Hard Times
After fulfilling the allotted time in the Missouri State Penitentiary, Bill Naves will be met by Marion County Sherriff Magness and escorted back to Yellville, Marion County, Arkansas.
B and C Hall, Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City
14 June 1907
Sheriff Magness and Bert Record returned Sunday evening from Jefferson City, Mo., where they had been to get Bill Naves who is wanted in this country charged with having shot Ike Lantz on the night of July 23rd, 1902, and who had been liberated from the penitentiary at that place for shooting Jerry Jenkins on the same night that he is charged with having shot Lantz. Naves, being unable to give bond, was placed in jail Sunday evening, where he will probably remain until August term of court. Sheriff Magness was very much impressed with the management of the Missouri penitentiary. He says all their prisoners are worked on the inside the prison walls, in the manufacture of various article, such as shoes, overalls, jumpers, saddle trees, which he thinks is far better than the lease system which is in vogue in this state – that they are well fed and humanely treated.
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Works Cited:
“Bill Naves at Yellville” Cotter Courier 4.30 (14 June 1907) A1-1. Baxter County Library, Mountain Home, AR. 1 Dec. 2009.Baxter County Microfilm Archive. Baxter County Library, Mountain Home, AR. 1 Dec. 2009.
Photo: B and C Hall, Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City. www.sos.mo.gov/archives/pubs/archweb/pen.asp. 2 July 2010.
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