Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-11-06
CITIZEN CHARLES ADAIR, OF
WILLIAMSON, MINGO COUNTY.
WEST VIRGINIA. ARRESTED
AND THROWN INTO JAIL.
The People To the Rescue.
GOVERNMENT FORCES RETREAT
AT FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE
MORNING.

WILLIAMSON. w. VA, Nov. So
Intense excitement prevailed here
last Saturday, November Sd, when
Deputy Marshal, Alex Day. of Welch
who had been in Williamson for n
day or two, arrested Charles Adair,
president of the Williamson Baking
Company, and placed him I'm the
county Jail OF Mingo county in a cell
with several negroes, on the charge
of violation of section 55OS of the
revised statute of the United States.
The-arrest was made little before
ten O'Clock in the evening. and ms
soon as the citizens of Williamson
learned of the fact intense excite
ment prevailed and IL was only
through the earnest persuasion OF
the more conservative ones that &C.
rious complications were prevented
1t appears that S. U. G. Rhodes.
United States Commissioner i'm the
Southern district of West Virginia,
and an ardent republican worker,
signed a lot of blank warrants rs
commissioner and delivered them to
various parties, and then left for
parts unknown, and Mr.. Day was
imported for the purpose of serving
them. After commissioner Rhodes
had left some one filled out several
OF these blanks and delivered them
to Mr.. Day, who, with full knowI-
edge of the circumstances. proceed
ed-to make the arrest of Mr.. Adair.
There was no means to obtain his
release and his friends sent to the
City of Huntington, the nearest
point where a United States Com
missioner resided and succeeded I'm
getting Mr.. Bryan to come To Will
Hanson that he might waive n pre-
liminary hearing and give bond This
he did, fixing Mr.. Adair's bond at a
nominal sum, due to the fact that
the statute under which he was ar
rested was unconstitutional, al
though over a hundred citizens. ir-
respective of politics, begged to put
their names upon the bond and il
would have been no trouble to have
furnished a bond running into the
millions should the commissioner
have required 1t.
Shortly after the arrest and I'm.
generation of Mr.. Adair In the
county jail. one of the policemen OF
the city OF Wilkinson arrested OF.
ficer Day on the charge of adultery
and fornication with one Mamie
Neal, and he was promptly put in
Jail to await trial; and Sunday in.
tervening, he could secure no triaI
until Monday morning, but some oil
his friends from Welch came to vii.
limson Sunday night on a train that
arrives here at one O'Clock, and gave
bond to appear on Thursday to stand
trial. and he was released about -four
o'clock in the morning.
The situation in the city this
morning is somewhat quiet but there
is a nervous tremor and the arrest
and Incarceration OF any other cit.
izens by such methods will, It is
feared, result in riot, as the county
officials have abandoned the situa.
tion and are busy importing Nc
Dowell county negroes into Mingo to
vote the republican ticket in the
coming election.
This morning Deputy Marshal
Dan Cunningham, and eight or ten
other Deputies. arrived in the city
OF Williamson with warrants for ali
the officers Of the city, sworn out by
one B. Randolph Bias, a political
heeler I'm the county. but IL is not
believed that the officers will take
any further hand in the matter. for
in justice to them, the matter had
been grossly misrepresented as to
the true reason of the arrest and de-
tentioh of United Etates Deputy
Marshal Day.