St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-22
One Of Harrison's Appointees
Shocked at the LawlesS-
ness in Texas.
He Wants the Sessions of the
United States Court
Held Elsewhere.
Delegate Henderson's Ex-
uberance Causes a Flutter
Among Pan-Americans.
Corporal Tanner and Blocks
Of Five Dudley Form a
Copartnership.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 81. - Attorney
General Miller has received long
report from Eugene Marshall. United
States attorney for the northern dis
trict of Texas, i'm regard to the diff
Guilty of administering the federal laws
In that. community, in consequence of a
feeling of hostility on the part of
certain state officials towards the
federal officers. According to the
district attorney the trouble arose
from the steps taken by federal officers
for the protection of the four MarlOwe
brothers, who were held as government
witnesses in several pending suits. A
portion of the community became eX-
asperated at these men, he says, and
attempted to wreak summary vengeance
upon them. They were confined in the
Jail at Graham and as that building was
not regarded as secure it was thought
best to take them to safer place.
Guards were provided and they started
away from Graham but had not pro-
ceeded far when they were
ATTACKED BY A MOB,
and fierce fight ensued. Two of the
Marlowes were killed at the first on
slaught. The other two wrested weap-
Ons from their aSsailants, with which
6hCy duuputdtCu Tic ICCb vi tuViI uOdu
brothers to whom they were manacled,
and then fed to neighboring farm
house. where they held the mob at bay
until assistance arrived. Three of the
mob were killed, and number were
wounded. Among those who have since
been indicted for completely in this
attack on government prisoners, the
district attorney says, are two con-
stables, the sheriff, deputy sheriff, the
county attorney, and a son OF the coun-
ty judge. In concluding his report the
district attorney says: 1.-THE law of the
United States cOntempiateS that tue
state will provide suitable Jail for the
use of the courts of the United States.
The state acting through its agency,
the municipal government of Young
county, has failed to do this, but. on the
contrary, its officers are in vio-
court. they aid in escapes, and
are charged with assaulting and MUIR
dering United States prisoners. 1t
seems to ME that our duty Is plain. Ii
Young county will not provide Jail of
stone and mortar, iron and steel. we
must furnish one of flesh and blood,
nerve and sinew. Ii the processes of
the courts of the state are prOStituted
to shield from prosecution those who
defy the laws of the United States,
who. with deadly weapons, prowl in
the night time on the highway and muir
der aDd
MAIN ITS MANACLED PRISONERS
our respect for such process ceases. We
must consider alone the dignity of the
court and the supremacy of the laws of
the United States. do not see, there
fore, how we can well avoid the neces-
sity of armed men at Graham during
the sessions of the United States courts
to assist in the transaction of its
business and preserve the peace.
The atmosphere of the shotgun
and six shooters is not a proper
one for any court to be held in civil
lied country. much less one of the dig
nifty of the court of the United States.
1t is to be hoped. therefore that con-
gress will do something for the relief of
this district by removing the branch of
the federal court at Graham to some
more accessible point which will be
more convenient for the public. in these
days of railways, and where the public
will not be embarrassed and obstructed
by lawlesS element.