The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1922-07-22
DOUBLE KILLING
IN JACKSON JAIL
Condemned Prisoner MortalIy
Wounds Jailer and is Him.
self Killed.

The Clarion-Ledger reported tn,
double killing in the Kinds county
Jail at Jackson as follows:-
Russell Harris, Kinds county Jail
er, with a bullet thru his chest, kill
ed Henry Bond, under sentence o.
death for murder, in an attempt tc
escape from the Kinds county jai
and himself died ten minutes later
in the sheriff's office.
Following the shooting Mr.. Har.
ris carefully locked the door of the
death cell, descended the steps, lock.
ed the front door and made his way
up to the office of Sheriff Williams
in the county court house.
II killed Bond, got his gun and
locked everything up; call DIR. Ham.
ilton," he said as he lay upon the
table. He died before medical as
sistance could be summoned.
Bond was desperate criminal and
under death sentence to hang Friday
for the murder of two prohibition Of
ficers in Greene county in April
1921. He had been granted a re-
prieve until the recent meeting OF
the state board of pardons where his
plea was rejected.
He was one of the three moonshin-
ers convicted for murder of Prohi-
bition officer Jacob Green and Mar
shall ]. F. Dunham, of Richton in a
raid of still near that place. John
Adams, another of the trio is serv-
ing a life sentence for the murder,
while Nancy Kelly the last of the
group, cut his own throat in the jail
at Leakesville as the sheriff and his
men entered the hall to take him out
to be hanged.
Jailer Harris was the son of John
T. Harris. night watchman at the
capitol for years, who killed himself
a few months ago. He has been Jail
er of Kinds county for ten years,
under Sheriffs Middleton, Wells and
Williams. Prior to that he was a
member of the local police force and
has always had the reputation of be-
Ing a Splendld Ofncer.
Several days ago Mr.. Harris was
in the little corner grocery store
near the Jail, where he often buys
supplies for the prisoners, and was
in conversation with Mr.. Davis, pro-
prietor of the store. Mr.. Davis ex-
postulated with the jailer about his
unusual kindness to the prisoners
and his confidence in their good be-
havior.
"One of those fellows is going
to kill you one of these days, if you
don't be more careful" protested Mr..
Davis.
That's all right" responded the
jailer, eff he does, all l hope is that
get him."
Mr.. Harris had been very active in
seeking a Communication of sentence
for Bond. He approached a number
of prominent citizens with the re-
quest that they use their influence
to save him from the gallows. He
often expressed his hope that Bond
would escape the death penalty, in
conversation with the Clarion-Led-
ger reporter a few days ago he re-
counted the details of the battle in
Greene county when two prohibition
officers were killed and said that he
thought Bond should be granted a
communication to life Imprisonment.
The small revolver with which
Bond killed Jailer Harris is suppos-
ed to have been given him yesterday
morning when he was visited by his
wife, brother, sister, brother-in-law,
and his little girl. Mr.. Harris con-
Quoted the visitors to the death cell
which occupies the south side of the
third floor, where they remained in
conversation with Bond for the al
lotted time. 1t is not known wheth-
er they were searched before being
allowed to see the prisoner.
The number of the car containing
the party from Greene county was
ascertained within a few minutes af-
ter the tragedy and two cars of Of
ficers with Chief of Police Hiram
Hughes in charge, began search of
the roads leading out of the city to-
ward Hattiesburg, it being supposed
that they would go in that direction.
FOUR BROTHERS STAINED WITH
BLOOD.
A dispatch from Purvis states that
the preliminary trial of Everett
Bond, slayer of Vardie Whidon, has
been set for July oath at that place
Bond is younger brother of Hen
ry Bond, the condemned murderer
who assassinated Russ Harris, Hinds
county jailer, in Jackson on Tuesday
afternoon, and was shot to death by
the jailer. Everett Bond killed
Whiddon>at a country dance about
two weeks ago, and his trial follows
three days after the date set for the
hanging of Henry Bond in the jail
yard at Leakesville.
Another member of this family oi
desperadoes, younger brother, was
killed several months ago by an Of
ficer at Hattiesburg, while resisting
arrest, and Isaac Bond, also broth,
er, is in the custody of the Hindi
county authorities charged with com
plicity in the assassination of Jailel
Harris.
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