The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-09-20
THE CONTEMPT CASE
OF SUPT. HARRISON.
He Appears Before Federal Court to
Answer for Refusal to Give Up Capt
Tygard, Inmate Of No. 4.

DIR. j. +. Harrison, Superintendent
OF State Hospital No. 4, went to St.
Louis Monday to appear before Judge
Dyer of the Federal Court, citation
having been issued against him charg-
ing contempt, for refusing to give up
Capt. Flavius }. Tygard, an inmate Of
No. 4, to the United States Marshal.
Capt. 1ygard was president of the
wrecked Bates County National Bank,
and indictments were found against
him in connection with the bank $
failure after he had been adjudged in.
sane aud committed to the hospital.
DR.. Harrison declined to surrender
him to the Federal authorities without
an order from the State courts com.
mitting him. For this he was cited
for contempt.
At the close Of the hearing DR.. Har-
rison informed the court through his
attorneys that If Judge Dyer decided
that he was in contempt he would sur
render Tygard without further ques-
tion. lie was acting without preju-
dice in the matter, believing that he
no authority to surrender an inmate
committed to the hospital for insanity,
except by an order OF the State courts
committing him, Therefore, If his
action was held to be in contempt of
the Federal court he would give up
capt rygard to the Federal authori.
ties.
Judge Dyer on "Wednesday decided
that the Federal and not the Missouri
State courts retained jurisdiction ever
FlayiuS j. Tygard, former president
of the Bates Covnty National Bank,
although a he has been committed to an
insane asylum by the St Francois
County Probate Court. Prior to his
commitment to the insane asylum nj
Pennington eleven indictments had
been returned against Tygard for his
alleged completely in the transactions
that wrecked the bank.
The United States officials charge
that Tygard is sane and has had him.
self committed to the asylum in order
to escape trial upon the Federal in-
dictnents. He will be taken tn st.
Louis in few days and later to Kan.
sas City, where he will stand trial. If
found guilty on all counts he will re-
ceivo 220.ycar sentence. Tygard is
ready : years old
ln delivering his decision Judge
Dyer said when Il State court and
a court of the United States may each
tab C jurisdiction of a matter, the tr-
bunal whose jurisdiction first attaches
may hold ii to the exclusion of the
other until the duty is fully performed
and the jurisdiction involved is cN-
hausted, and this rule applies alike in
both civil and crIminrl cases.
Judge Dyer SAID he believed DR..
Harrison acted in good faith aud dis.
missed the proceedings of contemp,
against him
Felix" in his Libertyvillc cor.
respondcnce, suggests that before
Pennington has another stock show We
prepare better accommodation for the
people. And that reminds us that the
Y. W. &. A. has rest room on the
second floor of the Farmers Bank
building which was not used by any of
the women visitors during the stock
show, perhaps because they did not
know of it, ond there was no one to
direct them to it. Felix says he stood
around on the dusty street until he was
too tired to rest. Oh, we'll, he is a
man and ought to be able to stand
that sort of thing once year, and
then it wonld be pretty hard to fur
nish all the thousands of visitors to the
stock show with comfortable seats;
but seriously, better arrangements in
the way of ample rest rooms ought to
be provided for the women, and es-
pecially for those with babies and
small children. 4