| Show i NINETY DAYS IMPRISONMENT U S Supreme Court Imposes Sentence on Shipp I For Contempt CASE WAS ALMOST UNIQUE ami I Out OIlS of J l II i Vho Mail lad I T 1 Ii toil ri N w ov v IJ Ninety days daTil imprisonment wa wn I wl today former t Sheriff Jot Joseph JOM ph 11 H Sharp of lC Ch Ten Tenn T nn by the Ute court of the United SUl a for CUr con On contempt contempt tempt of oC ourt court In to prevent the tha lynching of ot n I n sn Bd ltd J OlIn oon of ault whose whoM execution et Uon had been stayed by b the court rouM anu l Nick SIck Nolan ere re sentenced to 10 Imprisonment for tor 90 M days daYI for tor connection with the lynching and Jeremiah Je the jailer belier Henry Padgett Algell P and William Mayer Ia all of or for tor M 10 days day d as his r Jut tic Fuller rt designated the United State Jail In the Ih District ot Ut Columbia as a a the of or ment Attorneys for tor the asked on account count 9 f the Ills ditTo In that tim tho federal tede ral At At ot Atlanta lanta tents be substituted h To this Ihl AllOn ob oh Je nay saying ing the Iho th Atlanta prison for long term torm prisoners and that SilaS the local Jail was much more mort suited fl for forthe forth forthe the th present nt purpose The court took look the request under tInder ad and Nolan were sentenced to 10 99 90 days and Gibson Padgett and Mayors to 60 Go 0 day deys This Th WaLI Ta ra the second time tInt In the tue Ills his history I tory tury of or the tho supreme court of ot U Ule Uie e United States that that august body had ho putted posed a 1 upon held Iteld guilty of Its The PreVIOUS occasion X was wan In another generation tion TIlE THE Heading the tho little croup group of or six siz m foumia guty of or t as lII they tho tonk lok to lre too nl d dju ju was LUIt apt Joseph II 11 n III in a Tenn iw lie o on tao taD court Jiw tall tail sti his hie hi taCt lace and his hi gray b beard of his hip Ion service in me toe of at the In n under tInder his h Ii 5 yearn Jere me tOe oj w with n mm turn With bedimmed eyes ejes II he looked upon the long iong t nIle Cite tocas Ot of the tte In chief j 76 II c years of ot use uge a who would i upon him per bane onil him to 10 0 int ji ii ai l V tapI had been guilty of C lOg Ing to a e n waiting to 10 b be hanged on un a Ii charge chargo of ot a II heinous a 1 white whit woman after ter the tha en au u feme l court of ot f the tl United States had hadI I I stayed I la d his hla Luther Luth r Williams Nick Ick Nolan NollIn Henry Heny J and aud William Major or t found guilty of or par participation la In the Iho of at Sd cI l John Jolln Johnson son tormod tile the test lest of at the group He Ue fore tore them theft oil nil sat eat the lItI of the department of justice Around about thorn thou In III the Ih little were their attorneys and other otho lawyers while willie tha three ru rows ruwa j of ot seats for tor spectators were o crowded WITHOUT PURCE DE T The p c were we In 1876 John Chiles a business man of ot Texas was nag a brought before the court urt for tor contempt In oon with dealing In Ia Texas Indemnity nit 1111 bond boud contrary to an all order of lit Us tb He lie was aas as fined itO Hut that Instance lacked the Interest Interact of ot th thease case ease today tada In It were involved no race I lon no no Intel Yol Ut stats state ta I only the he I ma of JI Hie Ste law Ian as aa Interpreted by the th nt COOlS of at the load hand lh 1 lbs b due cite today y originated in the courts decision df In March I h l I i to con On r the appeal ap of from froma a of ot the TeRn courts court hold hoW holdin in lag r hIm III and him lo to lobe tobe sobe be lIm d on a charge of or ull The Tile after the determination of It th Ih supreme flun court to review rein the U p Ing sc m wired to 10 Chattanooga a fl mob mui th the jail took tools the tite th out sad lynched him The CoorS ua as u Incensed b by the athing I and nd at It lt instance the th at y general instituted pi against Int Jailor Gibson sad and 25 other supposed to have h been wn Im Implicated In ill the lynching charging barging them th l with contempt of lit the accused acu se xo sad aad In the end only six Ix were found guilt The Th finding of ot the II court urt was we an aft noun ed In iii W just Juet before 0 th Ih the cl close CioN M of 01 last lait term of ot court but all 11 I th t the defendants entered motions motion for or rehear hw Inc luj which had the effect of or action until this thu tall tail On Ne SO 1 I I i re Ii hearing oss as a denied and the six Ix men u orI 01 red before the thu court for tor sentence ti t 11 I CASK IN In InvestigatIng the ease caa tie tl IL au n court found round that Johnson Johll sas s removed from Ireta Chattanooga to SAsh Nash yule his hIe hi trial br of ot If fear that he h would be lynched lie He was a brought back for tor the leal lesI execution then hen the supreme stayed s th t the h execution Jt the held p mati no effort and ami gave geva no ord r to 10 have the th deputies or Others JI the Jail but left the tho night jailer there alone lone t evening a white mal prisoner was a removed I from the nUl upper noor floor of or the Jail leaving only enly Johnson and a white woman on that floor fleer Th The court Ourt pointed out that this same HOine man had bud been n removed In the Slime i way aT at t the th time of ot tile first At Attempt attempt tempt tn t to o lynch Johnson Johnsen whish bad Imd been bean be n frustrated by b tho the removal of ot the negro If gro lived Ih only a n few r Mock blocks from the tM jail and nd v uhn h n tie lie II was wu l b to ton the n trial Irla and nd the Uta attorney attorn that a mob va vs at a tH t jail went t there I close alone l Although for tor an tin hour In the midst kIat of ot or near r the mob molt the court held h ld he mild not seek ReI to tOo ob oh obtain obtAin tain Information co so that he could Mulli Identity Identify any atty of ot Its Ita members The Tb court Ourt In III Shipp guilty guilt commented on en n R published interview alleged to 10 have ha been baSil mil bait I with Shipp I The Tho people P of or Hamilton county were re wilting willing to tn let Jet tile the th law la take Its Ita I course cou until It became known knon that the case CaM would not flot probably be disposed of tot foi four tour or I five years year by the th supreme court Ourt of Oot the United State States It quoted aa U saying aan hut But the th people would not submit to this and end I do dOJ not nut w onder at Rt It POLITICS PLATED 11 TED PART fART Chief Justice Puller In Ing guilty imM that this reference to 10 people wa WAil significant f fur tor i he be was wasa a candidate for lor reelection and had tied been ben told tod that hU ht saving tho tha from the unit lint attempt to 10 mob him would cost coat him his hili pIA and 1151 h Itt he had answered that he bf wished hed the mob moh bad had got him before he be did The Th court held that thaI must have hp believed a mob would attack the jell J II the t night Johnson s lynched I but although ho was WA In charge charf of or the th jell more than thaI two to hours hou before bet its Ua it arrival he lie made mI no effort to summon e eto to 10 repel rapel tile Ue The testimony of ot Mrs linker a prisoner to the th effect that Gibson in told her It r before bt re thu UI mob arrived that It wax was a coming cumins mine and foi fo her hei h to go to her har cell was referred to Williams And 1111 Nolan participated In Inthe inthe the Ih lynching tue Ihl court held upon 11 the strength of at direct testimony to thit tbt ef of effect fact Statement made m by b 1 tt and Meyers were held as a evidence fI e of ot theli guilt Jilt |
