The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-01-16
=zHeATIONFOLLOWED SENSATION
..w.s+ed for Forging Express Money Orders, Finally
H. ~ a 70 Muscogee County Officers. Deputy Sheriff
wv u;chaeI Arrested. A Weird Jail Scene.

80, 0nmixed with tragic welrdneSS
NOV ,orarture of H. c! Ligon from
was ~ rnr county Jail for the one in
the l ! last Wednesday night
Na'cOS a,1 lantern cast its uncertain
a ' 5o~n the dark corridor OF the
II rays down ha,f a score of cells as
prison. faces peered curiously at what
nans '@ transpiring without; Llgon'
, ,,,ing completed his preparations 9,, .t top
u h y innrney, walked with steady step
~ J0 'ho hall to the entrance room'
s Sano VT the officers were waiting lls IL, Tor
Fns'' Going up to Deputy Sheriff Nc
hnl' ~ who vas here from Columbus
Sll'I I'o him to the scene of one OF his
neced crimes, he SAID
allTS ~ mo see the warrant upon which
.,n are taking me, please
YOU rt ." officer reached into his inner
~ and produced the desired
C0a' .aont, The prisoner stepped over
oU'"I 1antorn and after reading by the
4 s %sn light the words OF the paper
l hioh had deprived him of his liberty
"D. ala with firm voice, Il am ready
i to t., co." and held out his hands for the
& irons Correctional Case.
An account of Ligon's case was
,rarin last weeks NEws-his forgery
tcoutharn Express Company money
w., how he had been followed by
n.,ootive Burps, his arrest, the COM
n,icatiops growing out OF the fact that
f,'or mani on which he was original
" arrested charged, by reason OF
.,ror or oversight, that the crime was
committed in Terrell instead OF Musco-
Gee county, and his refusal Tor that
reason to be taken away.
The prisoner, however, was nnalJy
delivered to the Muscogee officers,
hr+ If was not until after several ex-
citing and sensational incidents had
occurred and his attorneys had made
ovorv effort possible to keep him here.
The bsbeas corpus proceedings which
we're begun in his behalf, and the
boariup of which was in progress
when THE NEWS went to press last
Tuesday, resulted in his being remand
ed to the custody of Sheriff Christie.'
The efforts of the detective and the
Muscogee county officials to secure
Lyon did not end here, however, and
Attorneys A. M. Raines and G. Il.
Williams, the latter being here to as
sist the prosecution as the representa-
tive Of the Third National Bank OF
that city, which is said to have cashed
some Of the forged orders, left on the
first train for Arlington, where they
presented the matter to Judge II. G.
Sheffield of the superior court Of this
circuit.
Judge Sheffield, after hearing their
# presentation of the facts in the case,
Dbl wired Sheriff Christie to turn the pris-
oner over to the Muscogee county au-
thOrities, Upon the receipt of this
4 telegram, which came a short time be-
fore'the train was to leave, Jailer Slade
and Deputy Sheriff McMichael of the
after county, who was here for the
purpose of taking Lyon to Columbus,
went to the jail to carry out the order.
Would Not BE Delivered.
They found Ligon in his night
clothes and he refused to dress and go
with Mr., McMichael, who told him
81 mat he would have to 60 then in his
partly disrobed condition and took
mold Of him to carry him to a hack
NJ mat was waiting on the outside of
'ne JAIL Lyon resisted but the Of
ncerS succeeded in getting him to the
outer door of the jail, where further
~ progress was stopped by Attorney NJ.
y edwards, of the prisoners counsel,
rushing upon the scene and serving
another writ of habeas corpus upon the
OulcerS. He was, therefore, returned
" Ills CELL and Deputy McMichael de-
'lued to go back to Columbus and re-
'ufn later for the prisoner.
Inc attorneys for the prisoner state
'ua' neither they nor their client
Ane" OF Judge Sheffield's order when
.u' second writ of habeas corpus was
M issued.
Mr.. McMichaeI Arrested.
mere new feature was added to the
sensational events that were rapidly
r"u'Prlng' Mrs. Lyon, the newly
a ,,a' ''eQ wife of the prisoner, swore
Nh variant for Deputy Sheriff Nc
hooa a1'' arrest, charging him with
S and kicking her husband
GENERAL CONFERENCE.