The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-24
Is In JAIL AGAIN
CHIEF MASSEY WAS IN TWO PLACES
AT THE SAME TINE
He was Legally in the County JAN and at
the Same Time Half Mile Distant on
Douglas Avenue-BHl Campbell Says it
is a scheme to Bring About Reciprocity
Constable Tom yoss Can Not Tell a
Lie and Gives the Snap Away-Justicc
Jones Looks Wise aud Does Not Know
Supreme Court to Fix Bond.

Jones LOoks " Use and Does Not ADOw-
Supreme Court to Fix Bond.
Assistant Attorney General W. P.
Campbell is laughing at Judge Jones
because of the way he vindicated the
dignity Of his court in the Massey con-
tempt case
After nearly a whole day Of profound
argument by able attorneys Justice
Jones decided that Chief Massey was IN
contempt for refusing to hand over
goods to a constable on a writ Of reple-
win issued by him.
Justice Jones after deciding that the
dignity of the court had been insulted
waited for twentyfour hours and then
issued a commitment TO Constable Tom
Voss to commit Chief Massey TO the
county Jail unit he surrendered the
goods described in the writ of replevin
Constable Tom Voss clothed with the
dignity of the law and approaching the
necessity Of compelling respect to the
judiciary marched down Main street
and found Chief Massey and his big
gold star on the corner of Main street
aad Douglas avenue.
It was the most public corner in the
city and bad perhaps been selected on
that account for the commitment of the
tragical act which followed.
Constable Tom Noss marched UP to
Chief Massey and with all the solem-
nifty of a United States marshal reading
the death warrant to a condemned man
proceeded TO read the writ OF commit
ment to him.
The people who stood on the corner
were amazed and when Constable Noss
started up Main street toward the
county jail with the chief of police,
some OF the people present felt like
dropping dead.
Chief Massey is in JAIL" passed
from mouth to mouth and great
ajority Of bushes men when they
went to supper last night believed that
Chief Massey was a prisoner in the
county jail for having resisted a pro-
cess Of court.
The chief of police was not seen on
the streets and the boys at headquar-
tiers said at 3 p. m, that they had not
seen the chief after Voss took him
on the commitment and then it was
thought certain that Mr.. Massey was
in Jail
a reporter for the Eagle saw Assist
ant Attorney General Campbell yes
terday afternoon and his eyes sparkled
with merriment when he said, yes,
Massey has been committed to jail for
contempt of court.
do you know what I think about
this case I think ii is all scheme
they, are working for a reciprocity
scheme.
''They refused to let Massey give bond
after we had agreed to carry the case
TO the supreme court. They wanted to
commit Massey and then turn him loose
so that when a jointist is arrested they
can say to Massey, now We were easy
on you and you ought to treat us the
same way.
THAT is the way they are trying to
arrange a reciprocity scheme. l just
want to say that the scheme will fail
and all the reciprocity they get out of
me they can put in their eye
Chief Massey was on the streets last
evening performing the duties of his
office as usual There was no faint
OF prison smell on his new clothes and
there was no indication that he was
afraid of being seen.
A reporter for the Eagle saw con-
stable Voss on North Main street af-
ter supper last evening and asked him
If he had taken Chief Massey to Jail
Eyes, he is now in Jail constructively"
said the good natured constable I'VE
expect TO have a bond from Topeka
tonight or in the morning fixed by the
supreme court"
You received a commitment from
Justice Jones, did you not?"
'Yes, and / took Massey on the writ
and he is now constructively in my
charge and in jail
Assistant Attorney General Camp
bell says lou fellows are trying to
work a reciprocity scheme that you
had a commitment issued for Chief
Massey and then turned him loose in
order 10 get favors for the jointists
when they are arrested by him"
Did Campbell say that?"
Yes
well if he did and If were In the
fell MI I Mt W
put him in jail tomorrow morning.
Il cannot see what Campbell means
by talking that way for all the law
yerS in the case were present when
Justice Jones issued the commitment
and they all agreed to just what was
done
Campbell said you fellows know that
Massey viii be here whenever you want
him and just issue the cOmmitmSGt
and ler the constable take him and then
turn him loose so that he will be con-
structively in jail when writ of habeas
corpus arrives and they all agreed to
il.
$50 far as am concerned did just
what I was instructed to do and If it
was not right / am not to blame but
! cannot see how Campbell could go
and talk that way after he was par
~ to the arrangement.
Justice Jones was asked yesterday If
Chief Massey had been sent to jail
but the justice only smiled and said
he did not know but that he bad issued
a. commitment and put into the hands
of an officer.
Justice Jones would not even discuss
the matter as TO whether construct
i've imprisonment would Soothe the
wounds in his official dignity caused
by Chief Massey's contempt. He was
not in a talking hunnor at all.
TO MEET MS WIFE.