smith, chief
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
- Chief Smith
- Record count
- 11
- Sources
- life_events,name_index_clip_tables,residents_master
- Places seen
- Cotton Belt; Cotton Belt | Dexter; Dexter; Dexter/Cotton Belt
- First event date
- 1915-04-28
- Last event date
- 1920-05-14
Timeline — 9 events
- 1915-02-17 Dexter. A female apparently about 16 was begging on the streets here for money to get to St. Louis; Chief Smith followed her to the Mountain depot, found her with her able bodied young husband of 22 or 24, and the pair left town on the first train [date from clip_id] Quote: "they were glad to hit th…
- 1915-04-28 Dexter. The Dexter chief of police asked parents to keep their children home after dark: boys and girls aged 13 to 17 were courting on the graded school grounds at night; on Sunday night between 8 and 9 o'clock he found four or five couples and ordered them away Quote: "warn the parents that their g…
- 1915-06-18 Dexter. Arrested James Evans for bootlegging whiskey at the Cotton Belt section house Wednesday afternoon; Evans pleaded guilty Thursday morning and was fined $300 and costs Co-mentioned: James Evans. Quote: "Chief Smith arrested James Evans at the Cotton Belt section house"
- 1915-09-10 Dexter. Tuesday afternoon Chief Smith picked up a one-legged namesake very much spilicated, soshed, gissered, soused or befrittsed and put him in the cool-off-er; he was given an hour to leave town Quote: "One night in our hospitable bastile does 'em"
- 1916-07-07 Chief Smith left this morning for Jefferson Barracks with Elmer Gaines, a deserter from the army whose arrest for forgery in Riceville, Iowa, is mentioned elsewhere in this issue [date from clip_id] Co-mentioned: Elmer Gaines. Quote: "who is a deserter from the army"
- 1920-03-12 Cotton Belt; Dexter. Chief Smith deepen Louie Peters / Charlie Kinser arrest orbit — clip-only Smith Co-mentioned: Geo. Barham; Louie Peters. Quote: "Charlie Kinser; R. J. Smith; appears Kinser; Louie Peters; turned Peters; Chief Smith; arrested. Kinser; Cotton Belt; Geo. Barham; Bloomfield. Chief S…
- 1920-05-14 Dexter. Dexter police chief; alerted by the DuQuoin police that the wanted man was at work there; telegraphic communication confirmed it was Frank Stubbs, and the DuQuoin police put him under arrest and informed Chief Smith, who asked whether Stubbs would return without a requisition Quote: "Chief S…
- 1921-04-22 Dexter. Received young Swinger's robbery report in Dexter on Saturday night Apr 16, 1921. Armed robbery of Lorin Swinger, 17, son of J. M. Swinger, on Saturday night Apr 16, 1921 about 10 o'clock near the Cotton Belt in Dexter; two young men (~20-25 years old) threw a flashlight in his face, held a…
- 1922-03-31 Dexter. Chief Smith arrested two men Thursday charged with robbing a store at Bowling Green, Missouri; the pair were traced through an American Express Co. firearms shipment addressed to Charles Schoultz of Dexter Co-mentioned: T. L. Johnson. Quote: "Two men were arrested here Thursday by Chief Smit…
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