99-Year-Old
Tennessean In Jail?
Asheville, Jan. 11—Broken and feebly showing every day of
his 99 years, Thomas Owenby, a Tennesseean charged with violation of the
espionage law, was removed from the county jail to a local hospital and will
appear at the next term of superior court for trial. Owenby is charged with
uttering criticisms of President Wilson while the nation was at war, the criticisms
not coinciding with the views of his audience, who had him arrested on the
charge of violating the espionage laws. He was placed in jail here and has
remained until Commissioner Stradley found him there yesterday. A physician was
called and examined Owenby, and after securing the consent of Marshal Webb, the
old man was removed to a hospital.
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