FUNNY WORLD, THIS! -- WHITEY TIMMONS (Part 5)

TIMMONS, JOHNSON, CONNELL

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 1/1/2005 at 23:50:08

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, April 18, 1907

The evidence at the TIMMONS' case, last week, developed the fact (?) that
AUGUST JOHNSON voluntarily entrusted his fellow prisoner, knowing that he
was a prisoner, with his money, $1,096, which he had concealed in the pocket
of an inside pair of pants, he wearing three pair at the time, on the
grounds that he had been relieved of his gold watch by prisoners in an
Illinois jail, some time previous. He said TIMMONS made no pretense of
being in authority but told him he was serving a sentence. This sounds
strangely but this is a strange world, anyway. WHITEY's evidence was that
the old man told him to get away with the money -- and to write to him later
knowing that he (WHITEY) could escape. He gave him the money so the
officers could not get it. Here is the funny part of it. AUGUST JOHNSON
could have gone at anytime himself and kept his money. He was merely put in
as a vagrant by Mayor Connell, telling Connell that he had no money. All he
had to do to get out of jail was to show that he was not dependent upon the
public for his lodging -- that he had money. The Jury went out at 5 o'clock
p.m. and deliberated until 3:00 a.m. next morning, allowing how these
puzzles affected them.
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