Sheriff's Son Has Smallpox; Jail Quarantined

LAMB, PARKER, BISWELL, TYLO

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 7/5/2010 at 08:30:13

Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) Feb. 9, 1915

THE SHERIFF'S SON HAS SMALLPOX; JAIL IS QUARANTINED

Smallpox has set its seal on the county jail in Montezuma. The son of Sheriff Ed Lamb has the disease and the sheriff's house and the jail are under quarantine. As a result, several county prisoners who have been arrested have been placed in the Oskaloosa jail for safe keeping until the ban is removed from the jail in Montezuma.

One of the recent arrests is M.A. Parker, charged with wife desertion, who was located by the officers in Atchison, Kas., and brought back to face the indictment against him. Parker married Beatrice Biswell, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Biswell. He and his wife lived for some time in Grinnell, Mr. Parker being employed for some time as clerk in the Rapson & Moyle grocery store as it was then called.Later they left Grinnell. Not long ago they broke up housekeeping in Davenport and Parker sent his wife to relatives in Grinnell. He then dropped out of sight until the officers succeeded in locating him.

Two more occupants of the Oskaloosa jail are Fred Louis and Cicero Tylo, accused of breaking into the Swift & Co.'s plant and taking butter, eggs and poultry. The two men are Mexicans. They were given a hearing Saturday before Judge P.G. Norris in Superior Court and were held to the grand jury.