The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-09-12
|VFR RESISTS EXTRACTION
pr,s CORPUS HEARING AT
,piANY is CONTINUED.

p,oo That Important Papers From
,,n+, Had Not Arrived divers
,ttorneys Get Postponement.
rpANY. Ga.-Seeking to keep
- the clutches of the Mississippi
,orities L. C. Harding, alias A. D.
or the Climax bank wrecker,
was released early Tuesday
ming from the Lee county chain
where he had been serving a
.r,vear sentence on the charge of
my from Decatur county, filed
s.os corpus proceedings before
4 3ge CLAYTON Jones of the city court
s lIbary Yesterday, and the hearing
GOT for - o'clock Wednesday.
,r,on the case was called attorneys
tho prisoner asked another con-
,once on tie ground that import
ooners in the possession of Sec
.,rv Him. in Governor Slaton's Of
o+ Atlanta. had not arrived, al
ongb they had been telegraphed for
4 order of the court here. Judge
MO agreed to a continuance and
tho hearing for IL o'clock Thurs
o.
4 The babeas corpus proceeding was
-acted against the Mississippi off,
IDENTITY Sheriff S. H. Crosby
Il ev-Sberiff T. o. Jones, of Aber-
so Miss, who claim Oliver is an
,.nod prisoner from that state.
or came with requisition and other
ners TO secure possession of the
.isonpr from the Lee county con-
Ii warden. but found upon arrival
j Lee county that Deputy United
- Marshal w. S. Tarver was
ORC also for the same purpose. Dep
Marshal Tarver was the first to
his hands on the prisoner as the
tter stepped down from the convict
oe and oliver was very well con-
hi IN remain in the federal officers
Meodv rather than in charge of the
Aississippi officers.
All Go to Albany.
q The entire party came to Albany,
here Oliver was placed in the
bougherty county Jail, still in the
bstody of the United States authori-
es Tuesday afternoon hearing
i the case was held before United
Me- Commissioner Cruger West
hook to determine whether or not
IN prisoner should be turned over
4 federal authorities in the north
En- district of Alabama, where ne
las under indictment for alleged VIC
Atons of the postal laws. Harding,
#ias Oliver. was plainly anxious that
#s be done, no doubt feeling that
a stood a much better chance to es-
be the penitentiary there than ne
sould in Mississippi where he was
hready under sentence to serve three
bars for obtaining money under
8lse pretenses when he broke jail at
zberdeen. Ex-Sheriff Jones, who
ssme here to identify him at the time
4 was tried for bigamy, in connec-
On with his various Climax opera
IONS, was the sheriff in charge of the
sil at that time. He says that when
II came to Georgia to identify Oliver
Il the time he was being tried here
b latter pretended never to have
Pen hin, and has never to this day
limited to being the same man VINO
Rcaped from the Mississippi jail. He
slSO at the time of his trial denied
sFer having seen the woman VINO
Rentifed him as her husband, claim
p to be mis- first wife, saying it must
Fave been his twin brother who had
Rarried her,
IN a statement to a reporter Tues
r. Oliver said: They never were
st,e to indict me for anything l did
Il Climax except that trumped-up
Hgamy charge
Turned Over to State.
j At the hearing before Commission
4 Westbrook Tuesday afternoon,
FIegram received by United States
faTShal Davis from the federal judge
III district attorney at Birmingham,
1la' directing him to turn over the
Honer to the Mississippi authorl-
IT, was read. In view of these in
S'uctions Commissioner Westbrook
|Smlssed the case, and the prisoner
las Immediately taken in charge by
perm c. c. Barbre of DougheTty
Punty, pending the outcome of the
|'Oeds corpus proceedings which hau
gen hled by the prisoner attorneys,
| W. Walters and H. A. Peacock, of
IIbany.
from the United States marshals
nee in the government building,
mere the hearing was held, the en-
pc party repaired to the county
puft house, where the habeas cor
u' proceedings had been set for
eaflng at ) o'clock by Judge Clay
n Jones. The prisoners attorneys
Phed for short time in which to pre-
pre- their case, saying they had had
\ opportunity to do so. Import