The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-19
Three Men Resist Officers in
Hooking Valley Yards.
WASHAM TO Be RELEASED
His Brother From Jackson,
Ohio Pays Fine.
Robbers In IIdrking Valley Yards
Laugh at Oniccrs-Colored Man
Thought 10 be Wanted by Column
mus Police Arrestcd-t'orger Lo-
Gated In BeIlcfontainc.

TO threaten the life of an officer,
to denounce the law and to recall
cases in which officers of the law
had been shot down and the murder
er had gone free is a brave or rather
foolhardy thing to do when caught in
the act of committing crime and
when a six-shooter revolver is I'm di-
rect line with persons head, yet
three coal thieves accomplished these
things and two of them escaped last
night i'm the Hooking Valley yards.
A coal train pulled in the yards and
was Immediately boarded by three
men whose intentions were to obtain
sufficient fuel for the winter, as they
began to unload coal by the wagon
load. A brakeman frightened tho
robbers away from their work and
| they ran down the tracks to Colum-
| bia street where they were intercepted
] By Special Officers w. NJ. Skenyon
and G. l.. Freeman, who ordered them
| to stop. one of the men whose name
| Is Royal Lowery, a former section
| boss of the Hooking Valley, was
seized by the officers. The other two
picked up bricks, threatening the
| lives of the officers, defying the Of
| ncers to arrest them and reminding
| them of what happened to Hostctter
| Skenyon and Freeman say they did
not shoot because of the petty ma
ture of the crime the men had COM
| mitted, but were astonished to find
that such deplorable condition Of
affairs should exist in Marion. The
| two men whose names could not be
| learned, deliberately walked away
scoffing at the officers who have not
the law to back them in the perform
ance Of their duty.
The officers wonder this morning
how they refrained fron shooting
when the men manifested their utter
disregard for the law and its officers
| Lowery was taken to the police sta
ton charged with petty larceny and
resisting an officer. He refused to
disclose the identity Of his confed-
crates. Attorney Hoke Donithen
will represent the defendant and
| Scofeld and Durfec will conduct the
prosecution for the railroad.
A negro who gave his name as jim
Sparks and who answered to the
| description of the man alleged TO
have killed Mrs. Alice Griffis at
1 Chaseland, Ohio. last Tuesday night
was arrested last night. The man
wore a cap blue overalls, white can
vas gloves and sweater coat. He
was taken to the police station and
the authorities at Columbus were no.
tilted. They informed the local po-
lice that the colorcd man was not
wanted but gave no reasons why he
should not be held. Sparks had
tramped I'm from Pittsburg and was
purchasing ticket for Cincinnati
when noticed by the police. He was
released and allowed to continue his
tourney.
| David Washam. who was taken TIA
the Columbus workhouse 10 work out
n fine Of Sl79.35 imposed by the may
or after he had been found guilty OF
selling intoxicating liquors, is to be
| released. w. r.. Washam, of jack
son, Ohio, a brother of the prisoner
came to Marion yesterday. paid MS
brothers fine and was furnished with
certificate of release by the mayor
He Immediately left for Columbus.
David Temple, who Is wanted III
this city for forging checks has been
arrested I'm Bellefontaine for the same
onense and is being held for the
meeting of the grand jury after
which he will be brought to Marion
and tried here. Temple passed out
bogus checks to Uhler g. Phillips, G
Rosenberg j. B. Layton and other
husiness men about town.
GREAT NORTHERN