Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-18
WABDY'S. CORPUS.
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The Row Gov. P0rter's ReqHisitisl
r Raised in Missouri. ~

an MemPnln al Last q goo D. no. I |
That the course Of iustices in Missouri IS
!, be admitted by all-whO 7haEs /
paid any attention TO the. case of Waddy
i hompsnn-''General,2 we believe they
call him-aS detailed in the dispatches OF |
the past few days. Here was a man inI !
dfcted by the grand jury Of Shelby county
IN this State, for horse stealing, forgery and
other little ihdiscretlons of that nature, who
had fortified his bail Of 000-''stfaw,1
removed TO Missouri. While
engaged there. in his business as
lessee Of the peniteHtiary, the
Sheriff Of shelby county, armed
with a requisition from the Covert
nor Of Tennessee, arrests him and is about
90 bring him back for trial Thompson
'invokes the aid Of a complainant judge at
Jefferson City, but all the papers are all
regular and hUbeGs corpus will not work,
ON arriving at StgLOuis, Inc again1Sets the
machinery of lawiin motion, md again Obt
, tains writ of kdbeascOTplsS, bat allthebast
legal talent Of that city can accomplish IS
several days, Of Yexatious delay for, The
Sheriff, who sticks to his prisoner with a
grim detetmihation that knows no relent1
nc. lti'retusing 70 order the prisoners
discharge, the court said
-t''Wheil the Governor of Tennessee's
requisiUiOn goes to'another state it must
| eOmmandrespect, except Onthe ground Of
fraud ,r-f .4rs5sf a-u 80 80 s#.-I- 4
90 ut is serious matter to charge fraud!
1t is virtually high treason, The party
daarging fraud against The authorities OF q
State, should have his evidence we'll au1
thenticated. In this case there is no
charge Of fraud, only interlineation.
'Ifthey could prove that Gov. Porter
/ issued this re1uisiOn wlFen there were three
lind ctnIents paHCing instead ofone, the CON :
will grant the amendment. lfthey pTOveth tt
| WaddY Thompson is not indicted as 81
! legged, then the, cOurt. would grant furths {
/ Time; but it don't appear that there is Any
/ defence, 1t would be necessary to bring
| the Governor OF Tennessee, and sufficient
time wouldihave to be given to bring him
| here. Public comfy demands that the
laws Of Tennessee be enforced with proper
dispatch unless there is a fraud
-,.s So far, so good; and Waddy's corpus was
remanded 10 the custody Of the sheriff who
had come after it all the way from 'Eennes-
see 30 l.-I..r Ta-a -
But the corpus was still lively, and there
was to be other eifoIts 10 Wriggle out through
1 the hGjeGS lOOp-hole Ofescape. immediately
after the rebuff above described, Waddy's
i lawyers posted or to [. 5. District Judge
Treat, but be had been informed Of the pre-
| vious refusal and firmly declined % int
feIe. The ~. EouiS Dfpdtci, Of Friday,
tells the rest in this graphic way: 7
II r. safer being refused writ of habeas
eorpos by Judge Treat, yesterday afte1'-
nom, the counsel for Gen. Waddy ThOmp-
son applied to Judge Jones, Of The CTimi-
II nal Court, for 4 writ and obtained one
They then went with an officer TO the, La
II clede Hotel to serle the writ on Sheriff
II Anderson, but found thai he had paid his
bill and left. .s-- ''.
III sWhile they were running about trying
Il TO get a writ of habeas corpus, Sheriff An
deTsOn was making strenuous efforts to re-
4 arrest. Gen. Thompson and get hun OUt OF
Il the city without being discovered by any o.
4 the prisoners friends, knowing thai
this would be all hut impossible
unless assisted by the police, The
sheriff had recourse to q little ruse
He dove up with a carriage 10 the resi-
| tience of Mr.. Geo. II. McNabb, No. Sjig
| Iindell avenue, where Gen. Thompson
was stopping, and invited him to take
carriage ride. The General refused, where
| NAlklIl hloLliA hltlct hANlA AN1uANltA
beth the,SheFif and the General being ar
rested and taken before Chief Harrigan, Al
the -Four Courts.
sThe Chief heard- their stories and then
gave Gen. Thomson into the charge O
Sheriff Anderson, and detailed one Of IN;
own men to assist in holding this prisoner
'sThey first intended 10 take the General
to Memphis, by steamer; and had made ar
raugements with the John A. Scudder' tC
stop last night on hor way 0ut, both AZ The
East s.. Louis elevator and at Ca! Ondelet
1 After consultation with the counsel for the
'pf0secution IN the case, it was deemed IN
safe to risk a trip by river, as all the boats
II stop at Cairo, where another writ Of habea:
liCoTpus or something Of that kind would be
lin waiting for them, 1t was, therefore, de-
llcided to 90 by caffiage to some point on TIT
liIrUn Mountain Railroad aud there take the
lItrain for. Memphis, A carriage was accom-
llIngly procured and the sheriff and his pris-
Homer were driven out of the city on the TOal
Ito Memphis.
II UMeantime, the counsel for defense got
liam linking Of what had happened, and
llwhen Sheriff Anderson drove into Kimms-
llwick, a town about twenty-five miles from
list. Louis on the Iron Mountain railroad,
AtilbrkadA lllbh BN rdll 0ltlECl. I'LL q
Ilfor his arrest on the writ of habeas corpus
lissued by Judge Jones. Both the sheriff
and his prisoner were brought back IN st.
Louis. Gen. Thompson was locked up in
the county Jail aud Sheriff Anderson COM.
manded to appear before Judge Jones, OF
The Criminal Court, ats O'Clock this alter
noon to show cause for retaining Gen.
Thompson IN custody"
II It was Waddyis last play in the game
and he lost. The Sheriff7s hold was too
strong for him aud landed the corpus in
Memphis al last, as announced in dispatch
which we publish this morning. g. U.--
| Waddy's passionate fnndness for staying
away from Memphis at this season is easily
Explained. He Lad forfeited his bail there
and the term Of the court was about tC
close. His object was delay until the ad-
lOlIrnment Of the court, by which he could
secure a continuance until next fall, which
be had no hOpetO obtain by any oil her means.
But the court Thought she knew herself
and kept open for Waddy. His case comes
up tomorrow. .-- -..-.
| The virtues of the ha0eas corpus have
not been unknown to Waddy in times past,
1 and having once enjoyed the benefits of that
| almost Omnipotent writ under desperate
1 circumstances, IL Is not surprising that he
| elung to it so tenaciOusly il the present
4 ease. In 1869 he was arrested in Missouri
| for alleged completely in certain sugar
! kauds in New Orleans. He was placed in
| custody Of the United States Marshal and a
| deputy, who stated with him for
| New Orleans by rail. He managed
/ TO get dispatches TO lawyers in Mem
phis, who procured writ Of habaas
corpus, armed with which they proceeded
to Jackson, accompanied by squad Of
eight Or.ten metropolitan policemen, and
/ intercepted the train. On the arrival OF the
! Marshal with bis prisoner the writ was
| Served, but the former refused to obey it,
and determined to proceed with his man to
! New Orleans. wheTeupon the police squad
| arrested the whole party and took them to
/ Nem2hjs. The case was heard before the
] -. IL, Writ and the rasrrIf noe