Show CC A D I 1 11 I 1 what a chicago reporter tr found in mississippi I 1 t THERE SUOT m I 1 POLITICS IS 13 THE TUE he went to InT esil ate the he matthewa Batt heiri harder murder and the innate became suddenly too to wai baim in for health CHICAGO jan 3 W AT glenn a reporter the chicago o 0 tribune who was seat to carrollton miep to investigate vesti gate the assassination of the republican postmaster Af matthews atthews and arid who received many indignities at the hands ol 01 the mississippi marahs Ma Alo jahs jabs has returned I 1 to 0 chicago lie ile telle tells an interesting story of hie his experience and of the cold blooded murder va which litch 1 a die dispatch a from washington bays says the ab boptist minister at carrollton area senator george politics had whatever to do wi h it glenn went to carrollton to investigate the matter quietly ane thoroughly ascertaining facts that rem remove 0 all doubt that the killing of postmaster matthews was a murder by the gun policy of democrats the stories tent bent out by southern thern democratic papers that Mit matthews terrible record and his generally bad character were mere pure glenn learned all this an and then called on the b other of at the murdered man united states marshal mittet ws too marshal marhal was wits sick in bed with I 1 typhoid hoid fever but bat he tie had already realy nl h heard ea rd from a friend that the people gereon we reon toa glenn and he told the reporter he be bad had better go to Wit winona ions to send hie his dispatches as he h would meet with harm in carrollton so glenn went to granada on the trat train n and hired a horse and wagn wag in with a negro oiiver Ui iver to kolaka take it him anta to winona arriving Arri vinn there be he bled filed in the western office an I 1 account of the assassination and wont went to bed the op operator aerator evidently based the diet dis dispatch atch aron around n 1 I among he ilia bothun bot gun Democrat stor for the next morning glenn as met by the liveryman livery nun of which he lie had driven the bordato horse to death weed demanded a hundred and twenty five dollars in settlement glenn refused to pay and five live minutes liter later be was under arrest charged with hav having ng dr driven ven to death weeds horse the officers who arrested him cheerfully informed glenn that I 1 we have hug men for less crimes around here and the people around here dont think any too much of yon you tor for that telegram you sent last night glenn was taken to the office of tho the ma mayor or and police magistrate kelley ao and alter after being told that he be was guilty was committed to jail he lie was allol ked to heleg telegraph ri h to to his life paper for bands pending the receipt of a reply ho lie was taken to j it a room reeking with filth and bad odors and occupied with three or four rie groes and white men confined tor for minor offenses lenses of after several houra hours the mar marshall took him out and the matter was compromised 0 glenn lean paid bi him in a 11 alno a 0 of eight dollars and gave a promis ory note tor fur ninety dollars dollar stor for the boree orpe this was in coreed byrbe by the relatives of t the be mur mar dered postmaster why vl extended him all the aid they could after he be went through the above little formalities glenn was released on condition that he leave the town dr jones had been sent from car rollston ton by 31 marshal ma ala them a to aid glenn if poe possible sible and advised him tho the be beet g t thing to do was to get north at once its no use for you to attempt to fight the case eaid said dr jones no matter what may be the evidence or the facts in the ca case seyon yon will be found guilty and the chances are you will gel the eitrem penalty of the law io so glenn came back to chicago afier receiving a vigorous object lesson enzsol on political economy in the enlightened libb t common commonwealth wealth of mississippi si sis as ippi sippi |