The age-herald., 1900-02-17
SPIRITED AWAY
 BY THE SHERIFF Prisoner Brought to This City
 For Safe Keeping. FEARS OF A MOB AT JASPER Charley Haynes White Man Charged With a Terrible Crime-Assault Made on Mrs. Dan Stevens
 Yesterday Morning.
FEARS OF A MOB AT JASPER

Charley Haynes, a white man about 70 years old, charged with committing criminal assault upon Mrs. Dan Stevens, a highly respectable woman, at Jasper, was brought to this city late yesterday afternoon and placed in the county jail for safe keeping, as it was feared he would be lynched if allowed to remain in Jasper
 In spirtlng the prisoner away the officers resorted to strategy, and excitment was at a high pitch when it was learned that Haynes had been sent to this county.
 Deputy Sheriff Tom O'Rear of walker county, who brought the prisoner to Blr- mingham, gives the following account oi the dastardly deed that threw the little town into the most intense excitement:
 About l o'clock last night a white man went to the house of Dam Stevens and gained entrance by prising a window with an axe. The window was nailed down. In the house was Mrs Stevens, who is about 9 years of age, and a brother, who was sleeping in an adjoining room. The brother is about 20 years old. When the woman attempted to speak the man raised his axe and thretened to brain her if she made sound. With uplifted axe he compelled her to submit and then made his exit by the same window.
 Mrs. Stevens called her brother in few minutes, and the authoritives were prompt ly notifl~1. Mrs. Stevens says the man was strongly under the influence of whisky. From her description, Charley Haynes was suspected. It was learned that Haynes was drinking, and spent the night about town. He lives three miles below Jasper, and works at Haynes mine. I arrested him, and carried him to Mrs. Stevens house, and she promptly Identified him as the man. He was placed in jail, and the threat of lynchins became so serious that Judge Shepherd or dered Haynes brought to Birmin gham for safe keeping.
 We did not let the people know that he had been fully identified, telling them that we intended to carry him back to Mrs. Stevens in the afternoon, but in the mean time Sheriff O'Rear and myself spirited Haynes out of jail and brought him to Cor dova, where I boarded the Kansas City train with him, and brought him to this city,
 A telegram from Jasper last night was to the effect that there was much indigna- tlon that Haynes had been spirited away.
 
 was away from home, working at a saw mill, where he was employed.
 Haynes was tried at the last term of the circuit court of Walker county for assault with intent to murder and convicted for an assault. He stoutly denies any knowl- edge of the crime He is very unlettered man apparently; is rugged in features, and really does not seem to be man who would have the daring to commit the crime with which he is charged. He would not impress one as fully realizing the enormity of the alleged act. Quite crowd was in the warden's office yesterday afternoon when Deputy O'Rear. of Jasper, brought him in. Very few persons, however knew for what the man was wanted until he had been locked up, Haynes is very uncommu- nicative.