Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 67, No. 262, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1981 Page: 2 of 16
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PAGE TWO—Sapulpa (Okla.) Herald, Friday, July IT, IMI
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County Sheriff vows to I Obituary
chain four more prisoners
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IJTTLE HOCK (UFI) -
Pulaski County Sheriff
Tommy Robinson, who had
14 prisoners chained to a
state prison guard tower at
Pine Bluff, said he will chain
four more prisoners to the
tower today if prison of-
ficials don’t accept them.
Attorney General Steve
Clark said if Robinson did
try it again, Clark would get
a court injuction to stop him.
Clark says the law is own his
side, but Robinson says the
law backs him.
Kobinson said he would
ask Correction Department
itficials today to take the
four prisoners in his jail who
were committed Wednesday
to state prison terms. If they
refuse, Robinson said, his
deputies have orders to
chain those four to the guard
Lower, too.
Clark said he is not certain
what legal action could be
taken to prevent all of the
state’s 75 sheriffs from
relieving overcrowded
iunty jails by similar
1 .cans.
They can't do anything
about what I did. I>et me tell
\ou something, if they think
tney could do something,
they would have already
done it by now,” the sheriff
said.
About 74 people who have
been sentenced to serve time
in the state prison are
backed up in county jails
because the Arkansas
Correction Department has
no room for them. It is under
a court order to limit the
prison population.
Never in my life have I
heard anything like this,”
' lark said. ‘We’re not sure
the sheriff hasn’t violated his
own legal responsibility by
releasing them from his
custody. Had they escaped
or had there been some other
problems, the sheriff might
have been personally
liable.”
Pulaski County Sheriff
Tommy Robinson took 18 jail
inmates to the prison
Wednesday, but only four of
them were accepted. He
handcutfed the others to the
guard tower at the prison
gate.
The inmates sat by the
tower for 34 hours until
state police decided to take
them back to Pulaski County
and pul them in city jails.
Robinson had set up road-
blocks in Little Hock to keep
them from being returned to
the county jail. Robinson
said he would have arrested
any officer who tried to
“slip” any of the inmates by
into the county jail. The
sheriff said he could have
charged tne officers with
hindering a government
operation.
Gov. Trank White said
Thursday Robinson s actions
were “totally irresponsible.
“He needs to look into a
mirror," Robinson snapped
back when he heard the
governor's comments.
“Tommy Robinson is
going to have one hell of a
lawsuit on h>s Iiands,” an
inmate said.
Robinson said he had
pleaded with prison officials
Wednesday to accept the
state prisonirs, who were
“causing problems and
agitating” at the troubled
county jail. But prison of-
ficials told Robinson the
inniates would be taken only
as vacancies occurred.
“They had no respect for
our jail problems,’' Robinson
said. “Their attitude was,
‘Screw you guys. You are on
a rotation list like everyone
else.’ “
Sandra Kurjlaka,
executive director of the
American Civil Liberties
Union, said her organization
was also considering filing
suit against Robinson or
including the matter In a suit
the ACLU already has
pending against the county
jail.
“My immediate reaction
was that he had violated the
constitutional rights of these
inmates," she said.
However, late Thursday
afternoon Mrs. Kurjiaka also
was not certain if what
Robinson did was illegal.
Twenty inmates have fled
the Pulaski County jail in
four mass escapes this year.
Tuesday, Robinson declared
a state of emergency when
more than 100 inmates
refused to come out of their
cells for a head count. He
sent deputies in riot gear into
the jail cells to subdue the
prisoners and ordered his
entire staff to work seven
days a week at the jail,
abandoning their other
duties.
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Funeral services for Mrs.
Martha E. Morris, 605 W.
Mockingbird Lane, were
held today at 10:30 a.m. in
Green Hill Mausoleum
Chapel with the Rev. Harold
Powell officiating.
Interment followed under
direction of Smith Funeral
Home.
D.M. Mullen
Services were held
Thursday at Seminole for D.
M. Mullen, father of
Sapulpan C. W. Mullen. He
died Monday at age 96,
following a short illness.
Mullen was born Oct. 30,
1894 and had lived at
Seminole most of his life. A
retired farmer, he was
called the “Ambassador of
Good Will” at Pioneer
Nursing Home where he had
resided the past five years,
and where he frequently
sang soloes at worship
services held at the home.
He was a deacon of First
Baptist Church in Seminole.
Surviving are four sons,
nine grandchildren and 14
great-grandchildren.
Paul Snider
Services for Paul C.
Snider, 608 S. Apple, were to
be held today at 3 p.m. in
First Baptist Church with
the Revs. Joe C. Knowles. F.
M. Byford and Alvin Hedin
officiating.
Masonic graveside ser-
vices were to be held and
entombment in Green Hill
Mausoleum following, under
direction of Smith Funeral
Home.
Serving as pallbearers
were J. V. Frazier, Howard
K. Jones, Ike Franklin, Tom
Sheriff, Leonard Galbraith
and Bill Jordan
Honorary bearers were
Clyde Plummer, Kingsmen
Bible Class and Sertoma
Club. An honor guard for the
service was from the
Sapulpa Police Department.
Jeane Anthis
Mrs. Ralph (Jeane M.)
Anthis of 305 W. Lincoln died
Friday in Bartlett Memorial
Medical Center following a
brief illness. She was bom
Sept. 9, 1914 in Stillwater,
and with the exception of a
brief period when she lived
in Bristow and at Muskogee,
had been a lifelong resident
of Sapulpa.
Mrs. Anthis attended
Sapulpa schools and
graduated from Sapulpa
high school in 1932. She was a
member of First
Presbyterian Church, had
been active in Girl Scouts,
life member of Friends of
Sapulpa library, Sapulpa
Historical Society, and had
served as Memorial
Chairman for the Cancer
Society for many years. Her
husband was co-owner of
Plymouth Drug.
Surviving, in additon to
her husband, Ralph are one
daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Nell
Henson of Oklahoma City,
three grandchildren, a
sister, Mrs Dorothy
Friedman of Sapulpa and a
brother, Jack Morris of St.
IiOuis, Mo.
Private family services
will be held Saturday at 1:30
p.m. in Green Hill
Mausoleum Chapel with the
Rev. Thomas Eggebeen
officiating.
Entombment will be under
direction of Owtn Funeral
Home. Mrs. Anthis will lie in
state at the funeral home
until 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
In lieu of other remem-
brances, friends may make
donations to the Cancer
Fund, in care of I^ouise
Briggs, chairman, 503 S.
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