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Franklin County Tries Out Speed Cop
Friday June 22,1923 - Spectator Vol. 12 No. 94
Sunday the agent from the Harley-Davidson Motorcycles from Russellville drove through to demonstrate the machines to the Sheriff. After riding the bike all afternoon, they checked up and found that they had arrested 13 speed fiends and collected $15 cash bond from each.
The cop will be installed under the state law, which says you must not exceed 15 miles an hour for a quarter of a mile in a city, town, or village and 20 miles on public highways and 6 miles around sharp curves.
No one will be taken unaware since the county judge has had 22 artistic, as well as, conspicuous signs painted and well distributed up and down the road.
The quickest way to get the cop off the road is to obey the law and starve him to death, because he has to make his salary on your speed. Slow down.
Franklin County Jails
The old county jail was located on the corner of Fourth and
College Streets in block 18. It was burned down during the Civil
War. In 1869 a new jail was ordered. It was to be hewn out of
logs with a metal cage. An exercise yard, enclosed with a high board
fence, was behind it. By the 1890's a new jail was in a brick building
on the southwest corner of the square. In 1914, Claud Talley
built the rock jail by the river. It was in use until the building, in
use today, was completed in 1975.
Click to see Jail and Courthouses
Franklin
County Sheriffs
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1837-1838
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George
McKinney
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1838-1844
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Emanuel
Speegle
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1844-1846
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Charles
Whitson
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1846-1848
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Joseph
T. Mileham
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1848-1852
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Redman B.
Sagely
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1852-1853
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John
Jones
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1853-1854
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Alfred
Coffee
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1854-1856
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Stephen B.
Honea
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1856-1862
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David A.
Stewart
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1862-1864
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Alfred
Moffit
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1864-1866
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William
C. Adams
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1866-1868
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Robert
W. Steele
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1868-1869
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William
C. Adams
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1869-1872
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Charles C.
Berry
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1872-1874
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Francis
(Frank) M.
Elsey
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1874-1880
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Richard
(Dick) Q.
Shores
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1881-1882
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John P.
Falconer
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1882-1882
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Francis M.
Elsey
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1882-1884
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A. Hulbert
(Hub) Sadler
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1884-1886
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J.T.
Tolleson
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1886-1892
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William (Billie)
L.
Huggins
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1892-1894
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William P.
Richardson
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1894-1896
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Abeau Hasson
Marlar
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1896-1900
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William P.
Richardson
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1900-1906
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Ebenezer
(Ed) B. Milton
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1906-1910
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Abeau Hasson
Marlar
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1910-1914
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Sidney S.
Crawford
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1914-1919
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Jeff D. McIlroy
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1919-1921
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Sidney S.
Crawford
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1921-1925
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C.G.
Herman
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1925-1926
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Sebern
Davis
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1927-1929
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Sebern J.
Davis
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William
Hill
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1931-1934
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Mack I.
Ledgerwood
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1935-1942
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Champ
Crawford
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1942-1943
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Sidney S.
Crawford
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1943-1946
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Homer
Hillard
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1947-1950
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William
(Bill) L.
Russell
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1950-1951
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Paul
Russell
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1951-1966
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Robert E.
Pritchard
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1967-1974
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William
(Dee)
Gober
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1975-1986
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Robert
(Bobby) F. Pritchard
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Gordon
McCain
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1991-1999
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Keneth
Ross
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Jim
Easom
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2001-Present
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Reed
Haynes
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A Special Thanks to Mr.
Norman Powell and the folks at the Franklin County Library, the Ozark
Spectator, and the Ozark Courthouse.
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