The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-03-30
TENNESSEE sTArE NEWS.
wnn Not Par the Reward.

Nashville March 25.-Gov Peter Tur-
ney today refused to pay to I. J.. Craig
the $1,000 reward offered by Gov. Blu
chanan for the capture of d. B. Monroe,
the leader of the mob at Coal Greek. The
Governors reasons for refusing the re-
ward are set forth in the following docu-
ment:
IN Re L. L. Craig-T. l.. Craig makes
application to receive a raward of $4,000
for the arrest of d. B. Monroe, claiming
that he is entitled to it by virtue of
proclamation of Gov. Buchanan of No
vember 2, 1891.
The proclamation is predicated upon the
declara ton that IAN armed mob has over
powered the wardens and guards and set
at liberty State cohvicts confined in the
stockades in Anderson county and burned
private property" and offers a reward of
$5, 600 for the arrest and conviction of
said leader of said mob.
On August %, 1892, Craig captured u.
B. Monroe and delivered him to Briga
dier General S. L. Carnes, taking a re-
ceipt.
In September, 1901. the Legislature
passed an act entitled "An act to invest
the Governor of the State with power to.
repel invasions and suppress instructions,
mobs and other like unlawful assem-
blages"
For these purposes the Governor has
the power and authority to summon to
his aid the sheriff of each county with
suca posse as may be designated in the
summons, or he may call to his aid the
State Guard of Tennessee, known as the
Army of Tennessee. The Governos may
summon both of said forces. If eitheF
or both. are called, they are subject t1
the discipline and shall receive the gay
prescribed by the military law of the
State for those engaged actively in tAat
service tchapter s, acts extra session,
.1S91). A,.s,..
In February, 1892, Craig was sworn
into the militia in Company C, by Lieut.
Fgffe."
In August, 1892, Brigadier General $.
It. Carnes was at Coal Greek in command
of the "Army of Tennessee" having
been sent there for the purpose Of guard
ing the convicts and suppressing the mob
that had liberated prisoners confined in
the stockades in Anderson county in Oc.
tober, 1891, and was then besieging Cosi
Greek. j. B. Monroe was one of that
mob, and perhaps a leader. Craig cap
tured. or. arrested, him. To do this waa
his duty. as soldier, and was directly
within the puryiew of the purpose for
which he, with other soldiers, was sent
there.
The offer of the reward was meant rs
excite the interest and energy of the cih-
zen, and not to-. stimulate the duty and
patriotism of the soldier
The latter enlisted under the statute
already cited, which makes provision for
such compensation and the only com
pensation he is entitled to receive
If~the reward We're payable at oil, IL
should be distributed to the entire com.
nland. as without its presencee Craig, nor
any other man, could have made the ar
rest from the mob with which Monroe
was acting. While Craig is entitled 10
and has the thanks of ali good citizens
for his bravery in a successful effort to
capture a very bad man and consign him
to prison, it is certainly true that his sue
cess is due to the presence of his com
rades-in-arms, who captured many others
and delivered them to the proper author
tiles.
The case is as one with the adjudica-
tiops of the. State holding. that an officer
whose duty it is by virtue of his office to
arrest offenders is not entitled to any re-
ward that may have been offered for
such Offenders. BY parity of reasoning,
the soldier whose duty it is to assist in
suppressing instructions, mobs and other
like unla twful. assemblages, or to repel in
vasions, is not entitled to compensation
for any act he may do in furtherance Of
these objects, beyond that fixed by the
law under which he became a soldier.
The application is refused.
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