SEARCY AROUSED
OVER \Jf HTLE FRAUDS.
Whnt Proof That Lightle is Alive
Before Taking Action—May
Demand Resignation of
John Roberts From Dem
^ ocratic Ticket.
Searcy, Aug. 18.—The people
of Searcy are thoroughly aroused
oVer the attempt of Dr. Lightle
to defraud the insurance compa
nies, but demand that it be
shown positively that Lightle is
alive before any formal action
will be taken.
The names of two well known
men are mentioned in connection
with the case, but the authori
ties have taken no action and it
is understood will not until Dr.
Lightle is apprehended or some
definite information has been ob
tained as to his whereabouts.
The distinct sensation here to
day was the statement of J. V.
Roberts published this morning
in the Gazette, attempt;ng to ex
culpate Dr. Lightle and stating
tnat ne naa personal Knowledge
of a letter from the supposed
dead man over a month ago.
Roberts was expected to re
turn to Searcy today, but he did
rot come. He is said to be at
Wynne. Roberts is the Demo
cratic nominee for the legislature,
but there has been considerable
talk since the developments in
the Lightle case of holding a
mass meeting to ask him to
withdraw.
Sheriff J. P. Wood left Searcy
Tuesday for an unknown destina
■ don, but his departure was kept
d secret and has just leaked out.
He is thought to have requisition
papers for Lightle.
If the insurance companies are
willing to dismiss the prosecution
since the moneys have been re
turned future developments in
the case depend largely upon the
action of Mrs. Pitts, whose hus
band’s grave was robbed to fur
nish Lightle a dummy. The
widow Pitts is poor and can take
no action herself, but she is de
sirous that the authorities push
the prosecution.
Mrs. Pitts still visits the emp
ty gr ve of her husband. “It’s
not the same as when I knew, or
thought I knew, he was there,”
she says, but she does not visit
the Lightle lot, although she
feels certain that her husband’s
body is there.
JOHN ROBERTS STATEMENT.
John V. Roberts, ex-mayor of
Searcy and the Democratic nom
inee for representative, while in
Little Rock, gave out the follow
ing statement on the case in an
interview with the Gazette:
“ I do not believe that Dr. j
Lightle is dead,” he said, “but
at the same time I do not believe
that he is a criminal. I do not
believe that he intended to de
fraud the insurance companies,
but that his disappearance was
the result of a sudden notion. I
am inclined to think that Dr.
Lightle had secured a body from
some source for the purpose of
dissection, and that he suddenly
made up his mind to leave home
and thought it would be a good
idea to set fire to his barn and
burn up the body to give the im
pression that he had been burned
in the fire. As to whose body it
was, I am, of course ignorant.
He might have, as is frequently
the case, paid a negro a couple of
dollars to secure him a body for
. dissection, and then when he
/ made up his mind to disappear,
/ the rest of the arrangements
could have been carried on by
himself, without assistance.
“I am confident that Mrs.
Lightle has no knowledge of the
fact that her husband was alive
until the receipt of the letter pur
porting to have been written by
him was received, a month ago.
Previous to that time all of the
insurance upon Dr. Lightle’s life
had been paid, with the excep
tion of the $2,000 in the A. 0. U.
W. She then made up her mind
not to collect the remaining in
surance, pending furthur devel
opments. What those further
developments have been I do not
know, as I had been in court for
over three weeks previous to last
week, when I came to Little
Rock and went to St. Louis,
where 1 remained until I came to
Little Rock today.”
LORCH SUES
HIS ASSAULTER.
Cashier Hemingway Defendant
in a Five Thousand Dol
lar Damage Suit.
Little Rock, Aug. 19.—Suit for
$5,000 damages against W. L.
Hemingway, assistant cashier of
the Exchange National bank, was
brought in the Pulaski court yes
terday afternoon by Louis Lorch,
formerly general agent of the
Washington Life Insurance Com
pany in Little Rock.
The suit grows out of a diffi
culty between the plaintiff and
the defendant on the 25th of Ju
ly, when it is alleged that Lorch
was assaulted by Hemingway.
An account of the trouble be
tween the two men was given in
the Gazette at the time. Lorch
alleges that on the day mention
ed he went into the Exchange
National bank to talk with Mr.
Rather, and that while in the
bank he was “wilfully, wanton
ly and maliciously,"assaulted by
the defendant, and that from the
effects he has “suffered great
physical pain and mental anguish
and humiliation."
Shackelford Bros, are attor
neys for the plaintiff in the suit.
WORKMEN CLEARING
RIGHT-OF-WAY.
Little Rock, Aug. 19.—Engi
neer G. W. Dalgam of the St.
Louis, Little Rock & Gulf rail
road came into the city yester
day with his party from Higgins,
after having finished the survey
for the proposed road from Sheri
dan to Higgins Tuesday. Six
miles of the right-of-way between
i i a_ _ r\ i . _
tucoc twu yuiuta, ivii. uai&aiu
says, has already been cleared.
The contract for the remaining
distance, he states, has been let,
work on which will be begun
within a week.
The surveying party now here
will be sent to Sheridan next
week and the line surveyed to
the gulf. The contract for
clearing the right-of-way and
grading the roadbed was let to
T. M. Dodson & Son of Hot
Springs, who are just completing
the grading of a road from Fel
senthal to Monroe, La., and will
send the teams and necessary
machinery from that point to
Higgins within the next few
days.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
We, the first nine of Newport,
accept the challenge of Capt.
Guy Smith’s nine provided they
will not play Andy Grogan, Guy
Smith’ and Melvin Robinson, on
account of being professionals,
but will substitute in their places
little Tommie Reamey, Georgie
Hillhouse and Fatty Cobb, and
must also use 0. S. Lawrence as
umpire.
BOLL WEEVIL
REACHES ARKANSAS.
Has Appeared in Hempstead and
Little River Counties Say
Good Cotton Authorities.
Little Rock, Aug. 19.—The
genuine boll weevil has at last
made its appearance in Arkan
sas. Insects have been found in
Hempstead and Little River
counties within the past few
days which expert cotton men
who have had experience with
the Texas weevil declare to be
the genuine boll weevil.
State Senator T. C. Jobe of
Hope, Hempstead county, was
in Little Rock las t night and
brought a boll weevil from a cot
ton plant on the farm of Allen
Ellis, five miles east of Hope, on
which are two of the insects
which are believed to be boll
weevils.
Senator Jobe stated that there
is apparently no question but that
they are the genuine weevils, as
a number of men who have seen
the Texas weevils are positive
that these are of the same va
riety.
The weevils have been found
so far only in the eastern and
northeastern portions of Hemp
stead county and near Ogden on
Red river in Little River county.
The residents of these counties
are excited over the appearance
of the insects, as both are large
cotton growing counties. The
injury to the cotton in those
counties this year will not be se
rious, but it is believed there is
danger of a further spread of the
weeyil next year.
Insects have been discovered
at various times in Arkansas,
which it was thought were the
dreaded boll weevils, but in each
case it has been found that the
fears were without foundation.
About a year ago it was reported
that the genuine boll weevil had
been discovered in Woodruff
county. An examination proved
that this was a mistake and at
various times the same reports
have been sent out, and they
have always proved erroneous.
In this case, however, it is be
lieved that there is no doubt of
the identity of the insects which
are at work on the cotton in
Hempstead and Little River
counties.
BACK IN THE HARNESS.
The Poplar Bluff Citizen-Demo
crat, S. Howard Leech’s news
paper idea of a hyphenated name
and double-column editorials, is
a thing of the past and the sheet
is now the property of George C.
Orchard, while Joe C. Berner
and Capt. H. C. McKinney are
back in the harness as business
manager and editor respectively.
The faded-out, split-in-the
middle name has been dropped
and the old name, Citizen, again
appears on the paper, and the
familiar ear-marks of McKinney
are to be discerned in every line
of the newsy paper.
Here’s hoping.
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address Passenger Traffic Depart
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