Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-08
Tom Dennison Likely to Fight
Extradition to the Supreme
Court of United States
WILL RAISE FEDERAL QUESTION
Little Doubs That the Omaha Courts
Will Deny the Application for
Writ of Habeas Corpus Remark
able Story by Saunders-Repeaters
Defeated cummins for Senator.

view, for the press here Senator Z. q
Saunders, of Council Bluffs, former
county attorney of Pottawattamje
county, said he doubted If the lows
authorities would get Tom Dennisor
Into Iowa within two years, due to the
are trying to raise a federal question
in the hearing of the writ of habeas
corpus and that If they are defeated
in the Omaha court the question WI
be carried to the state supreme court
| 1t would thus take two years to reach
a decision. Tom Dennison being man
of influence and with plenty of means
at his disposal would be enabled to
| fight the case to the court of last re-
sort. He will not come to Iowa until
every legal step has been taken to pre-
vent it. Dennison himself told Mar
! shall Christian that he would never
| go to Iowa If he could help it. If
| those farmers ever get u chance TO SIT
as my jury he said, they'll send me
| up for life for being gambler"
| AS further confederation of Saund-
ers' view is the fact that Dennison
had big Colts six shooter on him
when arrested by Christian and OBJ
! jected strenuously to giving 1t up.
| 1T was rather extraordinary that
his attorney. Mr.. Cornell. should have
permitted him to carry this weapon,
when he knew / was going to arrest
him." said Mr.. Christian. But Mr..
Cornell also told Mr.. Thomas, the
prosecuting attorney. that Dennison
would fight desperately in defense of
what he regarded to be his rights IL
/ attempted to get him across the river
before writ of habeas corpus could
be obtained From other sources I
have since learned that someone would
have been killed il / attempted to ar
rest Dennison and take him across into
Iowa before he got out the injunction.
The Omaha Bee, which appears to be
defending him, intimates as much.
and it is understood to have the conf
dence of Dehnison."
Saunders Story.
Senator Saunders tells remarkable
story. He discovered the probability
of Dennisons completely in the case
when he was county attorney at Coun-
Gil Bluffs several years ago. He recalls
many incidents in Shercliffe's and
| Dennison's careers. He said he had an
opportunity to get that portion of
Dennison's money which Dennison
claims to have expended with II. G..
Mcmillan, United States attorney for
the northern district of Iowa, for
merly chairman of the state central
committee He also believes that the
item in Dennison's statement relative
to running niggers across into Iowa
to vote" had an important bearing In
connection with the defeat OF A. h.
Curnmins for the United States sem
ate.
Senator Saunders is a resident of
Council Bluffs. is in close touch with
the situation in Omaha. He says that
the attorneys on both sides of the case
are the best that can be had. Attor-
neys Thomas and Bronze, who are
prosecuting the case against Dennison.
stand in the front rank of their pro-
fession, and Attorneys Connell and
Fry, who are defending him. are no
less skilled He predicts long drawn
out legal battla
After Mr.. Brome's argument at Oma-
ha yesterday, the impression prevailed
that the district judges who We're hear
ing the argument on the writ Of ha-
beas corpus, would undoubtedly dis
miss the case and allow Mr.. Christian
to take Dennison into Iowa. Mr..
Bronze had shown that the judges had
no right to inquire further than that
there had been evidence that Dennison
was a fugitive--not as to the sufficien-
cy of the evidence. The defense con-
tn tor
day forenoon and decision was eX-
pected some time in the afternoon. Ii
it is adverse to Dennison, as has been
predicted, it is deemed quite likely ap-
plication will be made to the supreme
court for "A restraining order and
decision on the writ of habeas corpus.
Others think Marshal Christian Will
have Dennison over into Iowa by to-
morrow noon.
ShercIiffe a Desperate.
"Shercliffe was a desperate of the
sort Dennison liked to know" said
Senator Saunders. when he was still
a youth of Is he shot his way to liberty
thru three policemen That happened
in Illinois. A few months afterward he
was under arrest in Missouri and the
sheriff was taking him to Jail. He was
idly twirling silver dollar in the palm
of his hand. He suddenly dropped 1t
and asked the sheriff to hand it to him.
AS the sheriff stopped down Shercliife
grabbed the revolver from the officers
hip pocket, placed the muzZle against
the mans body and told him to get
And the sheriff got
According to the information | had
when was prosecuting the McGue
case, Dennison was reputed to have a
penchant for diamonds. 1t was claimed
that he saw Pollock, the Jew diamond
salesman, exhibiting his goods in Ber-
stein's pawnshop. Dennison's cupidity
is alleged to have been aroused to such
an extent that he hunted up Shercliffe,
pointed out Pollock to him and in
structed him to get on the same train
and commit the robbery.
II knew all about the efforts that
were being made TO get Sherclitfe's par
ole In fact | had very strong induce
ments offered me to enter the fight for
the parole and could have had the mon
ey which Dennison claims to have paid
Mcmillan had I consented.
But as matter of fact, don't be-
Lieye Dennison's statement of account
az to the cost of that parole is alto
gether true. / think it was padded.
don't think the men got the amounts he
claims Shercliffe was very anxious to
get out of prison again and was threat
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