THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, Missouri, Friday, Nov. 30, 1917. "RED" THURMAN IS IN JAIL AT HILLSBORO. Assistant City Marshal Livingston caused the arrest of a woman known as "Red" Thurman, at DeSoto last Thursday night and thereby won the fifty dollar reward that had been offered for her return to the authorities of Jefferson County. She is under indictment in that county for the crime of miscegenation*, having married a negro named Cantrell there a year or so ago. She was arrested after the indictment was found along with her negro husband, but being released under bond, skipped her bail and hid out at Joplin, Mo., where Marshal Livingston located her and got her to come back to this sectin. She is now in jail at Hillsboro. Cantrell has already served his time for this offense. -- Potosi Journal. "Red" has been a cancer on society in the Lead Belt for many years and recently was driven from this county by the prosecuting attorney. She has already served one term in the penitentiary. Her late escapade should result in her being confined where her evil influence and allround degeneracy will not further menace society. [Anyone know what Red's real first name was?] *Miscegenation laws, were laws that banned interracial marriage and sometimes interracial sex between whites and members of other races.