Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-13

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legal papers, and will return home tC
morrow. Sheriff Grimes arrived !
the city this morning and will visi
here with relative Mrs. Ethel Legge
SOL West Second street. previous t
returning home to Sigourney thi
evening.
Grimes Tells of Mob.
"a crowd of several thousand Bur
lington people had gathered aroun'
the Union station, and the ominou
muttering that arose when the patro
wagon drew up BODIED i'll for Junkin,
says Sheriff Grimes. THE mob press
ed close to the wagon, and Junkin
shivering with fear crouched in thu
bottom of the wagon. The officer:
drew their clubs and, forming cor
don around the trembling wretch, ht
was led to the train along the soutl
side of the building. The crowt
blocked the officers, the more daring
members of the mob striking anc
pushing to reach the negro.
"One burly rough had almost seizet
the negro when Chief Hiltz shot ou
his arm and knocked the man down
The affair took on threatening tinge
and Officer Hencilman pulled out his
gun and poked it in the face of the
pressing crowd Striking right ant
left with their heavy hickory clubs the
officers finally succeeded in reaching
the train with Junkin.
Rock Crashes Window.
Jackson and myself led Junllin into
the smoking car, followed by the Bur
4 lington officers. Junkin was placed
in a seat On the east side Of the cal
up in front He had just taken his
seat when a heavy rock crashed
through the window. hurled by some
person in the crowd outside. The
glass was shattered and the missile
narrowly escaped striking the negro
| Sheriff Jackson decided that the posi-
ton offered too many chances fol-
further attacks, and Junkin was re
moved to the baggage car.
The negro expressed his desire to
| reach Fort Madison, where he will be
safe behind the grim walls of the big
prison. A few minutes after the oil
GERS arrived at the depot with Junkin
the train pulled out for the south
Junkin was sweating with terror,
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He skunk in corner of the baggage
car and buried his head in his hands
Then looking UP at the officers sur
rounding him, the frightened negro
begged us to remain with him. Don t
leave me, boss; don't go away the
negro muttered.
Placed in the Prison.
cat our request Chief Hiltz and
Captain Mahaney accompanied us to
Fort Madison. Arrangements had
been made with the railroad company
to have the train stopped near the
prison. Warden Sanders had been no.
tilted and had strong force of prison
guards in waiting. When the train
stopped we hustled Junkin from the
baggage car and with the guards sur
rounding the prisoner, Junkin was
hurried behind the stone walls of the
Denitentiary. He was placed in a
cell, and will remain there until the
Ottumwa authorities decide what the
next course of action will be. We
stayed on the train, until it arrived
at the Fort Madison depot An i'm
mense crowd had gathered and in or.
der to draw the mob away from the
prison Chief of Police Kennedy had a
! carriage waiting at the depot, to
cause the crowd to believe that Jun,
. kin would be taken from the train
there. Had the negro been taken off
the train at the depot the chances are
he would have Jared badly
Condemns Papers and Jackson
What did you do with the girls
pocketbook that Fred Rosen went tc
see you about at Sigourney?' was one
question put to Junkin in the Burling
ton Jail yesterday.
! Il don't know nothins about any
pocketbook; l tell you it will all come
out in the trial. The newspaper has
done me more harm than. anybody
else. They have printed all kinds OF
! stories about me, and l don't know
where they got them. That Sheriff
/ Jackson Of Ottumwa, he didn't do the
square thing by me- When they came
after me in the Jail at Des Moines the
other night, asked 'em where they
was goin' to take me, and they said tc
FIT. Madison. l told them l wouldn't
go back to Ottumwa alive and they
said they would take me back there
J and then Sheriff Jackson took me
down to Sigourney and told everybody
along the line that was on the train
They said there was two car loads OF
people comm over to Sigourney to gel
me last night, and Sheriff Grimes he
| just loads me up and we drives over tc
Harper, where we gets hand car ant
comes to Washington this morning
III be mighty glad when get to the
penitentiary.'
Junkin was taken upstairs later anG
locked in cage. Sitting on a bench
in the cell he talked through the bars
to a group outside. He told of the
night Clara Rosen was foully mur
| dered and in all Of his rambling talk