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From: "Mike & Kathy Bowlin" <>
Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Higbee news, Friday, 10 Apr 1914
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:11:02 -0600


Friday, 10 Apr 1914--A. S. HIGDON DEAD--The many Higbee friends of A. S.
Higdon
were greatly shocked Sunday when word came from Huntsville that he had died
at the
home of his son, Herbert, that morning at 3 o'clock of pneumonia, none of
them having
heard of his sickness.
Albin Stewart Higdon was born in Hardin county, Ky, on Feb 2, 1834, and
died
April 5, 1914, being 80 years, two months and three days of age.
He was married in 1854 to Miss Eliza Ward, sister of the late W. E. Ward.
They
were the parents of one child, Mrs. Henry B. Cubbage, of near town. His
wife dying in
the early '70's, he came to Missouri in 1874, when he was married to Miss
Jemima
Duncan, sister of R. G. Duncan. Two children were born to this union--Mrs.
H. H.
Goldsberry of Glasgow and Herbert L. Higdon of Huntsville.
Besides his three children he is survived by two brothers, Henry, of
Roanoke and
Mack, of near Richmond.
Mr. Higdon was a citizen of Higbee for many years and was known and
respected
as a Christian gentleman, and numbered his friends by his acquaintances.
Since the death
of his wife a few years ago he has been making his home with his son.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church Monday, by Rev. Ben
Robson,
and despite the driving cold rain, the house was filled, almost every seat
being occupied,
which spoke most eloquently of the esteem in which he was held. Interment
was made in
the city cemetery.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--DEATH OF MRS. PATTERSON--Mrs. Emily Patterson, 38 years
of age, died at 8:30 o'clock Sunday evening at the family home at 820
Rothwell street.
The surviving relatives are a husband, Charles Patterson, six children, one
brother, two half brothers, and two half sisters.
The remains were shipped to Higbee and were then taken to New Hope church
in
Howard county where the funeral was held this afternoon. The case of the
motherless
children is particularly pathetic as their father is in the Missouri state
penitentiary at
Jefferson City. He had been paroled and was recently returned to the pen on
account of
violating the parole by getting drunk. The innocent, helpless children are
without means
and are on the mercies of the charitably inclined people of Moberly and
vicinity. For the
present the members of the Junior league of the First M. E. church are
taking care of the
infant. This is a very commendable work as the little leaguers have earned
the money
which they are unselfishly spending to keep the little baby until it can be
placed in a good
home--Moberly Democrat.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--The residence of John Mure of south of town was
destroyed by fire
Wednesday noon, the fire originating from a defective flue. By the hardest
kind of work
most of the furniture and contents of the house in general were saved. A
summer kitchen
which stood near was also burned with all of its contents. Mr. Mure carried
insurance,
but it will not begin to cover his loss. Mr. Mure seems to have had more
than his share of
bad luck of late, and all deeply sympathize with him in his latest
misfortune.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--Caleb Edwards of Moberly is the guest of his son, B. L.
Edwards
and wife.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--J. T. Reynolds, aged 70 years, a brother of Mrs. John
Dennis of this
place, died at his home in Shelby county on March 28.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--Lee Burton, son of W. M. Burton of south of town, while
dragging
the roads Saturday, was thrown from the drag and had his collar bone broken.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--Thomas Jones, who was accidentally shot last December,
and who
has been slowly recovering since, gave his family and friends a good scare
Friday by
falling in a faint as he was starting up town. He was taken home and a
doctor sent for.
The doctor could find nothing unusual the matter with Mr. Jones, and gave it
as his
opinion that he fainted from weakness. After a day or two in bed Mr. Jones
was able to
be about as usual.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--Mr. and Mrs. John Rankin closed a contract last week
with
Malcolm S. Martin, architect and superintendent, of Hannibal, for the
erection of a
handsome residence on the lot just east of the residence of Dr. C. F.
Burkhalter, ground
for which was broken Monday. R. W. McMillian, who had the construction of
the school
house for Mr. Martin, will superintend the building. The residence when
completed will
be the finest in town, and will cost $6,000, exclusive of furnishings. We
hope to give a
picture of it and a full description in an early issue.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--Born, at Elliott, on the 4th, to N. J. Moffitt and
wife, a daughter.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--Wm. Mason will sell a lot of household goods today at
public
auction at his residence near the Katy depot. Mr. Mason and family will
leave in a few
days for Canada.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--FRED MICHAEL PAROLED--Fred Michael, who was sent to the
pen for ten years for the killing of Elmer Magruder in the city jail here
some five years
ago, was this week paroled by Gov. Major to Walter A. Mills of La Plata, the
parole
being recommended by the State Board of Pardons.
Michael, it will be remembered, was arrested by Marshal Cain along with two
companions, who were wanted for robbing the Wabash depot at Salisbury. When
he
arrested them, Mr. Cain searched them rather hurriedly, and placed them in
the city jail,
and that night about 9 o'clock took Magruder to the jail, or rather, the
latter volunteered
to go, to aid in the search.
Michael had a pistol concealed under his coat and when Cain opened the cell
door and told him to come out and be searched, as the prisoner in the first
cell had been,
he came out on the run, shooting as he ran. Cain pulled his revolver and
began shooting,
hitting Michael in the arm with the last shot as he made his escape through
the rear
window. When the smoke cleared it was found that Cain was shot two or three
times,
while Magruder lay on the floor dead, having been killed by Michael's first
shot,
according to Mr. Cain.
Luckily for Michael, he made his escape, else he would soon have been put
beyond the help of any earthly board of pardons. Higbee citizens offered a
reward of
$250 for Michael's capture, which was made at Mexico a week or ten days
later, after he
had, presumably, held up the Alton depot at Centralia. He was placed in
jail at
Huntsville and at his trial was allowed to plead guilty to second degree
murder in order to
save his neck, and escaped with a sentence of only ten years.
About a year ago his father asked that his son be paroled, for which no one
can
blame him in the least, and interested several parties at LaPlata, near
which place he
resides, in the case, with the result that the matter was taken up with the
State Board of
Pardons. According to law, or a ruling of the board, due notice of the
application was
made by publication in THE NEWS, and immediately such a protest was made
that the
board refused to grant the parole.
If any notice was ever given that the board intended considering the matter
again,
we have no knowledge of it, and it would appear that snap judgment was taken
on the
people. In justice to them they should have at least been notified that the
matter was to
be considered.
The claim was made for Michael that he had been a model prisoner. Why
shouldn't he have been? This thing of spending millions in criminal costs,
erecting jails
and penitentiaries and maintaining them at heavy cost is all useless if all
kinds of
criminals from the common thief to the rapist and red handed murderer are to
be turned
loose in a year or two. The way we view it, the board of pardons is a
nuisance and was
created mainly to make room for a few more pap-suckers, and in order to make
it appear
that its members are earning their salary, a dozen or more are paroled at
each meeting of
the board. We don't know that the old Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a
tooth is exactly the proper thing for these enlightened and humane days, but
we do
believe that when a man is given a just sentence for a crime he commits
deliberately and
with his eyes open, he should be forced to serve it in full, even if he gets
so good that he
sprouts wings.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--Eugene Turner, col, aged about 20, who works for M.
Murphy, was
all but killed Sunday while playing ball in the northeast part of town with
a lot of other
colored boys, and it will be a month before he will be able to be out. Fred
Brooks was at
the bat and made a vicious swing at a hot one, when the bat slipped and flew
with the
speed of an arrow, the big end of it striking Turner between the eyes and
squarely on the
nose, driving that member into his face. He was unconscious for a half hour
or more, and
until his companions could get a doctor they thought he was dead.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--ANOTHER BOOZE VICTIM--Walter S. Swigert, who at one
time
was classed as one of the best retail grocery clerks in Kirksville, died as
a result of a
protracted debauch in an old elevator at Kingsbury Friday.
He was found in the rear of a negro shanty Wednesday night carrying a jug
of
whiskey and was later taken to the elevator where his two daughters, who
live with their
mother in New Franklin, tried to induce him to go home. His son found him
dead Friday
morning after he had been notified that Mr. Swigert was in a bad condition,
says Coroner
Denny Smith--Fayette Advertiser.

Friday, 10 Apr 1914--M. W. Kneuven, aged 30, killed himself at Glasgow
Wednesday of
last week by drinking carbolic acid. Domestic trouble was the cause.

Kathy Bowlin
Additions, corrections, comments welcome.







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