Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-11-17
|FD SHERIFF BRAVELY
hEARS COURTS SENTENCE
y Tennessee Official Declared in Contempt Of
SuOreme Court Must Serve 90 Days.

history of the Supreme Court Of the
United States that that august body
had imposed sentence upon citizens,
held guilty of disregarding its man
dates, The previous occasion was in
another generation.
Heading the little group of six men,
found guilty of contempt, as they
took their places before the black
robed justices. was Capt. shipp, the
sheriff in Chattanooga, Tenn, when
he offended the court. His tall
straight figure, his scanned face and
his gray-streaked beard, told of his
long service in the army of the Con.
federacy.
Bowed down under his IS years,
jeremiah Gibson, the jailer stood
with him. With bedimed eyes he
looked upon the long white locks OF
the chief justice, himself 76 years of
age. who would soon pronounce
sentence upon him, and send him TO
prison. He and Capt Ship had been
found guilty OF failing to protect a
negro, waiting TO be hanged on
charge of heinous crime against a
white woman. after he Supreme
Court OF the United States had stayed
his execution.
shlpp Brave In Court.
The contempt case was taken up
yesterday as soon as the Justices TOOK
their places in the court room. Solicit.
tor Bowers Of the Department Of Jus
tice, upon receiving a nod OF reoognl-
ton from Chief Justice Fuller, called
tae attention of the court to the fact
that the defendants were In court In
response to It's order and suggested
that the court impose sentence.
The chief justice directed Chief
Clerk McKenney to call the defend
ants before the bar As the names
OF the six men, the sheriff. the ialler.
the four men charged with having
been members OF the mob that took
lJohnson's life, rang through the H.
tie court room a stiffness as OF death
settled over ALL From each defend
ant came the solitary word present.
THEY then stood up for sentence
Chief Justice Fuller then read the
sentences.
Sheriff Ship took the sentence
more calmly than the others AZ
ter the chief justice had concluded
he walked over to Martial Wright
and asked him where this officer o.
the court wanted him 70 90.
Tears came 70 Padgetts eyes and
he used his handkerchief freely VII
Hams sat down as n exhausted When
Attorney Chamlee asked that h''
client be sent TO Atlanta. lie remain
cd sitting until AttorHeys C.'h and
shepperd made similar requests TOT
the other deieadauts The marsha
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the District Of Columbia ~ lake th'
men to iail
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