The bee., 1901-11-28
union CAMPERS DISMISSED
It Was Either This or Else Jaiing the Gang and
Having Them to Feed All Winter.

right, cap, We'll 60 with you" They
were marched 500 yards and loaded
into the box car and the train was
run to Nortonville where the pris-
oners were ira lsferred to one of the
coaches and the tents and camp
equipage loaded in the box cars.
Before the transfer was made two
prisoners, Jim Plat; Arlie Oates,
camp captain and lieutenans
in the Greenville company of
militia, walked out of the box car
and off through the woods. The
following is the list Ct the prisoners
taken:
Curt Horsfield, j. w. Harris, L..
V. Wright, Arthur Tommason, John
Young, Stallard Dunning, George
Spence, Jim Anderson, j. A. Hogan,
]. B. Crofton, ]. w. Aaron, Melton
Barnes, VIM. Crick, t. l.. Hewlett,
j. V. Vickery, Mace Young, Herbert
Gaddis, Will Larmath, G. M. Barnes,
H. Saddler, John Trotter,
These men were taken to Madison
vile and locked up in Jail and the
tents and camp equipage left in the
cars under seal. They were brought
before Judge Hall Monday and
charged with banding and confed-
Grating together for the purpose of
intimidation, etc., which is a felony
punishable with Imprisonment in
the penItentiary for term not ex-
ceeding five years. The bonds were
raised from 800 to 5000 each and all
were sent to Jail to wait trial We'd
nesday morning. r. B. Bradley
represented the defendants.
Wednesday morning the cases
were called before Judge Hall. r.
B. Bradley and Jonson and Jennings
represented the defendants and ],
F. Gordon and G. j. Waddell ap-
peared for the prosecution. The de-
PENDANTS filed an affidavit to remove
Judge Hall from the bench, and
elected to be tried before Magistrate
Jagoe at one o'clock. When time
for trial arrived the prisoners waived
examining trial and withdrew theiI
affidavit. The Judge then dismissed
each on his own recognIzance to an.
swer the charge of banding and con.
federating together, at the February
term of circuit court. 1t was either
this or imprison and feed the-ganr
all winter, and the Judge saved the
county the expense of keeping at the
public expense a lot of irresponsible
loafers who may have done some
violence but never outlined policy,
The prisoners after being released
bought tickets for Nortonville in
company with quite crowd Of
unionists, many of whom were
drinking. Between Morton's Gar
and Oak Hill the conductor reported
riotous conduct i'm the smoker and
special agents j. b. and Jeff Harlan
went in to quiet the trouble. They
found unionists with pistols out ter
rorizing the passengers and saying
what they would do at Nortonville
as to establishing the camp. A
big gun was taken away from ole OF
these bullies by Chief Harlan, who
was forced to knock the rowdy down
Another one of the gang who was
disorderIy was slapped into quie-
tude. OF course the usual run Of
threats were made afterward.
Chas. Placman, a negro agitatol
and organizer who hailed from Illi-
nois and has been operating in Hop
kins county for about twelve months
was arrested at Madisonville late
this afternoon on a warrant charg-
ing him with the felony of "banding
and confederating together, etc.
He went to jail in default of bond
which was placed at $500.
There is a meeting of Unionists al
Central City today at which a large
number are expected to be present
The Chinese Exclusion Act will be
discussed and speechmaking in
dulged in.