Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-11-26
AS HORSE THIEVES
JOKER HAD TWO OF HIS FRIENDS
ARRESTED.
Prank Almost Resulted in a LynehIng,
and Victim Finds II Hard to
Forgive the Author Of
the Plot.


indianapolis last week, saws the Star
of that city. One was NJ. Scott Nc
Donald of Richmond, Va. and the
other was Floyd A. Woods, an attor-
ney Of Indianapolis. Ten years ago
these men were students In Wabash
college at Charlottesville.
Mcdonald is a grandson of the late
Senator Joseph E. Mcdonald. Woods
and Mcdonald were friends for years
In Indianapolis before they went to
college.
When they met the other day Nc
Donald said: Il have never quite for
given you. Woods, for the time you
nearly got me lynched"
And thereby hangs the tale.
In little Sitting" which Mcdonald
and some of his old chums had the
other evening the story was retold.
1 was only getting even for what
you did to me-" said Woods. DO YOU
remember the night lay in my white
little couch soundly sleeping over
there at Charlottesville and you and
some Of your friends came In with a
pitcher of ice water and dashed it all
over me? Do you remember how I
ran you half a mile down the prin-
clpal street attired in my night
clothes?"
Mcdonald remembered the incident
and he also remembered how Woods
got even.
A week after the ice-water incident
Mcdonald and classmate. Brax Car
penter, started to drive from Craw.
louisville to Indianapolis. They had
TO pass through the village of James
town. which they would reach about
midnight. An hour before they ar
rived the jamestown marshal received
this telegram: IF two young men
driving a black horse come to your
town arrest them at once. Be careful.
they are desperate. Horse stolen"
The telegram was signed Mark
Davis"
1 wrote that telegram and pushed
1t under the operators door while he
was at supper" said Woods q pushed
quarter in with it. OF course the
operator had to send it."
When We turned up at jamestown
little after midnight" said McDon-
aid, there sat the marshal in the mid
ole or the street with a badge on as
big as my hat. He arrested us at the
point of two big revolvers.'
Mcdonald and Carpenter were kent
under arrest until late the next after
noon. They were kept under heavy
guard as they were looked upon as
desperate men. About nine O'Clock
the next morning Mcdonald had a
happy thought. He knew the Big Four
train passing east through jamestown
probably would carry some Crawfords-
Vile men.
Come down to the train with me"
he said to his guards. land I will con-
vince you that am innocent"
When the train drew in half a dozen
Charlottesville men jumped to the
platform. They had all been posted
by Woods
ASK these men," said Mcdonald
and the marshal did so. Each man de-
clared: Il never saw these fellows be-
fore" Late that afternoon the bows
were released on the strength of tele.
grams from Charlottesville. Just be-
fore their release an old farmer of the
locality approached Mcdonald. It am
deeply grieved," he said. ito find that
the grandson of my old friend. Senator
Mcdonald, would steal a horse and
then add to his crime by lying about
it,"
III Woods lives to be a thousand
years old" Mcdonald said. Il don't
thlnk Will ever forgive him for that
trick.