Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-18
WADDY THOMPSON.
The Last OF Sheriff AndeTsOB's Troubles
with the st. Louis COuTts-ThOnpsOn
Safe on Tennessee Soil.
His Case TO be Heard Before Judge Flip
pin Tomorrow Morning on the
Subject Of Bail.

Tue wonderful Waddy Thompson has
been well likened to the ITishmsn's lit
tie insect friend" You put your finger
on him aud be is not there" In the
hd6eds corpus lire General Thompson is
aisuccess, and yet can not be said to be
successful Sheriff Anderson went t.
st. Louis to "hsve his carcass" as sam
Weller would Ill il, bat although he got
the custody o. lie general he could not
keep him. He was we'll posted in regard
to such percentages as Thompson, but
not up TO sll his moves. First and
foremost, Waddy was suddenly taken
sick and took to bed, but he most Won
drously recovered when he learned that
writ Of hdbedS corpus had been issued
to bring him into court. Here was q
chance to delay his trip to Memphis,
but
THE best laid schemes o. mice ard men
Gang aft aglee."
Aud so, after one OF the laws peculiar
delays Of two or three days, the prisoner
was remanded back into the custody Of
Sheriff Anderson. Meanwhile, AttOr-
ney- General Luke Z. Wright had gone
to the rescue to st. Louis, and sfCer he
and the sheriff had goiltheir prisoner out
Of the clutches Of the court, they started
twenty miles below st. Louis, while on
their journey south, another Of the
"come.alongs," in the shape Of another
writ, compelled them to retrace their
steps to the culture great city" Judge
Jones, before whom he was brought, st
once declared that the question in re-
gard to the extrsditiOn OF the prisoner
having been decided by a superior court,
he had no jurisdiction, and this time
Thompson was placed
IN PRISON FOR sAFE-KEEPNG
by Sheriff Anderson. Arrangements
were entered into in regard to a special
train to take the parties away a certain
distance from st. Louis before day break,
but the general, finding the game wss
about "plsyed out" and as he was SUI
fering from sickness, agreed to go to
Memphis without further trouble. Tel
egraphic dispatches having been sent
by Sheriff Anderson that he would ar
rive with Thompson via the three
o'clock train on the Louisville, Nash
vile and Great Southern railroad, q
gOodly number of persons were assem-
bled at the depot and the new courthouse
to get good look at
THE INDUSTRIOUS PRISONER.
The train was prompt on time, and
the sheriff and Thompson came up from
the depot in street car to the sheriff .
office, where he became the Conserved
of ell Observers" the crowd fillirg the
office and nearly staring him out Of
cOuntenance. Thompson looked sallOw
and sick, and his cOuntenance had a
wearied expression. He was plainly
dressed in black, and loci @ as il
change of linen and basin nI 90 4 wa
ter would have greatly imp ov e
HIS PERSONAL APPEhH*r
After an interview with his ). ieys,
aud conversation about bali, : leriff
Anderson humanely decided that, as
Thompson was suffering from sickness,
he would allow him to go to the house
of a friend, in the city, IN charge of
Deputy-SheriffP Powell till Monday. At
the opening of the criminal court to-
morrow morning, Thompson will be
brouQht before Judge FlippiD, when, in
all likelihood, the question Of bail will
be discussed.