Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-02-21
ELLIOTT R e
Ills Arrest by the Illinois Commission
Firm Decided Not Legal-wiIl
Bring Suit for Damages,

oeeVe Elliott is again a free man
Ihe trlal OF the writ of habeas corn,,
entered by Cullen and Edmonston at.
eorneys for the prisoner, saturda,
morning Immediately after Sherif
sturgeon of Montgomery county reaf
the warrant to Elliott, was tried he.
fore Probate Judge Edwards of th;.
city Monday at 1 O'Clock. The
matter was postponed from IL O'Clock
mat morning (the time set until tbe
above hour on account OF Sheriff stur.
geon being in hopes that a requisitiou
from the Governor of Illinois wop,d
arrive by that time.
The Governor of Illinois refus;,o r.
sign the requisition made the writ nj
ndoeds corpus good and the arrest was
decided Illegal and the prisoner let
loose Elliott returned home this
afternoon to Galloway county. Sheriff
sturgeon also returned home.
Messrs. Cullen and Edmopstor -,
Eiiiott's attorneys, will ale a suit for
damages against Metcalf & Co. the
V stock commission merchants of
East st. Louis, ILL.,, who issued the
warrant without obtaining a requisition
Tor Illegally holding Elliott under ar
rest, and also file a like suit against
sheriff Sturgeon for the same reason
The suits viii likely be for 1000
each.
III Is thought that Metcalf & Co. will
again issue a warrant with the proper
requlsltion and arrest Elliott t-c e
ond time as the following dispatch
from East St. Louis, seems to infer.
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL, Feb. 1s.-State
Attorney Schaefer will ask Governor
Altgeid for a requisition from Govern
or Stone to bringElliot to Illinois. The
hrm failed sometime since with liabil-
tiles at about $4,000, and assets ap-
parently about $4,000.
1t is understood that other firms at
the National Stock Yards will also
prosecute Elliot. 1t is claimed that
McNama & Elliot shipped cattle to the
National Stock Yards and secured CON
siderable advances from a number of
commission firms.
1t is said by the commission men
mat a number of the advances were
obtained by false representations.
Some time back Elliott claims that
he received an anonymous letter from
a party or parties in his vicinity in
forming him that for the safety of
himself and family che had better
leave the neighborhood "within eight
days." Elliott placed guards around
his house to protect his family and
skipped out and from Jan. % till last
Saturday, Sheriff Sturgeon has been
hunting him. 1t has been several
| weeks since he received the anony-
nous letter and he thinks that by now
things will be safe to return home,
although he is still very over
the affair.
ELLIOTT GAVE HIMSELF UP.
Metcalf & Co., commission mer-
chants, of East st. Louis, ILL.,, issued
the warrant, charging Elliott with
gaining money under false ~pretenses,
through an Illinois Justice of the Peace.
The warrant was issued January 26th
and Sheriff Sturgeon received it Janu-
airy 25th, but has been unable to serve
it upon Elliott until that morning.
Mr.. Elliott, being informed of the
afternoon from his home in Galloway
County, g milss senth of Martinsbur2,
and t~elegraphed Sheriff Sturgeon to
come up and read the warrant to him.
| This was done in the office of
Cullen 4 Edmonston, attorneys for
Elliott. Owing to the fact that no
requisition from the Governor of Him
| OILS to the Governor Of Missouri was
sent with the warrant, which is always
necessary in matters of this kind, Mr..
Elliott's attorneys entered Il writ of
hdbeas corpus before Judge Edwards
Immediately after the warrant was
read.
Mr.. Elliott, when seen by a repre-
sentative of this paper, did not seem
to be worried over the affair at all.
He said that he borrowed on October
25, 1894, $500 from Metcalf & Co. and
gave them his note for it and security,
and they sent him q draft for the said
amount. He displayed the contract,
&c, and he intimated that he did not
see how they could get any money if
| their side should win, for he did not
have it.
The joke on the good-natured Mont
gomery County Sheriff about him
freezing hands and feet in his search
for Elliott and sleeping in the same
house with him and not knowing it,
seems to be a rafting good one from
the way his friends and even his pris-
oner "josh' him about it.