The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-31
Mountain King Delivered
BY His Colleagues
DEMANDED REWARD
payfe County Merchant AdJndGeu
bankrupt - Interesting ketfc Oh
tne Finance of the fathcrs-
$3.50 License 40 sell Fire
NV ANDREW JOINER

Works
nv ANDREW yOYNER.
Greensboro. y G. Dec. 2s.-Oscar
Sisk. arrested yesterday near his home
ten miles from Danbury, In stokes
county vas brought heer today py
( Sherin J. l.. Petree and two Ihitoa
tates deputy marshals. ana placed IN
! Jail. &isl, Was first t+hen st nSlots
! United states Commissioner W ole +
under a charge Of Illicit distiliing, was
held for preliminary examination on
January 5tE. The bond OF ten thou-
sand dollars fixed by the commission
or MOI beinc given Sisk was committed
To iail Sisk had no attorney being
brought Immediately from the tram
before the commissioner lie was
handcuffed and his arms were ued pc
hind his back with new manila
rome Before the commissioners ne
lowered above all present oelhg
MAGNIFICENT specimen Of physlcal man
hood six feet two, weighing exactiS
) 2O2 pounds. He had shoes OF CO"
} hide covered with red mud OF ms
mountain section. blue denim pants
:. a heavy black overcoat and com
= mon black undercoat His race
would look distinguished in any crowd
and but for the very heavy coat on
a coarse black hair. drooping over ms ms
: forehead. he would not be taken Tor
I a hard character. his chih Wa wa
f clean shaven, medium black nous
y tache setting off powerful mouth,
s and his nose was of the strict patrlciah
:, acquline type. He stood pelole .;,.a ne
e accusers. calm and undemonstratVe.
t Tn answer to the marShals request 10
s the commissioner to give until Jahu,
e arv 5th to have a hearing. Slsk askeu
e why it could not be had now. / an
ready to be heard now. ne meeEi!
said Then he wanted to see the
r vibrant. and asked what il charged
= "Illicit distilling," ne was informed
" and said nothing further. lie wa
"a marched to jail, tremendous CROW
IL Following and as he walked ne walk
is ed like q mountain king, there penn
is hard expression something AKIN Z
III the look on a bated bull. when uh
I'd certain Of what is wanted ol MN
Arrested under reward of on
thousand dollars by the government
- FOR the delivery of the murderers
Revenue officer HenGr1cIS, II was *
/ pected that Sisk would be commute -
4 charged with this CRIME but q
no warrant charging this onehse ma
been issued ,..
Sisk stoutly denies any complicit
f.. in the attack on the revenue oiAceIi
ri and SAYS he can prove without coz
N troyersy that he was not IN the helsh
borboo1 last Friday when some on
shot down and instantly killed pray
revenue officer III a hundred 1eet
his Illicit still in the Smithtown sec
ton of stokes county Wheh 49,
raiders he was lying near Sisk nom
between it and the barn. when w
,b- itself but hundred feet from Wht'
a thev found and destroyed a oiock@'
= stili There IS mystery about Slsk
IN canture that made the officers yeste
of dav DecuIiarly on their guard ShtT
Of petree VINO brought him here toda
ich saws that yesterday while ffteeh MI
ere from Danbury in Searcn OF pa =
Ia wanted for a Christmas murder. !
I1 been
)ne 10 Danbury by Jim and Cephas .
de- son and they had him IN the COZ
ted house. but refused to deliver MN
it en- officer until the thousand doIla
we'd cash offered as a reward was put
~. their hands.
tie They could not be budged from II
ar resolution, the sheriff assuring tht
do BY phone that it would be an ii5
sor- re had to travel TO i)anoul8 9Ee %
# rougb mountain roads and finding
lals ,,arty there the Nelson's with su
of and >-isk unarmed, he again tried
the harley Finding the men obdul'
liti- and declaring they would turn :
loose the sheriff summonlng 81
de- aient force 10 prevent attempt at
the sistance. had Sisk marched 70 1ali'
all then he counted out one thousa
the dollars in cash to the two men. " y
were not only brotners-ln-iaW 70 -
hut one o. them IS said to be pa
nor Nth Sisk in the liquor busln'
another brother, David Nelson
and ar,,irg a term in the penitentiary
$ Atlanta for blockading in half a y
Of Sisks place. Heavily guafu
the iail last night, TIE prisoner
takan ont this morning and wltf
ol heavy escort was taken acTt =
ser o1Intr> Ia miles to Walnut g
pat yvher. the train was boarded. reacn
dou9 Greensboro without further incld
d at ore O'Clock.
ana before the .day Of the prelimin
con, examination the government hope'
M anu he able to bag dozen men suspe'
~ u hin of completely in the murder
M ,Mapln ". r James BankruT~
Neic In the United States court TO-DAY
F. James. merchant Of farmlng
Da1-ie county. was adjudged bank
NaNS aud " \. Horn. of Pennington,
pIiIS yar,ad as permanent receiver
= : Id9 ,1oatter was referred TO J. +. Alexan
+r,.[i. referee at Winston. for further
s in ceedings.
aimed The large SNOW .. - ar,
va BILE son. on South Elm street was SIN
No ed bv a thief before day this NOR
III = and 4 quantity of dry goods ST
On IF from the merchants stock.
lam Finance OF the Fathers.
- ,f Mr. T. T Sweat, OF this city. ha
interesting relic of the hnance
the fathers in the shape Of ;
!; dollar bill issued by authority oI
Continental Congress Of Anne
,er of dated November p, 114s ms
is signed BY r n Johnson. =
retail Treasurer. and is Well preSe
,roan- II was found by the owner of a.
,aIoor house at Hill Tip, this county. re
arters fy. betWee the ceili4s 'i1'
nd all torn of.
ressed License 10 Seai IN ;. .
As christmas aftermath. the CIR