f MOB LYNCHES
WHITE FATHER
And Mulatto Son But Spared
Life Of Negress Mo
ther.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 27. —
Charles Malpass, the white fa
ther of the two negroes killed
yesterday wThen Sheriff Preston
and Deputy Sheriff Steil of Pu
laski county were killed by ne
groes at Dumas, was lynched by
a mo]4 in that town early this
morning. The old man had
been desperately wounded in
the battle with the officers. His
fifteen year old son, a mulatto,
was also lynched but the life of
the negress mother was spared.
^ Barney Steil Brought Home ,
Little Rock, Sept. 27.—Thej
remains of Barney Steil, deputy;
sheriff of Pulaski county, killed |
while trying to assist Sheriff W.
D. Preston of Desha county in;
f arresting some negroes near Du
mas Tuesday, will be brought;
home today, Sheriff B. L. Rob-;
erts and other officers from Lit
tle Rock accompanying them,
back to the city. These officers;
went to Dumas Tuesday evening,
• after the news of the killing!
reached Little Rock. j
Barney Steil was in Dumas j
_i. i» • n j ji i i • i
wim mo wuc, at me ueuoiue u± j
• Mrs. Steil’s mother. Sheriff W. |
D. Preston Tuesday started to!
the Arkansas river bottoms
with a posse to arrest Lee and
Tom Malpass, for some minor
crime. Barney Steil was in Du
mas and was asked to join the
party, willingly accepting the
'invitation.
In the two automobiles were
Sheriff Preston and Deputies
Courtney of Arkansas City, Ike
Bankston and W. A. Nuckolls
of Walnut Lake, and Mid Robin
son of Dumas. When the party
arrived at the farm being work-;
ed by the Malpass negroes, Sher
iff Preston and the party alight- j
• ed and Preston advised the oth-j
" er officers to surround the house i
and permit him to go to thej
front and endeavor to make the |
arrest without trouble. This j
the other officers refused to'
agree to and it was finally , set
tled that they should go up the!
• back of the house and‘Sheriff
§ Preston then go to the front.
This plan was followed andj
three waited in the rear, while |
I Barney Steil followed Sheriff;
II Pr§st$>n. As Preston entered ’
» the house he was shot down by j
SR one <*f the negroes in the back J
hot, the i
,T but as
he Mai- j
were at- j
le house j
is shot, j
'took to
the re-j
and one j
i young
e party,
lness of!
ime has
Malpass
ded and j
es lived;
i South!
ays waSj
I the of
d him.
fired a
1, which
ded the|
sheriff,
*98, and
ess offi-!
■HHHH raised in
Little Rock, and has for a num
ber of years been connected with
the office of the sheriff of Pulas
ki county, he being a splendid
officer. Excitement was high
about Dumas last night, but as
no other negroes but the Mal
pass outfit were implicated, no
further outbreak took place.
Barney Steil was a prominent
member of the Little Rock lodge
of Elks and formerly served as
Worthy President of the state
association of Eagles.
Night and Day Bank Closed.
Little Rock, Sept. 27.—The
doors of the Night and Day
Bank of Little Rock were closed
Tuesday afternoon, when on
petition of D, A. Frayser, re
ceiver of the All Day and Night
bank of Memphis, the local in
stitution was placed in' the,
hands of W. M. Lewis as receiv
er. To banking circles, the fail
ure of this bank was no sur
prise, as it had been expected
for several days, though local
institutions were making an ef
fort to prevent it.
According to the petition of
Receiver Frayser of the Mem
phis institution, the local bank
is indebted to the Memphis con
cern ‘to the extent of $3100. Re
ceiver Frayser claims the local
bank claimed to hold certificates
of deposit to the amount of
$2225, but these were fraudu
lently issued to Robert H. Tim
mons, and he alleges they came i
into the hands of the local with
out right. According to the
complaint, the president of the
local bank, H. C. Wynne is a di
rector of the Memphis bank,
and that he knew the certifi
cates of deposits were fraudu
lently issued, and that he paid
nothing for them.
Boost The River Bridge.
While assurances of at least
$25,000 have been practically
made by local people who would ■
help the building of a bridge!
over White River, Mr. Sol Heine
behalf of this great improve
ment has pledges of $15,000.
mann, the most active worker in
These are published below.
Small subscriptions may help
a little but they will never build
such a bridge and to the men of
means, who have the wherewith
to make investments is the ap
pea urgently directed to get be
hind this enterprise and assure
its realization. Bridge WThite
River and you give Newport a
trade territory second to none
that would greatly increase the
value of every othtr local in- J
vestment.
Subscriptions Pledged.
Mantooth Bros.. .$1000
Mack Bi’os. 1000
R. T. Simmons ....._ 1000
S. Heinemann . 1000
Gustave Jones. 1000
Con Dean. 1000
Farmers Bank.1000
McLain & Holden. 1000 j
N. B. Wishon . 1000
T. D. Kinman . 1000
W. B. Chastain . 800
Dr. G. K. Stephens. 500
Jos. M. Berger. 500
C. Bach . 500
Rogers Hardware Co. ... 500
W. W. Dutton. 500
O. M. Bowen .500
W. I. Long. 500
I. D. Price . 200
Sajja Gist . 200
J. W. Wallace-. 100
C. R. Hite. 100
Joe Bevens . 100
P. H. Van Dyke. 100
Dr. H. O. Walker. 100
J. L. Younger. 100
B. W. Jamison. 100 1
ARGUMENT ON 7>
!N HYDRICK CASE
Defendant Took Stand And
Told His Story Of Shoot
ing of Lee Mercing.
At 2:30 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon, both sides rested in
the presentation of testimony
in the trial of Isom Hydrick
charged with the murder of Lee
Mercing upon July 22, 1911, and
the instructions of the court
were read to the jury.
Both the state’s attorneys W.
P. Smith and Claucle M. Erwin
will address the jury and Judge
M. M. Stuckey and G. L. Grant
will plead for the defendant.
The case is expected to reach
the jury late this afternoon or
at an evening session of court.
The defendant went upon the
stand in his own behalf to tell
the story of the shooting and
the incidents leading to same.
He testified that Mercing had
butted into him on Walnut
street and on the evening of the
tragedy had cursed him as they
passed upon the crossing from
Barker’s to Parish’s store, that
Mercing had come to his store
three times before the shooting
and he had asked him Mercing
to stay out.
The defendant said that oth
ers had told him of Mercing’s
threats against his life and that
he had armed himself in self
defense, that Mercing when shot
had advanced two steps inside
the door and had drawn a re
volver.
While Hydrick was very ner
vous and gave a very poor narra
tive of the incidents leading up
to the shooting, which had to be
drawn out of him by Judge
Stuckey,- there was nothing ma
terial upon which he contradict
ed himself or weakened. He
certainly made a very weak wit
ness and hardly a favorable im
pression upon the jury, due
largely to the way in which he
answered under cross examina
tion and his failure to grasp eas
ily the interrogations of his own
counsel.
The testimony of the state
was much the same as before
the coroner’s inquest. Several
negroes were introduced to dis
credit the story of Hydrick, to
show that Mercing had not en
tered the Hydrick store when
shot, but was passing on the
walk in front of same, also to
discredit the pistol found upon
Miller’s porch as being the prop
erty of Mercing.
me ueiense pm. un ivvu im
portant witnesses in S. U.
Churchwell, a farmer living on
the Brandenburg place and Roy
Soward, each of whom testified
that he saw Mercing draw a re
volver as he entered the Hy
drick store. Churchwell was
just coming into town on a
mule and the animal becoming
frightened at the shooting, he
turned around and went home.
Soward testified that he had
an appointment to meet Merc
ing, that the latter was to se
cure him some whiskey. Wit
ness said that he saw a man up
on a mule come across the:
bridge just before the shooting.'
He had just tied his own horse:
back of the livery stable and
came into the street between
Miller’s and the two story house
as Mercing entered Hydrick’s
and drew a revolver.
Albert Churchwell, a witness
for the state, who was beyond
Sharp’s store when the shoot
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^mg took place, also testified
that he thought he saw a pistol
in Mercing’s hand,
i The negroes, who were upon
the walk near the store, contra
dicted the story of these wit
j nesses and upon the jury will de
volve the duty of judging the
respective and collective cred
ibility of the witnesses upon
i both sides.
Oil On Troubled Waters.
What promised to be a deli
cate and embarrassing issue be
; fore the council in a request for
! the extension of the city fire
| limits to include a half block on
Hazel street between Second and
Third streets was amicably and
! satisfactorily settled Tuesday,
when oil was poured upon the
troubled waters by Alderman
Wishon, who has assumed the
| role of a Henry Clay.
By agreement the Stayton es
{tate give up their project of a
large boarding house on that
property to be constructed by
combining two of. the present
frame buildings in that block
and the request for an extension
TO IMMORTALIZE
THE GOVERNOR
Capitol Visitor Has Plan To Kill
Army Worms And Other
Pests.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 27.—A wild
eyed individual giving his name
as Wolf and his residence as the
United States called at the cap
itol yesterday to see the govern
or in order to present a great
project for the killing of the
army worms and all the pests
| that infest cotton. But the gov
j ernor was at Hope telling the
' good people about the Turner
Jacobson bill, and he was re
I i
ferred to Deputy Agricultural
Commissioner Hutchins, t o
whom he unfolded a project as
! tremendous and far-reaching as
mind ever conceived.
Basing his deductions upon .
what he claimed to be the pecu
liar habits of the destructive in-.
sects, he said that the only way
to combat the evil is to clean-out
| all the fence corners, and then ]
! leave around the fields a strip of (
nrmlimtprl land t.pn fppf across. ,
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XXKfOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
IN SOCIETY.
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Entertain At Bridge.
Mrs. Estelle Claridge
Miss Annie Laurie Lindsey
:ertained delightfully at Bridge
ruesday afternoon in compli
ment to their house guests,
Misses Frankie and Josie Lind
sey of Luskin, Texas.
The games were enjoyed dur
ing the afternoon, which was
concluded with a delicious salad
course, the whole proving a
rery pleasant affair.
Those present were Misses
Frankie and Josie Lindsey, Bes
sie Watson, Jamie and Elizabeth
Irby, Kate Harder, .. Margaret
Beattie, Hortense Hite, Fran- s
cheUe Hooker, Mary Sprigg,
Lucy Bailey and Carrie Stev- j
3ns; Mesdames John W. St
:on, Geo. L. Grant, Rex McC
:ion, Geo. K. Stephens and
3ert Watson.
Organize Bridge Club.
A number of the yo
narried people met with I
Charles G. Henry Tuesday
ernoon and organized -
I ox me nre limits is ctroppect oy
[•other property owners of that
! section of the city.
This compromise having been
effected no further meeting of
the council was necessary.
Wedding Day Announced.
Mr. and Mrs. Abram Law
rence Johnson of Hope have
mailed cards to friends announc
ing the approaching marriage
of their daughter, Hazel Bar
ton, to Mr. Lon Lee Campbell
of this city, the marriage
ceremony to be solemnized at
the Methodist church at Hope,
Arkansas Wednesday evening
October the eleventh at eight
thirty o’clock.
In advance of the pre-nuptial
event Newport friends extend
congratulations and best wishes.
Ask Pardon For Johnson.
A petition for the pardon of
George Johnson, sent to the pen
itentiary for three years, is be
ing circulated in this city, but
is meeting with much opposi
tion.
Babbitt Metal 10c lb. at In
pendent office 51htf
I
This is to be covered half an ■
j inch with coal tar, so that when ,
the weevils and the worms at
tempted to cross fo the cotton, ,
they would get their feet stuck ■
in the tar and starve to death
before they could be rescued. In
this way the cotton would be
saved.
It would cost a great deal of
money to buy the coal tar, but
he suggested that the governor
should call an extra session of
the Legislature to provide for
it, and that his political future
would then be secure. He said
his fame would resound from
the everglades of Florida to the
piney hills of Maine, and he
could have any office for the ask
ing, even to the presidency.
—
j
Foley’s Honey And
Tar Compounds
j Still retains its high place as the 1
| best household ^ remedy for all (
j coughs and colds, either for chil-'
dren or grown persons. Pre
vents serious results from cold.
Take only the genuine Foley’s (
Honey and Tar Compound, and
refuse substitutes. — W. E.
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