The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-31
Tennessee Sheriff Arrives
and Tomorrow Will Face
Supreme Court.
FIVE COMPANIONS
ACCOMPANYING HIM
All Held Guilty of Charge of Con.
tempt of Highest
Tribunal.

Col. J. F. Ship. sheriff Of Hamilton
county, Tenn, accompanied by Deputy
Sheriff jeremiah Gibson, and four other
residents of their home town, Chatta-
nooga, arrived in Washington this
morning accompanied by United
States marshal, to answer to the sum
mons Of the Supreme Court of the
United States, which has adiudged them
guilty Of contempt toward that body,
and to be sentenced.
Tomorrow morning they viii appear in
the Supreme Court. and hear sentence
pronounced upon them for alleged con-
spiracy and participation in the lynch
ing OF a negro after the highest court
in the land had ordered that all pro-
ceedings against the prisoner be stayed
Captain Shipp, who was soldier Of
the Confederate Army, reached TINS
Capital Of the Nation when 1t was alive
with the noise of the celebrants or
Memorial Day.
Attorney With Him.
With Sheriff Shipp came NJ. II. Gift.
his attorney, who will appear with him
before the Supreme Court tomorrow
at noon: and Luther Williams. Jerry
Gibson. William Mayo. Nick Nolan and
Henry Padgett. the five men who have
been convicted also by the Supreme
Court
United states Marshal W. A. Dunlap
OF Knoxville, Tenn, IN whose CUSTODY
the six men have been placed, came
with them. Through the crowds OF the
Memorial Day observers the sheriff and
former soldier with his I'VE companions,
his lawyer and Mr- Dunlap, moved
slowly to the street and then drove 10
the Metropolitan Hotel
When a reporter called to see Sheriff
Shipp this morning, he found no guard
at he enforced
stay there Mr.. Ship, his coat on,
with writing paper on table IN fIonl
of him, seemed just as unc0ncerned as
might any other guest OF the motel
His greeting was kindly and no matter
what the supreme Court says tomorrow
Sheriff ]. r. Shipp. the former COnfed-
crate soldier. evidently IS not afraid
Nothing to Say.
II can't say anything" he remarked
as he waved his visitor to a chair, owe
have decided that it is best TO say moth
ing about the case at all. We are al
here, we viii appear tomorrow, at noon
believe, before the Supreme Court tC
receive sentence
Sheriff Shipp might be called a typiea
Southerner He is tail, and almost thin
his hair is gray and still rather plenu
ful. He wears sideburnss a mustach'
and a small gOatee. His eyes are deeI
blue and very plainly not the kind tina
belong to a man who fears anything
The scene in the Supreme Court room
tomorrow viii be most unusual and I'M
pressive.
Will Appear Tomorrow.
Immediately after the justices have
taken their. seats, Marshal Wright vii
march the prisoners into the cour
room tomorrow morning, where the!
will remain standing while the clerl
reads the charges against them. and tn
prisoners will be formally charged viii
entering into a conspiracy TO permit an,
10 participate In the lynching Of John
son. The United States Court refuses
10 grant a writ of habeas corpus, ant
on March Il, three days before the dat
set for the execution OF johnson, an ar
plication was made 10 Justice Harlan
Of the United States Supreme Court. 70
an appeal from the order of the circui
court.
The request was granted and two day
later an order was made BY the Supren
Court directing that ali proceeding
against Johnson be STAYED pending a.
appeal That night q mob surToun6e
the jail, seized the prisoner. bound hin
and then took him 10 the county bridg
over the Tennessee river, about ST
blocks from the jail and strung him uT
The rope broke before life was eXtinc
and Johnson fell TO the ground. He wa
strung up again. and 10 make sure o
the job his body was riddled wit
bullets
The Department Of Justice immediate
" began an investigation and proceed
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