The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-18
THE OKLAHOMA OFFICER. WIFI
HIS PRISONER. WAS APPRE-
HENDED AT MINEOLA.
He WAS ESCORTED BACK 70 WACO
Where Il Charge of Sentence for Con
tempt of Court Is Hanging Over Ills
Head-Rcgistercd Under an
Assumed Name.

Mineola, Tex. Feb. 14.-(Spccial =
Deputy Sheriff Hiram APPEL, assisted by
| City Marshal J. c. Gale, arrested here
this morning Sheriff NJ. +. Lake of Paw
nee county, Oklahoma Territory. who
had in charge as his prisoner Professor
Frank Edwards of Waco, Tex.
Sheriff Lake and Professor Edwards
are the parties TO the rather sensational
habcas corpus proceedings in Judge Sur
rats court in Waco, as was stated i'll
The Statesman recently.
Sheriff Lake left Waco in Il buggy
with his prisoner, going to Norwood, Me
Lehman county, where he boarded the
Aransas Pass train about midnight, going
to Cameron, then to IIcarne over the
Santa Fc, where he changed to the In
ternatiOnal and Great Northern road,
reaching Mincola at II: 80 last night.
Arriving here, the sheriff and his pris-
Oner registered at the Union Depot hotel
under assumed names. Sheriff Lake
registered as Frank Baden, Tulsa, |. T.,
and the prisoner, Professor Edwards.
was handed the pen and told by Lake to
register as J. +. Erwin.
The identity of the sheriff and his pris-
oncr was discovered by l.. X. Barnes.
tie contractor for the International and
Great Northern Railway. Mr.. Barnes
came in from the south on the same train
and having read II full account of the
proceedings of the court at Waco, of
Edwards release by Judge Surratt, his
subsequent arrest and being taken away
by Sheriff Lake, he reached the conclu-
sion that these were the parties who
figured in the courts at Waco.
Mr. Barnes lives here and when he
reached here at 11:15 last night he hunt
ed up Deputy Sheriff Hiram APPEL and
told him that the sheriff and his prisoner
were here. Deputy APPEL had no legal
papers by which he could arrest Sheriff
Lake and was undecided what to do. He
approached Sheriff Lake, who readily ad-
mitted both his and the prisoners iden-
tity. Deputy APPEL first decided not to
and Sheriff Lake was ready
to board the north bound Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas train at $40 this morning
when Mr., APPEL concluded to hold Lake
and his prisoner. When notified by Dep
uty APPEL, Sheriff Lake yielded without
any demonstration.
At $40 this morning Mr.. APPEL wired
Judge Surratt and also Sheriff Baker of
Waco to know if they wanted Lake and
Edwards. Matters by this time had be-
come rather interesting, and Mr.. Boone,
of the Western Union, agreed
to rush the message. Promptly at $40,
just thirty minutes after the filing of the
messages for Waco, answers came back.
Sheriff Baker wired to Deputy Baker
that they were not wanted. This placed
Deputy APPEL in an uncomfortable posi-
ton.
The message from Sheriff Baker was
hardly off the wires before one was re-
,eived from Judge Surratt to hold both
Lake and Edwards and bring them be-
fore his court in Waco. In few mo-
ments Judge Surratt wired Deputy APPEL
4 warrant in legal form, ordering him
to bring both Lake and Edwards before
MS court in Waco. He also instructed
Mr.. APPEL to notify him Immediately if
Sheriff Lake should institute proceedings
to obtain his Uake's) release from GUS
today.
Deputy Sheriff APPEL left over the Texas
and Pacific and the Cotton Belt for
Waco at 1920 this morning with Sheriff
Lake and Edwards.