The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-26
OAKLAND SAMMY"
MUST STAND TRIAL
Bound Over to United States
Court of Northern Alabama.
YEGG REMANDED TO JAIL,

Was Among Prisoners Governor
Blease Paroled Last Thanks
giving.
Columbia Special to Charleston
News and Courier, Dec. 24.-Samuel
X. Williams, alias Oakland Sammy"
allas Samuel Raymond" was Mon
Gay morning bound over to the United
STATES district court for Northern
Alabama for trial on the charge of
blowing a postofice safe at Marion,
In that state, in 1901. United
States Commissioner r. BeverIv
Sloan fixed the bail of the yegg at
Sio,oOO and remanded him to iail
a1ter he was unable to secure bonds
men. He will be sent back to Mont
gomery, Ala, and will be placed on
trlal on January 8 before Federal
Judge Thomas G. Jones.
The preliminary hearing Monday
was attended by Postoffice Inspector
II. L. Gregory, who swore out the
warrant on which the yeggman was
arrested as he stepped from the state
penltentiary under parole from
Governor Blease, Assistant PostmaS-
ter IL. f. Irwin of Montgomery. Alo
j. II. Horne of Meridian. Miss whn
arrested the yegg at that place in
I?U2'and Postoftice Inspector b. r
DltS OF birmingham, Ala, who will
nave charge of the case from now ON
AGAINST the yeggman. They identi-
ned Williams and were witnesses fo,.
the government.
inspector Holiday, who is station
ed mere, dropped i'm during tbo trtai
but did not take any part i'm tbo raso
HIS OWN LAWYER.
Oakland Sammy" was brought
from the Rfchland county iail. where
ne mas been under heavy guard since
MS arrest when he stepped from Tho
state penitentiary under parole 10
mad no lawyer and when the warrant
was READ TO him charging him with
ToDblng a government postofico at
Marion, Ala, he demanded that tbo
statutes he read covering the case ond
Irled TO make the point that the war
rant was barred by the statute uf
lilltauon, but was overruled He
examined the Witnesses and conduct
eu ms own defense, displaying con-
siderable familiarity with the law.
AFTER the robbery of the postofTice
at MARION In 1901, Oakland SAMMY"
Heu towards the West, but the most
onlGe inspectors were hot on his trail
~, AZ ne was passing through Meridian
t"o.' on tTaln he was arrested in
Lhe yards by j. II. Horne, a police Of
hcer, assisted by Mr.. Hogabanm tbn,,
Delng on the lookout for him NJ
Horne handcuffed the prisoner IN hin,
ana TOOK him to Montgomery. Ala
ana placed him in Jail, from which
PIace ne escaped after few months
me assistant postmaster at Mont
sonlery, III. f. Irwin, visited the pris-
oner frequently and showed hin,
kihdnesses and he and Mr.. Horne
were here to identify him for the
government. 'he
Oakland Sammy" saved a.,
Ills ~ ms cell in the, Montgomerv jaii
o'9leu the jail fence, Went tbroI,'a,,,' I".i'
O"'' sot a drink and disappears =
ESCAPED BY FIRE,
nriSon1 Earnings and descriptions of tbe
prisoner were sent broadcast ona me ne
January 81, 1903. he was orres,,, '" GIl ,I
SSulhcy' Fla, for the AIabamo VII ,ii
10y, Out two days later made ~.
SSScdpe by firing the taiI. Tho M,
ne"'u OF The yeggman was who, ~
was arrested in Charleston on I1m,.
~ l9OS, by Policeman O'Connor fo,.
geIIihS INTO some difficulty at tLa
ChIoh station. On his way unto,,,,
ne dropped a box containinp Som
burglar tools and threw out bortIc
or ro-glycerine He was tried ana
convicted before Judge Prince onI
sentenced TO ten years and one noontb
IN the state penitentiary. He was so
lnSolent to the judge that he added
nNe more years and made the totoI
hiteen. During his trial Williams n!
most eiiected his ESCAPE from tho
/ charleston county Jail and had got
ten out OF his cell and hid i'm the loft
when discovered. En- route TO the
state penitentiary he told his guards
that he didn'e expect to serve more
than an average of one month for
each of the years he was sent up.
Williams was paroled by Governor
Rlease in the list of 1O5 prisoners to
whom clemency was given Thanks
giving. He was arrested as he walk
/ ed from the state penitentiary on a
warrant charging him with robbery
at Marion, Ala, and has been in the
/ Richland county jail ever since
awaiting trial. He has been under
the eye of a deputy day and night.
He will be sent back to Alabama bv
Marshal Adams and will be closely
guarded.
BEGAN IN 1898.
Williams criminal record began as
far back as 1898, when he was SEN
fenced go five years i'm the Missouri
state DonitCnt'ary on plea of guilty
90 q charge of burglary at Oregon. I'm
f'rt rtHtJ. While he was bpiug o. x ON