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Sheriff T. J. Curran, in common „ with e\cry officer iu ilii peninsula, u ha Im'i-u ui' f il by official: of tin* Mur s, lt;lu**ti*• prison to inak*« a special cf , toil to . Chat llt; Baptist, who iescaped from the prison last week. (l Baptist was sent lo tlm prison ul ( l**r being convicted of a statutory of ^ lease in Iron eouuly ami since being oulineii there lo* has openly threat • io*d that it he ever rained freedom t he would return to hi home district and kilt three of the prominent ter ^ .dent ; who were eoueerned in the j, trial ol (lie * use aeam t liint it in t, the belief of the prison officials that j, Baptist is at some point between Lit v tie Utke and Eseanaba probably a , member of a berry picking camp. Ho v «oucertted have become tin* people of , Iron and Itiekinson counties that a reward of faOO has beet i posted fol' . the recapture of tile e*raped convict ] 'I'tie three melt whom lie math [ threats against are Senator M. II. Moriarity, Editor o’Bibu of the Iron Itive Slumbaugh News, and I. \V. Hy •r, si prominent lawyer.None of the principals In very much worried over the matter, but the families are upset now that the man is * at liberty. Especially Mrs. Myers 1 and two daughters arlt; greatly eou- • rented over the safety of Mr. Myers, i The Myers family live about two I miles from the city on a farm and • every time Mr. Myers leave his home * he has to telephone to bis wife from his office in the city tin account of 1 his wife’s serious condition caused by tIn* worry, Mr. Myers intends to take ills family on a vacation until tlm 1 prisoner is reeuptured The Myers family will leave Iron River this weekAt the time the charge of rape wus preferred against Charles Baptist, Charles II. Watson was prosecuting attorney. Mr. Watson was attending, Ilii- Constitutional convention and the prosecution was represented hy Senator Moriarity. Two trials were held. In the tirst the jury disagreed and 14m secoitd resulted in Baptist's conviction. Judge Stum- presided at both trials, and tin* case*, were heat'd iu Dickinson county. A change of veMje was demanded hy the defendant. Judge Stone sentenced him to serve a term of from seven to 15 years The trial created quiet a stir iu Iron River atthe time as I lie defendant is alleged to have made numerous assaults on women and young girls.While iu the branch prison Baptist was visited on several occasions by men from Iron River, where ho had formerly conducted a cigar manufacturing business At those times he t bodiy threatened that as soon as he- was free he would kill Mr Byers,- who ape eared a? ;i witness against him at thetrials, Mr. Moriarity, whos had prosecuted him, and Editor t O'Brien who had published “untruths”- about the case.
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Escanaba Daily Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Fri, Aug 01, 1913
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