Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-12-07
Clash Over a Prisoner.
Iowa Sheriff and Deputies Here
Seek in Vain to Take Man
derson Away.
Queer Middle Results Over
the Disposition of the Man
Who Stole two Bolts
Jailers Want to Give Him Oy.
or but Have no Writ to Re-
lease Him to Answer
to Crime in Mis-
souri, Valley.

to Crime in Mis-
souri, Valley.
From the World Herald)
A controversy over the requisi-
tion of a prisoner made q lively
hour late last evening for Deputy
Sheriffs Lewis and Mcdonald,
Deputy Clerk of the Court Steere
Attorney O'Halloran and Sheriff
John L Shelton of Harrison toun-
ty Ia. It is thought that il more
principals and fewer deputies had
been engaged the result would
have been more definite.
But as it turned out Sheriff
Shelton came to o msha yesterday
thinking that he would take back
with him on the evening train q
prisoner out of the county jail,
but he did not take him. The
sheriff remained here all night,
however, and hopes that he may
be more successful this morning.
The prisoner was committed for
trial from the police court under
the name of Fred Madsen. He
was charged with grand larceny
in having stolen from NJ p Smith
& Co two bolts of valuable cloth.
He and the cloth we're secured in
a saloon in Omaha early in Sept
ember.
It was first the intention 10
prosecute him here, but it develop
ed that the cloth was taken out Of
q box car at Missouri Valley and
the grand jury in Harrison coun-
~ recently indicted Fred Mander-
son for burglary.
SOMETHING IN A NAME.
SO yesterday county attorney
nolle pressed the case with the I'M
derstanding that the prisoner
should be turned over to the
Harrison county sheriff. Deputy
Sheriff Lewis of Douglas county
was in the court room when the
case was nolled and he told sheriff
SHELTON to go to the jail and get
his man.
But Attorney O'Halloran was
also in the court room and he went
to the Jail and told sheriff Shelton
he could not take the man except
at his peril, since the reqiusition
papers called for Fred Henderson
and the prisoner was registered
at the jail and had been complain
ed against in Douglas county as
Fred Madsen. Mr.. O'Halloran
also sought to impress the jailer
of the peril of turning the prisoner
over when the papers called for a
man Of another name.
James, Jones, Shelton O'Hal-
loran and Madison or Mandsen
we're all in the Office and corridor.
Shelton put the hand cuffs on his
man. O'Halloran asked by whose
authority the prisoner was to be
delivered, and protested. Jones
said the man could not go and the
cuffs must come of.
"Very we'll" said Shelton, eff
you fellows wont give him up all
right; we'll see," and off came the
cuffs q md Shelton retired from the
Jail.
PRISONER STAYS IN JAIL.
Then O'Hallorau hurried over
to Deputy Clerk Steere to get a
certified copy OF the order dis
charging Madison. He got 1t and
hurried back to the Jail to present
it but in the meantime Deputy
Sheriffs Lewis and Mcdonald had
arrived at the Jail. They said
it was trne that Madsen had been
discharged, but he was now held
for the Harrison county sheriff
and would be held for him ten
days if necessary.
What bothered the jailer SO was
that they had no written orders
from anybody to release the
prisoner and especially had no
word from the sheriff who was the
legal custodian of the prisoner.
They we're unwilling to act upon
the mere verbal direction of the
Deputy Lewis or the deputy any
body else. They refused also to
turn the prisoner scot free on the
certified copy of the discharge In
court.
There was soma talk of no HI.