Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-05
MADE LONG, BARBER, INDICTED
IN KENTUCKY, WILL FIGHT
EXTRACTION.
WANTED FOR FORGERY;
ALLEGES FUED CAUSE
Long, Once Member Of Governor
Goebei's Guards, Hires an Attorney
to Keep Him From Being Returned
to Knox County, Kentucky, Strong
hold Of Taylor Faction.

back to wreak vengeance that was the
product of the factional warfare that
assassinated Governor Goebel and sent
Caleb Powers Ito the penitentiary
dozen years ago, Made Long, a barber
of this city, and participant in those
feudal events, has sought the district
! court and Governor Clarke for protec-
| ton. Long fears extradition.
; For the present he Is safe. Judge
Cummins this forenoon ordered a writ
of habeas corpus to be issued to pro-
| duce Long before him Oct. 16. at 9
| o'clock. for hearing. Long has posted
a bond of 5000 that he will be there
His attorney, F. E. Northup, has writ
| ten Governor Clarke to notify him If
! application is made to extradite Long
| to Kentucky. The attorney expects to
| resist, as long as resistance is possible,
every effort to remove his client from
Iowa.
Indicted For Forgery.
Why does Long fear extradition?
gerry in the circuit court of Knox
county, Kentucky. He knows Knox
| county, in the Cumberland mountains,
'~'-n whence came Taylors Guards, or
ganized to protect Governor Taylor in
the days of the feud. AS an armed
! guard of officers-elect, including Gov
ernor Goebel, Long was a member of
! the Beckham Guards, who protected
the lives OF the officers elect. These
guards were the two armed forces of
the rival factions.
With the vivid memory OF the feud
and Of the old hates that have not died,
Long breads the thought Of being re-
| turned q prisoner into the camp of his
former enemies.
Believes Pay 10 involved.
Neither Long nor his attorney knows
what is behind the indictment. 1t says
| forgery. Long is positive that it has
| to do with the assignments Of pay Of
| members of Taylor's Guards that he
procured in Knox county after the feud
had given way to quieter times. His
belief 10 based on the conviction that
it Is the assignments that are behind
the charge, for to get them were the
! only times he ever was in Knox county
All this and more Is set in the appli-
cation for the writ Of habeas corpus
that his attorney filed late Monday in
Il e district court. In 1t is given the
! reasons why Long fears to be returned
to kentucky.
Police Hold Warrant.
Action was precipitated Monday
| when Chief of Police Breckel received
from Knox county. Kentucky. bench
| warrant issued by w. H. Mcdonald,
clerk Of the circuit court, in which he
| was commanded to arrest Long on
charge Of forgery, an Indictment hav-
ing been returned there. Long was
tentatively placed under arrest. but
allowed his liberty after posting bond
on a charge Of being a fugitive from
justice. Then his attorney began to
take steps to prevent further proceed
ings. Chief of Police Breckel notified
the Knox county clerk by telegraph.
but had not received reply up to
noon.
The application for the writ Of ma
beas corpus is directed against Chief
Of Police Breckel Sheriff Edgar, and
one John Doe' described as IAN off,
Ger Of Knox county. Kentucky. and a
special officer Of Kentucky" who may
come for Long.
Was cosbsi Adhersnt.
The application recites that Long
was a supporter Of Governor Goebel
and member of his guard called the
Beckham Guards. There was another
military organization called Taylor's
Guards and, says the petition. "the
feeli1 & between said factions wa. then
tense and has not much improved dur
ing the intervening years"
Regarding the probable grounds for
the forgery Indictment the petition
|
fort attorneys. who had undertaken to
cured from certain persons assignments
of their wages for value and afterwards
collected the wages.
"Such assignments" the petition
says, were executed In the presence
Of witnesses" In three instances.
! Long. the petition goes on. went to
Knox county and obtained assignments
of wages Of men known as Taylor's
Guards.
Identity Now impossible.
This was eight years ago. Long
does not now remember the names nor
could ne identify the persons or the
witnesses from whom he got assign
ments or who witnessed the signatures
Of the assignees. the petition recites.
! At first Long said he would go back
to Kentucky when told by the chief of
police, that he had been indicted. But"
says the application. upon ascertain
Ing that he was about to be taken
to Knox county, Kentucky, dis
lance of more than 200 miles from
his former home and friends, to
. territory in which he ID a total
stranger and which 10 hostile to
this plaintiff and the cause in which he
participated many years ago. he verify
believes that should he be surrendered
to the officers Of said county and be
placed on trial In Knox county that he
would not obtain fair and importial
/ trial and that he would be denied q
change Of venue to any other jurisdic-
tion where conditions would be better,
and that he believes that such course
would place him in position of ex-
treme bodily violence"
Has Not Been Fugitive.
The petition goes on to show that
Lone 10 barber. has a shop at 323
South Third avenue, home at PA
South Second avenue, family in addi-
tion, that It would now be impossible