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12 • SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009
COURTHOUSE MEMORIES • THE SEA COAST ECHO
Photo courtesy of Shirley Turcotte
This photo was taken in the Hancock County Jail behind the courthouse possibly in the '40s. Pictured are from left is believed to be Sheriff John Egloff, Bay St. Louis Police Chief Alcine Saucier, Constable Nolan Kingston and unidentified officer. Egloff served from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1952 to 1956.
officials to question how much of the 19th century jail was actually demolished and how much was new construction.
Hurricanes and cowboys cannot harm the courthouse:
The 1947 Hurricane and 1964's Hurricane Betsy both caused damage to the courthouse, but each time, it was renovated and brought back to life.
In the late 1950s, the courthouse was home to yet another nationwide murder trial when a rodeo cowboy by the name of Dale Morris stood trial for murdering a Waveland man while stealing a tire from the man's front yard.
The Morris case would see two mistrials, Morris' escape and recapture in California, and even an assassination plot again District Attorney Boyce Holliman. Eventually, Morris pled guilty and received a lighter sentence.
The case did not end there, however. A few years later, Morris escaped from the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Morris' escape led Gov. Ross Barnett to famously tell Mississippi reporter Bill Minor "If you can't trust a trusty, who can you trust?"
Who shot Mrs.
Carmichael's monkey?
During the '40, '50s, and '60s, Jeanette Carmichael published "The Light" newspaper from her home at 146 Main St., only a few doors down from the courthouse.
Carmichael was known for her scathing editorials about political figures and once put a supervisor candidate on the front page of her paper wearing prison garb.
"Mrs. Carmichael is remembered for her editorials," her obituary said. "She chastised all whom she thought needed it."
If the editorials were not enough to promote Carmichael as a controversial figure, some say her pet monkey was a living terror to citizens who walked up and down Main Street.
One day, the monkey got loose and ran all over town only to be confronted by Deputy Welton Ladner.
In an interview with
Ladner in 2008, the 93-year-old Ladner said he took full responsibility for shooting the monkey.
"When I saw the monkey, it ran towards Second Street,"
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