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R. A. SUIT ARRESTED.
Roger A. Suit, An Abstractor Em
ployed at Newport for Past Six
Months Held at Memphis for
t Forgery—Proves To Be
An Ex-Convict.
Roger A. Suit, formerly of Little
Rock, but for the six months prior to
May 20, a resident of Newport, has
been arrested at Memphis charged
; with forgery and attempting to pass
forged paper. The ^officers caught
him with a bogus check in his posess
ion and in offering explanations he
made a number of inconsistent and
contradictory statements.
The arrested man is an abstractor
of ability and experience, having
been in the employ of C. R. Hite dur
ing the winter months and later
worked for Stuckey & Stuckey in the
same capacity. On May 24, he went
to Swifton for the purpose of attend
ing to some collections for this paper
together with other business and was
never heard from again. He is known
to have taken the train north and was
registered a few days later at the
Commercial hotel inParagould. While
in Swifton he secured $5 from R. P.
snarp upon ms own cnecu on me
Bank of Newport, which proved to be
worthless.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
tells the following story of his capture
in that city upon Tuesday:
“On June 10, Suit came to Mem
phis and registered at Braun’s hotel,
at the corner of Washington and Main
streets. He has been stopping there
off and on ever since. Tuesday
morning he walked into the office of
the hotel, which is also the barroom,
and tried to get a check for $10 cashed.
It was made payable to R. A. Suit and
signed M. Gavin & Co., with the en
dorsement of the payee on the back.
The handwriting varied as between
the endorsement and the face of the
check. Braun notified the officers
and Sergeants Cole and Saint im
mediately placed Suit under arrest.
“On his person a lot of papers were
found, including several blank checks
of the First National Bank. The bo
gus check, which was found in his
possession was drawn on this bank.
He also had letters from the Bloeser
Distilling Co. of St. Louis, indicating
that he had been traveling for that
concern.
“Suit says that he has been drink
ing hard and offers no other excuse
for trying to have the worthless
check cashed. He represented him
self to Mr. Braun as having large busi
ness dealings with M. Gavin & Co.,
but he is not known by that firm.
Suit is about 45 years old, low of
stature and has short gray hair. His
eyes are gray and restless, and one is
slightly squinted.”
Suit is an ex-convict who was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for two
years from Jefferson county, having
been convicted in September 1899,
but wTas pardoned by Governor Davis
on April 13, 1901.
FRIGHTENED BY A MOB.
A posse of men, whose names are
not known, went to Jailor Thomas’
Tuesday night, and by force took his
keys, unlocked the jail doors, liberat
ed John Pettey, colored, took him
north of town and horse-whipped him,
put a rope about his neck, shot pistols
over his head and otherwise terror
ized him. After having thus punished
him he was turned loose and warned
to shake the dust of Searcy from his
feet and never come back again.
Pettey has been a bad negro in a
small way, for a long time, but it is
presumed the proceedings Tuesday
night were due to his conduct in re
sist g an officer that day.—Searcy
Citizen.
BANKER RITTER MUST SUFFER.
The Jonesboro Enterprise makes the
following comment anent the case of
Banker Ritter, whose conviction was
affirmed by the Supreme Court Satur
day:
“The case of the State of Arkansas
vs. W. H. Ritter came up for a hear
ing this week before the Supreme
Court, wb6re it was taken on appeal
from the Circuit Court of Greene
county, and the decision of the lower
court, which gives Ritter a term in
the pen, was by the higher court af
firmed, and so Mr. Ritter goes to the
pen. His attorney says that it is
likely that a motion for a new hearing
will be made, and if made will no
doubt be granted.
“But it is not likely that this will do
any good except to keep Ritter out of
the pen during the hot months. He
has contested every inch of ground in
his favor and has been represented
by the very ablest counsel, and at
every trial the preponderence of the
evidence has been against him. He
has fought a long losing game, as all
men must eventually do who do not
handle with care the money of other
people.”
CONVENTION IN TURMOIL.
Wynne, June 18.—Pandemonium
reigned supreme in the congressional
convention for one hour this afternoon
and it looked for a time as if serious
trouble would occur among the dele
gates from Mississippi county, with
Jno. B. and W. J. Driver and W. B.
Calhoun on one side and J. W.
Rhodes, John Lovell, nominee for
sheriff of that county, and J. L. Cas
ton on the other.
Mississippi has cast its vote solidly
for Macon since the first ballot, but it
was generally known that the Drivers
and Calhoun were personally for Tay
lor, and it has been whispered that
they would break away from Macon
in due time and cast three of Missis
sippi’s six votes for Taylor. The
break came this afternoon on the
569th ballot. On the previous thirty
or forty ballots Macon was within one
vote of the nomination and the Ma
con forces were delirious with joy at
having the plum so nearly within their
grasp and were momentarily expect
ing the one vote lacking. When the
vote on the 569th ballet was called
and Mississippi county was reached
John B. Driver addressed the chair
and cast three votes for Judge Taylor.
This precipitated a storm that lasted
for one hour.
DIRECTORATE ELECTED.
At the meeting Wednesday of the
stockholders of the Morning Star Rail
way Company, at their general offices
in this city, called for the purpose of
electing seven directors, the following
were chosen: C. H. Jackson, C. S.
Jackson, Samuel Russell, New York;
V. Y. Cook, Elmo; L. Minor, Joseph
M. Stayton and John W. Stayton.
Little other business was transacted
and nothing further that could be
given out. The directors elected will
meet Friday at the company’s offices
in this city.
Mr. E. D. Chadick, the chief pro
moter of the road is expected here
some time this week and active work
is expected to commence not later
than August first. T. D. Kinman Jr. who
has charge of the general offices here
has been kept busy the past week, se
curing options on the land, which will
be needed for right-of-wav and ter
minal facilities here in Newport, but
has about completed this line of work.
Prospects are apparently very fa
vorable for the construction of the
Morning Star and the confidence of
the local men who are in a position to
know most about the finance's behind
the enterprise remain as positive as
ever that the future will vindicate and
fulfill their predictions and promises.
SKULL BONE REMOVED
The white man, who was found
Tuesday morning near the Choctaw
depot with a badly fractured skull,
has been identified as Robert High,
who worked for Joe Runyan upon the
Minor farm. His condition i» regard
ed as very serious, with chances about
even for life and death. He was re
moved to the jail where he now rests
upon a cot, as comfortable as circum
stances will permit. On Wednesday
afternoon he underwent an operation,
portions of his skull bone being re
moved.
The patient still refuses to talk,
though he is conscious and apparently
in his right mind. It is thought that
he must have been slugged across the
head to have produced such injuries.
Huffman runs the only bread wagon
Grocery. d 19
ERB AFTER SOUTHERN OUTLET.
Newman Erb, president of the St.
! Louis, Memphis & Southeastern rail
road, according to the Commercial
Appeal, is negotiating for the pur
chase of the Memphis, Arkansas &
Texas Railroad Company’s right of
way and all its appurtenances from
Memphis to Shreveport, La., a dis
tance of over 300 miles.
Mr. Erb’s attorney and representa
tive in Memphis recently received
telegraph instructions from him to
confer with the Memphis, Arkansas &
Texas stockholders and advise him
the lowest price at which the property
could be acquired. His attorney has
had various conferences with the
stockholders of the Memphis, Arkan
sas & Texas, who meet in West Mem
phis next Saturday afternoon. No in
dividual stockholder could give a
definite option, but several of the
stockholders are assisting in engi
neering the deal.
SEARCH FOR LOST SON.
W. M. Gregg, agent for the Iron
Mountain here, is in receipt of a let
ter from J. W. Spencer of Pensacola,
Fla., desiring information of the
whereabouts of his son B. W. Spencer
who was last heard of at Newport.
me young man was on ms way 10
Batesville to visit and mysteriously
disappeared at Newport. His bag
gage is at the Iron Mountain depot,
but has never been called for or re
checked. Spencer was an Odd Fel
low and the letter of inquiry has
been turned over to Justice J. J. Mar
tin of that order for further inves
tigation.
Dr. E. R. Long came down from
Batesville Friday morning to meet his
nephew Arthur Jones from San An
tonio, Texas.
Dr. Ed Ponder came down from
Walnut Ridge on the noon train Wed
nesday returning home the next
morning after a visit with friends.
Misses Elsie and Katie Harrison are
expected here from Conway on their
way home to Auvergne. The former
attended college there and the latter
went over to spend commencement.
Dr. S. Q. Miller of Little Rock, an
eloquent pulpit orator, who is well
known to Newport audiences, came
up on No. 4 Thursday noon and will
lecture at the Methodist church to
night.
Constable Tucker brought up three
white prisoners from Grand Glaize
Thursday morning, who now have
quarters at the county jail. They are
charged with larceny and run the
total number of inmates to 16.
The public examination of teachers
for this county was begun at the
public school building on Walnut
Street Thursday morning and will
continue through Friday, being un
der the direction of J. D. Neal,
county examiner.
Only one of the negro crap-shooters
arrested Monday night was- con
victed, that one being Bud Jurden
Patterson. Love Grant defended
them and his success in keeping them
out of trouble’s way is giving him
quite a reputation as a criminal law
yer.
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