The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-19

presence in the street. She complained
10 the younger Miller. who raised a
crowd and started out TO lynch Curl.
In tho fight following. Curl shot Miller
and escaped. The day after his capture
and arrival at Memphis. he was being
taken back to mississippi by the offi-
GERS. and at Como the senior Miller, with
mob. boarded an Illinois Central pas
senger train and took Curl TO MastOdon.
where he was iynched. The sheriff
escaped official censure for relinqui,sh-
ing the negro through the technicality
OF the prisoner not having been Tor
.malIy turned over TO him by the Ten
nessee authorities.
An object Lesson
At Memphis Evans had an object les
son that turned the whole course OF his
intentions. Previous to that he had In
sisted on his innocence and his ability
10 Prov II when the trial came, and he
was intent on making his escape. either
before getting to New Orleans or after
The slightest opportunity 70 get away
would have been seized eagerly. At
Memphis, owing 70 the long stop, Mar
shall Anderson went to the city jail X
being a custom for officers en- route,
when delayed. to put their prisoners IN
a local jail for safe-keepfng rather than
iounginR around all day and putting on
Ia ndcuffs. The marshal took Evans
with him and let him Inspect the jail
without saying 20 the local officers that
Evans was a prisoner When the latter
saw the place. II terrified him. and he
begged tho marshal not to put MIN IN
there The iron and wooden cages IN
which the Memphis prisoners were con
fined constituted an awful bullpen-
The police explained that they were
ashamed Of the Jail. and had been for
years. but that the last Tennessee leg
isiature had authorized the Issuance OF
$3.50. 900 bonds. part Of the money 20 be
used for new prison. When the mar
shall looked at the JAN no mentally con-
cluded that he did not want to put
prisoner there. and then sit with him
for an all-night ride TO New orleans
the accession OF vcrmiu would nave
been sufficient TO infect whole car
load OF passengers
So Evans escaped the Memphis Jail
At New Orleans a local officer, In de-
scribing the jail at Baton Rouge, where
Evans would have had to remain seven
months awaiting trial in default OF ball
advised the marshal that IL was much
worse than Nemphis-that they had a
tender-skinncd prisoner there whose
clothing was changed every six hours,
TIL his body looked like bad case OF
smallpox from the vermin IN the JAN
at Baton Rouge.
Evans overheard the conversation,
and Immediately thereafter notified
Marshal Anderson that he would rather
spend five years IN the federal peni-
Tertiary AZ Atlanta. Ca. than seven
months IN the Baton Rouge prison He
had seen the interior OF the penitentary
at Leavenworth. that Il was clean and
well kept, and had been informed there
that the Atlanta federal prison was
equally well conducted.
United States Marshal Victor Loisei
OF New Orleans was then consulted He
told Evans he was going to send some
prisoners to Atlanta in couple Of days,
and n he wished to plead guilty to the
| Indictment which was likely to come
from the grand jury in his case that
day. he would hC5d the other prisoners.
Evans Immediately said he wanted TO
plead Euilty-he had seen enough AZ
Memphis: and he did 50 plead on the
afternoon Of Monday. the 18th. couple
OF hours after his arrival at New Or
leans. Regarding the LeavenwOrth
Denitentiary. he said he would rather
serve a year there than dodge officers
n bout the country the way he had done
/ the past three years
/ on the way down from Memphis Ev-
ans told career OF swindhnB
that sounded like a fairy tale OF fl
nance. one instance he related was
how he and two companions got S15,-
200 from R l. Riggs. a Mississippi bank
Ior. Ia two days at the race track An
Iothcr incident was when he got out OF
Memphis with $4,000 in cash belong
ing to other men In the case which
lcaused his undOing he swindled about
fifty OF the leading southern news
papers out Of more than 81, 900 in ad-
lvertising. lie was at Meridien- Miss,
with only a little change left-Just
4 on a train headed for New Orleans. He
said he stalled" the conductor the re-
ImaIuder Of the journey by making him
believe he had presented a ticket for
New Orleans. and that the con" had
linked things I'D. In the big Louisiana
lefty he borrowed $40 from the hotel
where he put up in $500 day
room.
/ He had conceived the idea Of doing
a whisky mail order business in the
InefghhorinE prohibition states. without
the whisky. He sent TO each Of more
than SO leading papers, as far north
as Cincinnati and St Louis. a quarter
page advertisement. to be published
on Sunday morning. January S, adver-
ItfsinE that .. G. Bailey & Co would
send u quarts OF standard whisky for
IS- The letter to the newspapers also
Icontained' o. G Bailey & Co.'S check
for the advertisement. and was so
timed as to reach the newspaper Of
flee on Saturday. too late for inquiry.
Nearly all the papers published the
.ad and deposited the checks. which
later were found 70 be worthless. But
a newspaper in New Orleans uncovered
THE scheme.
i No Such Firm
I A reporter happened 20 know that at
1.-THE address given for o. G. Bailey &
Co. in a Mississippi paper which had
published the advertisement there was
; no such firm. He Investigated and ex-
posed the fraud in an afternoon paper
OF January 10. Evans saw IL. and took