The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-30
A W0EFUL SQUALL
Inconsistencies of Fed
eraI Court Cry-ers.
Judge PurnelFs Cry.er Meows Be-
cause He's in Jail, and Judge
Boyd's Cry-er Yaps Because
He's Out.
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Greensboro, n. c., June 29.-Fed-
eral court cry-ers is serving a sentence
of Imprisonment in Wake county Jail.
Judge Boyd's cry-er has just been
turned out of a snug position as keeper
of the Wilkes county jail. At a recent
term of the Federal court in Wilkes
boro seven influential citizens We're
sentenced to terms of imprisonment
in that Jail, their home institution of
correction for confessed or jury-de-
clared frauds against the United States
revenue, commonly called 'moonshin-
ing" meaning making whiskey sub
rosa. or in the light of the moon,
where Uncle Sans eyes are not as far
seeing as in the sunlight.
BY reason of alleged indulgence of
liberty to the prisoners. one of the
most prominent among them took ad-
vantage of his privileges some weeks
ago and abused the confidence repOSed
in him by the jailer, who permitted a
nocturnal visit to his sweetheart in the
mountains, five miles distant, by not
coming back. Other prisoners said to
have been given the same privileges
have never failed TO be present at roll
call in the morning. recent Federal
court grand jury presented the sheriff
for an escape and for allowing prison
erS to have "DriSon bounds around
the town for diversion, and Judge
Boyd gave strict orders for strict con-
1inement, according to the statutes in
such cases made and provided. but the
sheriff bore the blame, and the cry-er
jailer kept his place undisturbed.
Fresh reports of fresh incurSionS of
the prisoners into the social realms of
Wilkesboro and adjacent territory
III. I, yx,.t tl1 Ntnf
Marshal Millikan last week, he gave
the sheriff the alternative of dischlrg-
ing the Jailer or transferring the pris-
onerS to the Jail at Dobson, in Surry
county. This proposition was not ac-
cepted by the sheriff until a deputy
marshal presented himself at the
door of the all last Saturday with
peremptory orders for the transfer of
the Federal quota of thei jail populi-
tion to Dobson. The sheriff quieted
the alarm of the prisoners by notifying
the marshal that he had substituted a
new keeper of the prison, warranted
to keep the prisoners in.
1t is said that all day SUNDAY and
Monday in Wilkesboro there were
councils of war and peace, in each one
of which the estimable sheriff was the
target for focused consideration and
advice, counsel criticism and threats,
pOlltlcaI ana SOcial. Inc prisoners,
happy at first to think they escaped
the horrowS of baniShment to a Jail
in q foreign, and as they believed, a
sterile and dry land, became restive
under the restraint of confinement be-
. tween the walls of the prison which
the new keeper placed upon them,
and by Sunday night mutinied by
tongue and pen. The sheriff succeeded
i'm keeping them within bounds, prom
ising that if they would stand it lit
tie longer he would himself come to
Greensboro, lay the case before the
marshal in person and get a resembling
of the order displacing the old Jailor.
He came to Greensboro yesterday and
importuncd Marshal Millikan to allow
the old Jailer to resume his superVis,
ION of the prison and the prisoners
While regretting his inability to ac-
cede TO these opportunities and ex-
pressing a desire to do so. the mar
shal, after saying he was honestly
"afeard' of Judge Boyd if he back
pedaled. stood like a stone wall against
the pressure, yielding not an inch from
the ultimatum: 1.-The old jailer or the
prisoners must leave Wilkes county
Jail And this morning the high
sheriff of Wilkes returned sorrow
fully unto his own home. anticipating
a very warm reception at the reception