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FIGHT TO BRING►Missouri Authorities Final-Surrender Negro WhoSlugged L ocal Offic* e r.A persistent effort by Sheriff W\V Shaver to have Charles Whitmore. nevtro. returned liere from St Louis to answer a charge of assaulting Constable Klb, i t Tavlor • ruled in triumph yesterday when the negrtr counsel was finallyfor -u to turn the negro over to.Missu-stppi county deputies after ail appeal to the Missouri supremer ourt and later to Oovernor Caul-l d to prevent the negro's extradition failedHigh Court Refuses WritStanley Hancock deputy .sheriff, and FU/moid Bomar, city police man. returned from St. Louis late yesterday with the negro. It was Hancock* third trip to St Louis lor the negro and the fourth attempt to have him returned here. Tw ice to lore Hancock w as t lwarted 1f S; Tby W fnteinore s counsel but he *uc-Wceeded in wresting the negro from j his attorneys yesterday when the jsui'nine r 'in re»t -id to issue awrit i l.ima corpus Whitmore*: t»orney made a last minute effort to ho*d the negro by a direct plea to the Missouri governor. Oovernor Caulfield had already : igned extradition papers in the hands cl Deputy Hancock Iiowever. | and he ret used to intervene 5Whitmore alUged to lave wrested, Constable Eltert Taylor’s pirlt;*i from the officer, when am arrest ' on a liquor charge was attempted c at Whitmores home in the summer cf 1029 He us said to have struck Taylor several times in theface and threatened the officerwith his ov n gun until the negro escaped. A posse failed to find him and he was puked up a year later by St Lotus policeClaimed Dangerlntnert in the case was aroused .nre when counsel for Whitmore alleged that if the negro was returned here his life would be m f•mdanger of n, b violence After be It i assured bv Sheriff Shaver thahe would protect the newro. the Missouri governor issued extradition papers and tlie court battle which Whitmore eventually lest, started lt;ihe negro is held in jail here t ov ailing t le action of the grand e Jury which meets next week t
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Blytheville Courier News
Blytheville, Arkansas, US
Thu, Oct 23, 1930
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