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IlUMEXIII. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1913. NUMBER 1 HI.
HUE BARNES
STANDS TRIAL
. Murder of Her Husband
Hlly Barnes— Pennington
Assault Case Next.
[he second murder case of
s term of circuit court was
,rd Friday, when Mollie
mes, a middle aged negress
s placed on trial for the kill
of her husband Billy Barnes,
ng charged with murder in
i first degree.
[he testimony of some of the
nesses and of the defendant
de out a good case of self-de
se. A number of Newport
iness mfen being used to
w that Barnes was a quarrel
ie,overbearing and dangerous
1, who drank to excess and
sed his wife.
he shooting occurred Sun
, September 17th at the
ne of the negroes on the Is
d and came about after a
rrel between the two and
ir threatened separation.
! woman testified that Barnes
i advancing toward her with
eats ana inat sne snot mm to
vent him getting the gun and
ing her.
|.M. Erwin as prosecuting at
ley represented the state and
es and Campbell the defend
'He case of Wilbur Penning
, who shot Officer J. U. Ard
was indicted for assault
h intent to kill, is on call and
be next heard. Pennington
eing defended by Grant &
;k.
IKET RECORD IN BRIEF,
ity of Newport versus Gran
i Burton, appeal dismissed at
of defendant.
ity of Newport versus Sam
»appeal from mayor’s court,
of guilty, amount of fine to
igreed upon
ity of Newport versus Cora
s, appeal dismissed at cost of
indant.
ity of Newport versus Ed
ham, appeal dismissed at
of defendant.
ity of Newport versus W. A.
s, appeal dismissed at cost of
ndant.
tate versus Luther Alton,
:ery; continued and set for
Tuesday.
ity of Newport versus Joe
tton, appeal dismissed at
of defendant.
tate versus Annie Cooper, as
t and battery; continued
term.
Logging Party Marooned.
Hope, Sept. 18.—A race be
tween motor ears and a lumber
ing donkey-propelled wagon has
resulted from the delay to the
Southern National Highway log
ging party, marooned here be
cause of impassable roads. W.
O. L- Westegaard, in an attempt
to push his car through Crewe’s
bottoms near Emmet, eight
miles from here, came upon a
man named Andrews, whom he
J recognized as a sojourner from
I Los Angeles, en route to Hot
I Springs. Andrews is driving
two donkeys to a wagon and has
| spent four months on his jour
ney. He left Los Angeles while
Mr. Westegaard was in that city.
The donkeys were unable to
pull Andrews’ wagon out of the
thick mud in the bottom road,
and Andrews -was forced to
await until help was offered by
the party, which has followed
his trail in less than one-fourth
the time it took him. When the
members of the Westegaard par
ty assisted in releasing the wa
gon from the mud, Andrews con
tinued on toward Hot Springs,
declaring that he would beat the
motor cars to the resort city.
Tonight Mr. Westegaard said
he would not make a new start
for Hot Springs until Saturday.
Organize New Company
j Special to Independent.
1 Little Rock, Sept. 19.—The
Estes Title Index Co- of Little
|Rock has just been incorporated
i in the office of the Secretary of
| State. The officers and stock
i holders are E. L. McHaney, pres
ident, George W. Murphy, vice
I president, and T. L-Bond, Secre
jtary. The principal purpose of
i the company is to make and sell
j “Indexes for abstracts of con
: veyances and other records af
I fecting land titles,” patented by
j Ambrose W. Estes, of Little
j Rock, formerly of Yellville, Dec.
112, 1911. The company has an
: authorized capital of $250,000,
' of which $100,000 is preferred
t stock. Three hundred dollars of
| of the stock is actually paid in.
King May Recover
Joe King of Pitts, who is re
ported to be a merchant and land
owner there, was operated on
i Thursday afternoon by Dr. O. E.
Jones, who removed that part of
the fractured skull, which was
pressing on the brain.
The operation was successful
and King is reported to be get
ting along well, with chances fa
voring his recovery.__
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NOT SO SURE
SHE MARRIED
I
—
j Adams of Paraould Who Had
Been Arrested On Charges
of May re Burton.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept- 18.—Wil
lard G. Adams, 19 years old, a
j former East St. Louis High
[school pupil, and at present em
ployed in a St. Louis department
| store, was arrested by the East
St. Louis police, who are invest
igating the story told by Miss
'Mayre Burton, 18 years old, of
Wynne, Ark., a college girl, un
der arrest on a charge of obtain
ing 850 from the Illinois State
I Bank of East St. Louis by means
i of a bogus draft,
j She said at the time of her ar
! rest that Adams had induced
| her to marry him while they
i were seated in an automobile at
Paragould, Ark., and that he in
duced her to meet him in St.
Louis. She says she learned the
marriage was a bogus one- When
confronted by Adams today she
Lsaid she was not positive that he
was the man who entered into
; the bogus marriage with her.
She said she had never lived
jwith him.
Adams denies her story. He
. says his parents live in Para
gould, but that he never had any
dealings with Miss Burton. Ad
ams bears a good reputation,
and when arrested last evening
he was at the home of a young
| woman on Summit avenue, to
jwhom he has been very atten
tive. Friends say that it was in
order to continue his courtship
of this young woman that he re
turned to East St. Louis after
i the family moved to Paragould.
IMAYRE BURTON WAS HERE
While the story told to the St.
Louis authorities by Miss Mayre
Burton, formerly of Wynne,
i now in trouble for cashing a
j worthless check, Has been rath
j er discredited, it is now known
■ that she did visit Newport the
i past summer and tried to secure
'a church here in w’hich to give
an entertainment of readings,
claiming to be an elocutionist
and impersonator.
; She arrived in Newport Sun
iday, July 13 upon No. 3 and was
registered at the Hazel, leaving
the following night upon No. 18.
She is described as being only
about 4 feet, 10 inches in height,
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icious. When registering, she
gave her home as Wynne, Ark
ansas. A young man whose
name is said to have been Adams
from Walnut Ridge and who is
also reported to have been a
soda fountain dispenser, visited
Miss Burton here the day follow
| ing her arrival, but so far as any
^ock marriage ceremony hav
j ing been perforated bygt bogu>
| minister on one of our main bus
! iness streets, is concerned, there
is probably no foundation for
j her story.
10,234 Teachers In State,
j Special to Independent,
i Little Rock, Sept. 19.—There
j is a total of 10,234 school teach
‘ ers in the public schools of Ark
ansas, according to statement
just prepared by the Department
of Education. In 1909 there
were 9,522
Of the number now reportec
in the state, there are 8,201
‘ white, of whom 4,355 are female
! and 3,830 male. There are 2,021
colored, of whom 868 are male
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Fosses Hunt For Murderer.
Forrest City, Sept. 18.—The
search for M. Etley Williams, un
der suspicion of having shot and
killed his divorced wife at Colt
Tuesday, continued all day
through this (St- Francis) coun
ty and the adjoining county of
Cross without result. It has
been established, however, that
Williams did not kill himself as
had been thought, and the otti
cers have little doubt that he is
still alive.
Deputy Sheriffs John Tankers
ley and Charles Walker, who
hunted William's last night,
return to visit his children, re
when it was thought he might
turned today and reported that
they had found no recent trace
of the fugitive. They found,
however, that Williams had eat
en breakfast yesterday morn
ing at the home of a negro nam
ed Allen east of L’Anguille river.
The deputies said that they
found the residents of Colt in a
state of terror. It is said that
the hunted man has made
threats to kill five persons.
These are his stepdaughter, his
brother, N. G- William's; Justice
of the Peace John Taylor of Tel
ico Township, Deputy Sheriff
Jack Allen and a man named
Evans.
Bud Dorris, a merchant of
Colt, who brought the first news
of the killing of Mrs. Williams to
Forrest City, said before return
ing home today, that he intends
to call a mass meeting of the
residents of Colt and organize
them into posses for the purpose
of hunting down Williams.
Raided Game In Progress.
Sheriff J. F. McCuistion, assist
ed by his deputy, Boss Ray,
“slipped up” on a bunch of negro
crap shooters, while a game was
in progress near the Lake Thurs
day afternoon.
The officers had a “tip” that a
game was on back of a certain
house and securing the laundry
wagon were right upon the
scene before the sentries knew
that the wagon contained the
sheriff. There was a great scur
rying in every direction just as
if a dog had flushed a bevy of
birds and out of about fifteen
participants, who left money and
dice upon the ground, five were
captured and their cases have
been placed before the grand
jury.
The five arrested negroes
were Gus Smith, Bud Jurden,
Charley Johnson, “Big Boy from
the gravel pit” and Jim Owens,
all of whom are in jail except
one, who gave bond.
Brundidge Not Through.
Little Rock, Sept. 19.—“I am
not through with politics and
have not forgotten the last cam
paign,” said Stephen Brundidge,
candidate for governor in the
stormy primary of last July,
when interviewed at his home in
Searcy last night over the long
distance telephone.
“The statement that I was
through with politics might be
misunderstood by my friends
and I am certain would be mis
leading to rrty enemies. I am
now more fully determined than
ever to take a keen interest in
the fight for honest government
and against the rule of machine
politics.”
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INDICT ST. FRANCIS
LEVEE BOARD
Members At Marion and Papers
Are In Hands of Sheriff
Barton.
Marion, Ark., Sept. IS.—An
nouncement was made tonight
by Sheriff Louis Barton of Crit
tenden county that indictments
against various members of the
St. Francis Levee Board of Ark
ansas had been placed in his
hands for service. Other than
that the alleged indictments,
which be said were among those
returned by theCrittenden coun
ty grand jury today, referred
generally to the administration
of the affairs of the board, Mr.
Barton refused to make public
the nature of the charges.
Barton said members of the
Board will be required to report
at Marion at once.
Tonight’s developments came
as a climax to differences be
tween members of the board and
residents of the territory bor
dering the Mississippi river and
protected by levees under its ju
risdiction, the dispute dating
back to the floods of last spring,
when the fight to hold the levees
intact was unsuccessful. The
dispute culminated recently in
the removal of Eugene Williams
as treasurer of the board, his re
instatement at a subsequent
meeting and the refusal of H. W.
Morrison, named to succeed Wil
liams when he was deposed, to
turn over the books to Williams
when he was reinstated.
Several days ago complaint
was made to Gov. George W.
Hays by tax payers of several
counties along the river front as
to the conduct of the board’s af
fairs and in an effort to adjust
the differences, the governor is
sued a call for a mass meeting of
citizens to be held at Marion,
September 30.
Elston Brewer’s Murderer (o
Hang.
Batesville, Sept. 1!)—G. W.
and Frank Brewer, father and
uncle of Elston Brewer, who was
killed by Sol L. Johnson at
Vicksburg, Miss., in July, have
returned from Mississippi,where
they went to attend Johnson's
trial.
The trial of Johnson was held
at Port Gibson, on a change of
venue, and was started Monday
morning. Before night Tues
day Johnson had been found
guilty of the murder and sen
tenced to hang, the date of the
execution being fixed by the
court.
Johnson confessed to the mur
der, but claimed extenuating cir
cumstantes. The theory here
is that he killed Brewer for his
money and to obtain possession
of the boat in which they had
made the trip down the river
together. Johnson was not
known in this section, and his
people are not known here. He
met young Brewer at Newport,
and they arranged the trip to
gether, Brewer footing the bills
for all the expenses.
Johnson murdered Brewer
! while he was asleep, and threw
! "his body into the river. It was
| one of the coldest and most
; cowardly crimes ever heard of.
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