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YOUN BAILEY, NOTED CONVICT, | ‘AGAIN RUNS AMUCK—BREW| GUN ON VISITOR AT A RED BRUSH RESORT. John Bailey, general bad man and noted character about town, who has given the police more trouble than any other man ever here, is In Jal! again. John had just completed a Short sentence in the state peniten tary—from which he drove out once and was recaptured here— about Christmas, and had been held only a few days. Yesterday at a resort in Red Brush he objected to the presence of another visitor and sought to influence his departure the exhibition of as dangerous looking gun. The visitor did not stand on the order of his going, but he complained to the police about It and Offer Howell and Special Of ficer. Wade went er Bailey and placed him under arrest. Bailey bre not a member of the numerous Bai ley family in this community. He 9 said to be a warm frond of Chief Newkirk and at one tmy insisted on Increasing the chief's overdupe's by the insertion in his anatomy of 4 piece of lead. ‘The chief is rather slender, he did not care to in crease his weight after the manner of the “Jumping Frog of Calaver as. Galley was fined $200 by Record er Crockett this morning, and will be given an opportunity to assist Street Commissioner Clifford in im proving the highways.
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Bluefield Daily Leader
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Tue, Jan 26, 1909
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