Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-02
1H[ CASE Of RICHARDS
Apparently Nothing Peculiar
In His Failure to Appear at
Fort Madison
WILL MEET SHERIFF THERE
Would Not Be Accepted at the Peni-
Tertiary Without Being Delivered by
the Sheriff With tho Necessary Pa
pers-Pspers Will Be Issued in His
Case Today.

Des Moiaes, May attorney Cen
eral Mullan returned yesterday from
Waterloo, where he had been spending
Sunday with his family. and issued
an order to Clerk of the Supreme Court
Crockett for the issuance OF n proce-
dendo to the clerk of courts of War
rem county, In the w. A. Richards
case.
Clerk Crockett Immediately made out
the procedendo and forwarded 1t to In
dianola, which city it will reach this
morning. The clerk of the courts there
will promptly notify the sheriff of War
rem county by the issuance of mitti-
mus authorizing him to take Richards
to the penitentiary
The sheriff of Warren county will
leave tonight for Fort Madison and
there will find. tomorrow, the genial
"Bilr' Richards sitting in Warden
Jones' office ready to be turned over by
the sheriff to the prison authorities to
begin his sixteen year sentence.
ton, Ill. He went there Friday to see
his sister and brother before he goes
to prison. Last week. it develops. he
made inquiry of the authorities as to
when the procedendo would issue from
the office of the clerk of the supreme
court, il he should not file his petition
for rehearirg within the sixty days
limit fixed by the court rules. He was
informed that the procedendo In that
case would issue as soon as the attor-
ney general directed 1t. The bond
which Richards gave would be good,
of course until his mittimus in the
hands of the sheriff had been served
on him. At that instant, only, the
force of the bond would lapse.
General NIullan having gone to Wa
sterloo. Richards said that 1t was plain
that he would have time to visit his
brother and sister in Pennington be-
fore the sheriff would get his warrant.
and he would go over and meet the
sheriff at Fort Madison. OF course, he
knew that ne could not get into the
prison unless sheriff delivered him
up with the proper paper of commit
ment. The warden does not take in
voluntary guests. He has no authority
to spend state money feeding prison.
ers who have not been committed to
the institution by formal order. So
Richards was we'll aware, having taken
hundreds of men to, prison himself,
that he would be unable to break into
prison unless the sheriff was along
with the little paper warrant, and de-
cided to go over and see his relatives
perhaps for the last time. Already he
had said goodbye to his aged father
and mother down near Indianola.
II wouldn't have gone. thru the
state in irons, either. If had been
Yesterday, who has an interest in the
case. ct was a silly pride, perhaps,
but Richards himself has taken hun-
dreds of men If not thousands thru
the state in irons, and do not Won
der that ne was sensitive, and be-
lieved 1t humiliation he could not
endure. He meets the sheriff of War
rem county at the prison gates and they
will enter together, and that is bet
ter
The stories that his bond has been
released because his time of appeal,
had, passed without his having been
arrested are without foundation. The
bond is good till the sheriff of War;
rem county gets possession of Rich
ards, and then, and then only, the
bond will be discharged. Were the
sheriff then to release him 1t would be
at his own risk There was story
to the effect that Richards had gone
to the sheriff and given himself up and
had been released by that officer on his
own recognizance. But the informa-
tion from Indianola Is to the contrary.