The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-16
CAPTAIN SHIPP GETS SENTENCE IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE sU-
 PREME COURT GAVE A
 CONTEMPT SENTENCE.
Gibson, One of the Prisoners, Once Served in the Prison as Con-
 federate Soldier.

Washington, D. G.. Nov. 15.-For the first time in American history six men are in prison tonight for con tempt of the supreme court of the United States. For the first time, tcp, the federal government has plac- cd men behind the bars as an outcome of the lynching of a negro.
 At the United States jail in this city Captain Joseph K. Shipp, former sheriff at Chattanooga, Tenn; Jere- mah Gibson, his jailor. and Luther Williams, Nick Nolan, Henry Padgett and William Mayes, of the same city, began this afternoon to serve terms of Imprisonment imposed a few hours before by the supreme court of the United States.
 Shipp and Gibson had been found guilty of failing to protect from a mob Ed Johnson. whose legal execution for rape had been stayed by the supreme court, until that tribunal could review the case.
 The others had been found guilty of participation In the lynching of a federal prisoner. Shipp Williams and Nolan were given sentences of ninety days each imprisonment. while Gib- son. Padget and Mayes each received sixty days.
 As the big barred doors of the jail swung open 10 receive ahe prisoners this afternoon immediately after sen tence had been imposed, Warden Mo Kee stood before them.
 At least we are in the hands of a soldier" exclaimed Captain Shipp, who had been in many a fight for the button in the lapel Of Warden Me | Kees' coat.
 Then. turning to his five fellow pris- oners, he said:
 Boys. it will be all right" | Warden Mckee has inaugurated methods of punishment at the iail as human as the various classes of prisr oners will allow and he was prepared for the reception of the six men from 1 Tennessee.
 l About a year ago, during the impris- onment of an unusually large number | of women, the warden had fitted uT a store room on the fourth floor of the jail as quarters for female prisoners It was in this large room, 9 by 3s feet. that he locked the six prisoners In the rooms were beds, one for each I Of the prisoners, while at one end oi the room was table upon which "trusties" will set the prisoners meals | three times day IA bathroom ad | joining will be used by the prisoners exclusively. Four large circular win dows open to the south and west giving excellent views of the front 1 buildings.
 In fact. so pleasant had the pris oners found the quarters that Capts9ir Shipp sent his attorney. Major Gift to the office of The supreme court tt withdraw a request made when sen tence was imposed to be sent to the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga, instead of the jail in this city During the afternoon the six men received calls from Tennesseeans and others. Sit ting on his straw bed, half reclining On his pillow of straw. Captain Shipr made this statement:
 We are very well plealsed with the treatment given us by Warden Me Kee and are delighted with the quar ters assigned us"
 A few hours in jail made Gibson Ireminiscent He told his companions that this WAS not the first time he had been a prisoner in Washington.
 But the other time I was brought here as Confederate prisoner" he Gaij