The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-12-05

him 20 come WilkeTsou was willing
to plead guilty TO one charge, but de
nied the other, when the clerk and
deputy sheriff very kindly" aceeeded
TO our propositIon-that if Wilkerson
would plead guilty in one case and We
would pay his fine of ten dollars and
the costs in both eases, we might take
him, he being willing to 90.
Although Gov Phelps would send a
requisition by the following Monday
on Tennessee, yet they claimed, that
having taken the prisoner from US aud
arrested him before we obtained the
requisition on Tennessee, they would
hold hIm in spite Of the requisition.
As the cheapest and quickest way
out, we submitted, and Wilkerson was
taken into court. where he plead gull
ty, was fned ten dollars, to which was
added costs of two cases, making a
total Of fifty dollars aud thirty cents,
which we paid under protest, submit
ting to tie infamous extortion and
blackmail. rather than stay away from
home and contest the matter in the
courts. Upon the payment of the
money We we're allowed to depart, and
we shook the dust of Union City.
Tena, of our feet at $3.50 p m, and
reached home with the prisoner in time
for breakfast Saturday morning.
The conduct Of the Obion county
officials was illegal, oppressive aud un~
just, and Gov. Phelps will demand
repara;iou from the governor Of Ten
nessee, by requiring the return of the
money illegally extorted and the pros
eeudou OF the parties concerned
To bring WIlkerson from Kentucky.
where he was apprehended. to Missou-
ri, where ne had escaped j-il, and
where he was wanted 10 answer the
charge of felony, reqnisition from
the governor of Missouri upon the gov
ernor of Kentucky, aud the latter :
warrant Of eztradiuon hereunder, will
authorize the conveyance Of the pris,
oner through any other State through
which the route necessary to travel
may run
If a defendant, charged with the
commission of felony in Missouri.
fee from justice and take refuge 10
New York, and IS oy requisition de
manded, and the governor of the last
named State Issue his warrant of ex
tradition. the officer named in such
warrant Is authorized 70 convey the
prisoner to Missouri through all the
intervening States
Now is the same not equally true in
our case?
The defendant was found in Jail at
Hickman, KY Il was not proper to
ask for requisi;ion till the prisoner
was identified, aud when the prisoner
desired to 90 at once, and not wait for
requisiiion upon the governor OF
Kentucky, we had, [ believe, the same
legal right TO pass through Tennessee
with hun, without requisifan on
Tennessee, as we would have had TO so
pass through Tennessee with o requi
sition on Kentucky, but not upon
Tennessee.
We didn't believe there was 4 place
in the Union where county officers
would deliberately obstruct and try to
thwart the capture of a horse thief,
oAk lA ltuAiuEu AbA EACA AAt42tArDI
and deputy Sheriff Bennett, of Obion
county, Tennessee, TO set the example
and that 100 by the use Of illegal
means, and when they found that We
we're determined not TO give the thief
up, to extort from US the prisoners
fine and costs for a trivial misdemeauor
under au arrest they made, after the
man was captured by officer Warner,
"well searched, well guarded, and
brought into their town band-eufed,
was the next thing to the meanest kind
of black mailing.
espectfullY,
THOs II MCMULLEN,
Pros Atty Jefferson Co, No.