DC. This document being served upon the
Tailor, he concluded that he had no further
| claims of hospitality upon his guest, and OF.
fered no obstacle to his departure. The prls-
| oner accordingly departed, this time In Gus
| tody Of the GREATNESS messenger, Mr.. Can
| ton, who had been sworn in as q special az
sistant deputy lieutenant constable for the &C.
| CANON, and who had accomplished the distance
from Judge Mackey's ''chambers" at the Co.
lumbla Hotel to the Rlchland County jail In tour
| minutes and one-half by a stop watch. The
procession then started for those "chambers"
of Judge Mackey's where the writ of habeas
| CORPUS had been made returnable, and finally
| found them In q room over the Carolina
| National Bank on Richardson street. Here
! Judge Mackey was found to be seated in state,
and prepared to hold court upon any subject
| from q full aedged Ku-Klux down through the
various grades of crimlnality, even to a Unlted
| States senator. Here the prisoner was duly
arraigned, and, as o courteous preliminary to
| his trial for contempt of Trial Justice Kirk, a
| notice was sent to that official TO the effect
| that the writ OF habess corpus had been made
| returnable at ten o'clock this evening, to the
! end that he might, If he desired, attend and
| show cause why the petitioner should not be
released. This notice was placed in the hands
of the same swift-footed Mercury who had
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