Wild and Wooly Times No More

Police Take Vacation 

A report at Police Headquarters indicated the only inmate of the Galena City Jail was a Mr. Howe who was arrested in Joplin by Joplin officers on a charge of horse stealing. He was brought to Galena Thursday night by Deputy Sheriff John Hardwick who took him to Columbus yesterday afternoon. Reports from Columbus show that last Wednesday was the first day in the history of Cherokee County that the county jail was empty. Not a single person occupied a cell at the jail on that day. 

Joplin News Herald, January 11, 1920

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