The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-08-12

from Turpentine Land wants
Damages from Somebody
for His Injured Feelings.
The following which is taken from
the Norfolk Virginian-PiiOt of July
| 22nd, will be read with something OF
| local interest as we'll as amusement.
| Mr.. Jones who is IL Warren county
man, is known to many people IN
| Henderson where he has q number OF
relatives living The story is not
without it's humorous side and while it
was mo joke" to Mr.. Jones to be ar
rested and locked up for another man,
his experience will furnish many a
| good laugh for his friends. Here is
the story as the Eirginian-PilOt tells
it:
When G. Fl. Jones, who is six feet,
ten inches up in the air. goes back
to his Warren county, North Caro-
| lima, home, he will have an experience
to tell the natives about that is out
of the ordinary run of happenings i'll
Il summer vacation. for Jones re-
| posed his near seven feet OF form iii IL
cell at the navy yard lookup Tues
day night and wore shackleS to
breakfast yesterday morning before
an examination by the surgeon
aboard the U. S. S. Franklin proved
| that he is not B. H. LOckhart, who
| is wanted for deserving from the SER
vice.
Jones is an easy man to find in a
| crowd and when the Navy Depart
| ment sent out Il circular some time
back describing LOckhart it put the
missing mans height down at six
feet, seven inches. Which is also up
| in the air some.
Just about this time, and entirely
unconscious of the trouble that the
fates had in store for him, Jones WIS
looking over railway schedules and
resort advertisements trying to find
place to cool the length of his anat-
Omy during the annual vacation that
WAS coming his way. And he picked
Norfolk and Ocean View.
There is reward Of 500 paid for
| the return of a deserter to the navy
yard and this blood money is Gag
erly sought by some private detec-
tives SO when the LOckhart circu-
lar came out the "Hawkshaws" put
it down in their craniums to keep an
eye out for a man that could stand
up beside IA six foot fence and look
over it.
One Of them spied Jones at Ocean
View Tuesday night while the tall
pine from turpentine land was care
fully picking his way across the lawn
in an effort to keep from stepping On
less altitudinous people.
"Ha, ha! IT'S my mann' the sleuth
| uttered between clinched teeth and
he forthwith reached up and tapped
the CarOlinian on the wrist. telling
him at the same time:
You are wanted at head quar-
ters."
"Huh?' said Jones.
''There's no use trying to run a
bluff on me, Lockhart. You've got
to go with me. I've been looking for
you said the detective.
"Huh?" said Jones, as he stopped
over to get a look at the plain
clothes man.
Then it was the seeker for desert
ers and twenty dollars unfOlded the
description of Lockhart and read it
to make sure. The height convinced
him, for when one gets up into the
seven feet a little difference of three
inches is scarcely noticeable. SO Ber-
ger of the Dozier Detective Agency
flashed his badge and told the tall
one to come on
Jones began to compreht nd that
he had been apprehendtd, and enter
ed II vigorous denial of the charge
that he had jumped ship. But Ber-
ger was lnslstent, SO to the navy
yard they went. 1t was rather late
at night when the short. bOw-lpgged
Berger and the tall and lofty Jones
reached Uncle Samuel's naval sta
ton. The officer who had charo. of
the measurements and descriptions
OF enlisted men who had skipped was
snoring and etiquette forbade that
he be disturbed. Jones told the Off
Ger Oh duty that he had never been
enlisted much less deserted, and the
officer asked the detective what he
would do if it proved to be a case of
mistaken identity. This question,
Jones says, Berger answered by the
statement:
They can't do anything with me
| if he doesn' work"
Then told them, said Jones last
night, that | did work, but was Oh,
my vacation. Then they marched me
Off the Franklin and locked me up
and when it was breakfast time they
shackled me to u real deserter nnd
marched me to breakfasts
After the morning meal Jones was
carried before the examining surgeon
and the first identification marks
on Lockhart's sheet were two sears
on the left forefinger. Jones had the