Jim Williams - Minco Minstrel, Minco, Indian Territory

Submitted by:  Sheri Hammons hammons@shertech.net
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MINCO MINSTREL 
 
Unknown Date
 
Jim Williams was taken through here one day this week on his way to the 
Guthrie jail for safekeeping. He failed to give satisfactory bond in the 
case of the United States against him for robbing the mail, and was 
remanded to jail to await the trial. We failed to learn exactly the status 
of the case against him for forging Washita county script, but have been 
informed that the case was held over, awaiting the final disposition of 
the United States case. The script business will hang over him, ready for 
prosecution, until the other case comes to trial. Mrs. Williams is here, 
but wants to go on to Guthrie to be near her husband, as a true and loyal 
woman should. The sympathy of the entire community is with her in this 
distress.