Cherokee County, OK - Newspaper - Tahlequah Arrow 30 Aug. 1902 Front Page

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PRISONERS TRANSFERRED
 Forty Three Prisoners Moved From Muskogee Jail to the Northern District
Stockade at Vinita.

  All the prisoners who are to be tried in the northern district, and who
were in jail at Muskogee, were transferred to the northern district holdover
at Vinita Tuesday.  There were forty three prisoners in all.  Twenty one
white men, thirteen negroes and nine Indians, and are charged with crimes
ranging from bootlegging to murder.  The removal of these prisoners from the
"bull pen" at Muskogee to the alleged temporary jail at Vinita, is the last
act in the division of the northern district.  Following are the names of
the prisoners:
Tom ANDERSON, Eli ARCHER, Rufe ARMSTRONG, Jesse BURR, Jim BRUNER, Harrison
BIRD, Clyde BAILEY, Austin COWAN, Joe CARSON, James DAVIDSON, Frank EPHRIAM,
Frank EVERS, Sam FRYE, J.J. HILDERBRAND, Tom HERNAL, Tom JONES, William
JOHNSON, S. KELLY, Herse LEE, Andrew J. W. LENNOX, Wm. MAYFIELD, J. H.
McCANTS, Thomas McAFEE, Richard MEDLAND, Charles NAPIER, N. J. PACE, John
PACE, William PHILLIPS, Ed RODMAN, Sam ROACH, Tom RUTLEDGE, Addison STEWART,
Tom SHELTON, Isham TAYLOR, W. H. TURNER, James TAYLOR, John TAYLOR (negro),
John TAYLOR (Indian), Ernest TAYLOR, Bill THURMAN, Oscar TERRY, Chas. WOLF,
and Jim WOLF.