Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-16
POPS PLUCK.
Sheriff Cannon Returns From Nebraska,
Having Successfully Bagged His
Game After a Fight
or Nearly a Month-After Defeating
Numerous Writs He is Wrecked on
a Railroad Train.

Sheriff Cannon returned yesterda
morning from Omaha, having made one
OF the most remarkable journeys ever at
tempted in an official capacity by any
peace officer of this county. He was
piled with demands for warrants, hdbeas
corpuses and numerous other writs, and
at last wrecked on the rail when coming
home. L.. Reeves and A. p. Turner, quack
doctors, after obtaining money by false
pretenses at GAINESVILLE, came to Men,
phis, where they were captured, but re-
leased by Justice Egnew On their own re-
cognizance at the instance of the attor-
ney-general. They at once left the city,
January ID, going to Little Rock. They
left that place on the 9TH, arrived at st.
Louis on the Sth, and at Omaha, Neb., on
the 10th. Sunday night, January Goth,
Sheriff Cannon, who knew nothing of the
release of the quacks until they were out
of the city, left Memphis for Omaha,
where he arrived on the 22d, capturing
his men the same morning. They de-
manded
A REQUIsITIoN
and were jailed to await its arrival. On
the 2Sth it came and Sheriff Can
o went to Lincoln, where he found
Gov. Dawes, who told him he could not
issue the warrant at once,a s he had prom
ised Cowan, the attorney of the defend
ants, to give him a hearing. At IL o'clock
that night Cowan t~elegraphed the Gov
ernor that he could not come, but it was
late to take the train then and Sheriff
Cannon was obliged to wait until next
morning, when he returned to Omaha.
was warned to get out of town with
his men as soon as possible, and an appli-
cation for a habeds corpus was really made,
but refused by Judge Neville. On the
of the Doth he crossed the river to
Council Bluffs, Ia, and as he could not
make connection with the through train,
his men in the jail there and re-
turned to Omaha for his clothing which
he had left at a laundry. At midnight a
OF bdbeGS corpus wa served on the
taller, and when Sheriff cannon returned
to Council Bluffs that morning he was no.
tilted that the case was set for trial on the
next day, the 30th. 1t was continued until
2 o'clock pm. Wednesday, then to Thurs
day and
STILL AGAIN TO MONDAY,
February 4th, at 10 o'clock. This was be-
fore Judge Aylesworth. At 8 o'clock on
the 4th instant another writ was issued by
Judge Lyman, and that pending before
Judge Aylesworth was dismissed. Both
notices were served at the same time.
Judge Lyman set the case for Friday, the
Sth instant, when it was argued, three
days being consumed in hearing testimony
and motions. On Tuesday, the 18th in
slant, Reeves and Turner sent for Sheriff
Cannon and told him they had decided to
give up the fight and would accompany
him without further resistance. Sheriff
Cannon had determined to have them, no
how the case was decided, all the
officials being fully in sympathy with
him and helping him in every way in
their power. He speaks OF them in the
very warmest terms OF kindness and graft
tude.
Tuesday night Sheriff Cannon left Coun-
ell Bluffs and took the train for Kansas
City. At IL O'Clock Wednesday night
while the train was speeding
o A CURVE,
twenty-five miles this side OF Fort Scott,
he rails, which had just been tried by a
heavy construction train, spread out. The
tender and ~baggage-car sped on
ahead, leaving the coaches humping along
the crOss-ties. Part of them took the
right hand side and the remainder the
left hand side OF the track, thus balancing
each other and preventing a tumble down
4 seven-foot embankment. As it was,
several of the coaches turned over on their
sides. Nobody was hurt except Sheriff
Cannon, who received a bruise on his
hand and on his knee. The rescued pas
were all placed in the baggage
ear and taken to Springfield, at 4 o'clock
Thursday morning. There a train was
made up and arrived at Memphis at 2:30
yesterday morning. Sheriff Can.
non left with his men last night for Clarks-
Vile, determined to deliver them in person
to the authorities there. The
OF HIS TRIP
were not less than $3.50, and it is probable
that the authorities at Clarksville will
show in q substantial manner the apprecia-
lion they have so often expressed of his
1t has shown him to be a man of
indomitable pluck and nerve-but that
has always been known-aud as an officer
Of more than common skill and ability to
execute what he had undertaken. Their
was not only a question of duty,
but one of personal honor, and Sheriff
Cannon has come out of the affair covered
with glory. He was busy all day yester-
day receiving the sincere congratulations
Of his friends. 1t is suspected that Reeves
is the hero of
TIL FOLLOWING ACCOUNT
taken from a Dayton (O.( paper: "a young
last May married a James l.. Ste
a medical man with whom she be-
came acquainted. The lady is the widow
Of 4 man who was well known in Dayton
md Cincinnati, in which cities he was,
prior to his death, connected in the pub
business. She became enamored
OF Stevenson, and went with him to st.
where they were married. She is
well connected and was possessed of some
Her husband travelled through
Indiana, making a speciality OF the treat
ment OF chronic diseases. He never
long in one place, and wherever
met an acquaintance got u of town at
He sailed under various names, one
of which was Joseph S. Lewis, by which
he is known in various cities in In
diana. The bride was made to stand all
the bills, and after her money was gone,
he persuaded her to sell her furniture and
her jewelry, which brought considerable
money. Not long after this-about four
after the ~marriage-he went to
Kentucky, since when his wife
"HAs NoT sEE HIM
nor any of her money. She is now at
in Dayton, and is making her living
in n store. Not a dollar OF all her
possessions has she left. She speaks OF
her husband as a very shrewd and heart
man, and relates incidents of him hav-
ing filed the pulpit one Sunday morning
in a church in Madison, Ind. She saws he
the religious racket to perfection.
even pulling the wool over her eyes, until
her money and valuables were gone. Since
he has left her she claims to have become
acquainted with certain circumstances
which satisfy her that he has played the
same game on other ladies before he met
her. About a month ago a notice of his
death was published, which was sent from
but the lady is satisfied she
possesses positive evidence that he is still
alive and somewhere in Indiana. The
lady told her story, believing it was her