Newport Daily Independent.
VOLUME IV. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1904. NUMBER 207.
DOUBLE MURDER
MARS CHRISTMAS.
Awful Crime Christmas
Morning Almost in
Limits of City.
C3MMIT RAPE AND MURDER.
Body of One Woman is Found
Horribly Mutilated and An
other Supposed to Have
Been Thrown Into White
River.
The Christmas of 1904 is to be
memorable for its crimes. Under
the mask of festivity the passions
of brutes have broken forth and
lamentation goes up over our
whole land over the many sho k
ing outrages that have resu ;,ed
from the excesses of celebration.
Under ,ery walls of our
wt.ya double murder, to hide
if possible, a more fiendish crime,
lido uccii Luuimxttcu in v_.ii vac*j -
light upon a public highway.
Upon Christmas morn, when
men’s hearts are supposed to
warm with best impulses, have
these fiendish horrors stained the
reputation of this community
and brought consternation among
a people who resent deeply the
* double crime of this dual tragedy
and would bring speedy punish
ment to its perpetrators.
The villainy of unknown men
has claimed two victims, Mrs.
Mauldin, a bride of but a few
weeks, whose mutilated body
was found beneath the second
bridge on the Jacksonport road,
and her mother, Mrs. Rachel
Kinkannon, whose watery graye
has not yet given up the mystery
of her awful death.
Christmas morning, about 8
o’clock, these two women, living
across White river from this city,
Were rowed across to the New
port bank by the son of the elder
lady, bound upon a mission of
charity and love. The husband
of the girl lay upon a sick bed in
Jacksonport, suffering from
pneumonia, and with a few
small Christmas remembrances—
for they were poor—the mother
and daughter had set out to ad
minister to his illness and bring
pViopj* nntn Vila hprVaiHp
They walked upon the Choctaw
track, as the recent rains had
muddied the road, and were seen
to pass the pearling camps at the
Confederate park about 8:30
■ o’clock by J. W. Stafford and R.
, B. Nicholson. The former has
also testified that he saw two
men following, probably a quar
5 ter of a mile behind, who should
have been able to catch up with
the two women near the second
^^idge, where the crime oc
curred.
James Thomas, a negro hack
f • driver for Hobgood & Robinson,
was driving a party to Jackson
ij port that morning and testified
j| before the inquest hearing that
he passed the women and cor
roborates Stafford’s story of two
men following, one of whom he
thought was white and the other
I a negro.
■ / Upon the return of the driver
I from his Jacksonport trip, be
< neaththe second bridge above
J the park he. discovered the body
of the murdered woman, who
proved to be Mrs. Mauldin, and
he forthwith hastened to New
port to report his story to the
proper officers, who went imme
diately to the scene, and the
story of the mystery is perhaps
best told in the evidence brought
; out in the inquest hearing before
| Justice Guy Smith.
.
MURDER INVESTIGATED.
.
Sunday a jury was impanelled
and early next morning, with
Prosecuting Attorney Oldfield
! present, the testimony of all who
could throw any light upon the
tragedy was taken. Five men,
J. C. Fields, two brothers and
two other men from Marior
county, who had camped the
night previous to the murdei
near Jacksonport,were overtaker
by Sheriff H. S. Simmons in In
dependence county, for they hac
crossed the river at the Jackson
port ferry, were soon dismissec
as it became evident they wer<
not the guilty parties, and onl]
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