Show GO TO JAIL sheriff and ja ler also to be pun shed for failure to protect prisoner washington for the first time in american history sly men are in on for contempt of the supreme cobit of the united states for the first time the federal government his liis placed men behind the bars as an out come of lynching a negro at the united states jail here cap tain joseph F shipp former sheriff at chattanooga jeremiah gibon his jailer and luther williams niel nolan henry padgett and william ayes of the same city monday after noon began to serve terms of imons sh pp and gibson had been found guilty of falling failing to protect from a mob ed johnson whose legal execution for rape had been stayed by the supreme court until it could review the case the others had been found guilty of participating in the lynching of a fed eral prisoner shipp williams and nolan each were sentenced to ninety days impels while gibson padgett and mayes each received sixty days |