MRS. B. E. BLACK
MAKES STATEMEN1
Denying Substance of Former
Interview—Says Sanctity of
Marriage Vow Was
Violated.
The Muskogee Times, which
published a statement from Mrs.
B. E. Black at the’ time of the
j^fUrder of Wm. Greer by her
husband, in which the dead man
was held wholly guiltless of any
wrong-doing, has written a letter
to that paper in which the sub
stance of her previous interview
is not only denied, but her own
good name questioned doubtless
in order to save the life of her
husband.
Has Mrs. Black sacrificed her
own good name to lessen the
penalty of her husband’s crime?
This is the question which pre
sents itself, after this latest cor
respondence and those who know
Mrs. Black and how she has
clung to a brutal husband, how
' she has suffered his cruelty and
blows wdrile crazed with drink,
believe that her love is even
capable of this sacrifice and that
she would thus perjure and
blacken her good name in order
to save from the gallows the one
to whom her troth was plighted.
MRS. BLACK’S LATEST LETTER.
The following is Mrs. Black’s
letter, written from Corsicana,
Texas, January 27th, to the edi
tor of the Muskogee Evening
Times:
“After several days of medita
the heaviness of my h art
\\‘ JFforced me, amid tears and
grief, and with a broken heart I
desire in my own uninterrupted
freedom and speaking the truth
to state that I cannot refrain
from telling the story of the
trouble which now enthralls my
husband,the victim of an outrage
perpetrated upon the sanctity of
his home by William Greer.
“I speak, I know, in the pres
ence of an ever living God, be
fore whom we must sooner or
later appear.
“I do not believe as I sit in
this august presence that there
Iiitaci in nAuntrir onu man
with a particle of pride or self
respect that would have done
different from what my husband
did and what he was compelled
to do in honor and defense of his
home and the protection of his
own life.
“There are people in Muskogee
who know enough to justify Dr.
Black in all that he has done.
“There are those also there
who have spoken in my behalf,
for which they are entitled to
neither credit nor thanks. I can
not bear to see an innocent man
punished if I could help it, but I
am sorry to say that I am help
less to^afford any relief,
fcv “I feel confident that Dr.
Black will never live with me
again, and no one can attach any
blame to him. I shall, however,
not while I live, forget the happy
days I have spent with my hus
band in a once happy home. I
pray God to forgive me for any
wrong that I may have commit
ted. It shall be my determina
tion, while I live out a miserable
existence, to be guided by Him
who alone can grant immunity
from the sins we may have com
mitted.
“I was put in jail for a time
and was frightened almost to
death; I was induced by others
to make the statement which you
published some time ago, but oh
people of this great country, a
strange woman in a strange land
has a hard row to hoe and they
know not the true from the un
true, and myse^ are t0°
often misadvised.
“It is awful to think and to
realize how some women are as
sailed, overcome, ruined a,nd for
! ever disgraced.
“I appeal to my God to uphold
me in the truths in what I have
herein stated, and He will.
“Respectfully,
“Mrs. Beatrice Black.”
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OYSTER FARM.
Memphis Capitalists Interested
in Pocahontas Venture.
Pocahontas, Feb. 4. —Col. H.
G. Cary of Springfield and R. S.
Kirkpatrick of Newport, two
well known commercial sales
men, are making arrangements
to found a new industry at this
place. They have completed
preparations and plans for the
establishment of an oyster farm
on the shoals of Black river just
above town. A couple of Mem
phis capitalists are interested in
the venture.
BAPTIST CHURCH BAZAAR.
The Helping Hand of the
Baptist church will give a no
tion bazaar March 31st next, j
Place will be mentioned later.
As all the other churches of the
city have been before the public
and have been well received, and
as this is the initial bazaar for
| the Baptists, they shall expect
and should receive the liberal:
p'atronage and support of all,
which they hereby respectfully
and earnestly solicit.
LONG TERMS IN PEN. '
Will Johnson and Fletcher Ham
ilton Con victed of Robbery
By Juries.
Will Johnson and Fletcher
Hamilton, the two negroes who j
held up and robbed Ike Graham
along the Iron Mountain track
Monday night, were convicted
Thursday afternoon by juries in ;
4-La ai UAH aaiim4- a v\ rl AriiTAVI 1 AV» /v* !
viiv wwi v uiiu 51 r vu ivug
terms in the penitentiary, the
former ten years and the latter
four.
BOTH PLEAD GUILTY.
Ike Harris and Carrie Wallace,
the two negroes who carried on
an organized thieving from the
store of the Wolff-Goldman Mer
cantile Company until detected,
plead guilty to the charge of re
ceiving stolen property and were
given a year each in the peni
tentiary by the court.
I COURT ADJOURNS OVER SUNDAY.
Friday morning the petit jury
was excused until Monday morn
ing, the court adjourning over
I until that date. The criminal
docket has been almost com
pleted, with the exception of the j
case of Wm. Galloway, charged
with assault with intent to kill,!
which goes over until next Fri
day.
The grand jury returned three
indictments Thursday and four
| teen Friday morning, adjourning
until Tuesday morning, owing
to the sickness of the foreman,
Alcorn Ferguson.
FIRST WOOD CLUB.
We learn that the Democrats
of Jefferson township will meet 1
tonight at‘Hickory Grove for the
purpose of organizing the first i
Carroll D. Wood club in Jackson
county. There will doubtless be
organizations in every township |
before election day rolls around, j
ARKANSAN INSURED.
S. M. Powell of Little Rock
Knocked Down by the St.
Louis Assistant Fire
Chief’s Buggy.
St. Louis, Feb. 4. —S. M. Pow
ell of Little Rock, state agent for
Arkansas of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company, was
struck by a buggy driven by W.
G. Panzer, acting assistant fire
chief, at the corner of Broadway
and Walnut streets, yesterday
afternoon, receiving serious in
ternal injuries. Ed Heffernan, a
clerk in the New St. James
Hotel, saw the accident and car
ried Mr. Powell into the hotel,
where Dr. J. B. Coryell was
summoned.- It is thought Mr.
Powell’s spine is injured.
Mr. Powell was en route to
New York. Missing his train
connections he started for the
Southern Hotel and he had just
alighted from a Laclede avenue
car when the buggy struck him.
Heffernan says that the buggy
knocked Powell fifteen feet. He
says also that Panzer was not
ringing the gong.
Panzer stated that he was re
turning to the engine house at
No. 415 South Broadway; after
answering an alarm from Eighth
street and Washington avenue,
and was driving slowly. He says
that Powell was watching the
car and walked in front of the
buggy. It was too late to give
an alarm, and he jerked the
horse to one side, striking Powell
with the front wheel. Panzer
stopped his horse at Elm street
and returned to the hotel.
Mr. Powell has a wife and one
child living at Little Rock, Ark.
They were notified of the acci
dent by telegraph that night.
The matter was not reported to
the police. Dr. Coryell stated
that the injured man could not
be removed from the hotel for
sevei'al days.
WHITE COUNTY
IS CHANGING.
Hon. John T. Hicks Says That
it is Considered Safe for
Judge Wood.
Hon. John T. Hicks has just
returned from a visit to his old
home in White county, says the
Little Rock Democrat, and brings
a most encouraging report as to
the sentiment prevalent there in
the gubernatorial situation. He
says that there are rapid and de
cided changes in favor of Judge
Wood all over the county, and
that at the present rate it will
be safely landed in the Wood
column, although it is one which
the Davis people have been
claiming.
The grand jury at Searcy was
polled last wreek and stood 8 for
Wood, 0 for Davis and 8 an
nounced that they would keep
out of the primary.
Searcy township, one of the
largest in the county, is over
whelmingly in favor of Judge
Wood. The Wood club at Beebe
has developed unexpected
strength and now has a member
ship of over seventy. Russell
township with from 140 to 160
votes, has only one avowed Da
vis man.
FOR SALE!
240 acres of land, 140 in culti
vation, with four houses, raised
50 bales of cotton the past season,
six miles from Newport, 3 miles
from Jacksonport. Eighty acre
pasture at Jacksonport, frame
store house of two good rooms
at Jacksonport.
29blmo. J. M. Grubbs.
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