Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-10
More BlOOdshed in Pope COunty-Dep-
uty-Sheriff Williams Refuses to
be Arrested and Is MOrtaIIy
Wounded.
DOdsOn's Militia with Plane and Sword
The RussellTiIle Tribune Anti
Clayton Burned to the
Ground.
The Report Of Sheriff DodsOn to Cover.
nor HRdley-An Infamous Libel.
Answer Of Hsdley, who Yields to tn
Pressure and Orders Out the
Militia.
DOdsOn interviewed by a COmmereia
TraFeler-Fhe Result Anything
but Satisfactory.
rBY TELEGRAPHl

/ LITTLE Rock, September s-Parties from
/ Pope county report that on Saturday a civil
posse, who had a writ for that purpose, at
tempted to arrest Depufy-Sheriff Williams or
a charge Of firing at and attempting to Kill
Harry POynter, at Dover, at the time the latter
shot and killed County Clerk Hickox. vii.
I liams refused 70 be arrested, and was shot and
mortally wounded. On Sunday night about
I twelve O'Clock a squad OF Sheriff DOdson /.
militia entered Russenville and set fire to the
Tribune ONCE ian anti-administration paper
which was burned TO the ground. General
Uphan was in Russellvflle at the time; the
latter, it is stated, went TO Dover to-day. The
Governor received a dispatch from him this
evening, the contents Of which have not vet
been made known.
TBY NALL
On Sunday morning last we published the
General Order OF Governor Hadley calling ont
the militia in Pope county, Arkansas. Here
IS the Information on which that order was
based:
LITTLE Rock, September /, IS72.
To Gov. Q. A. HadIey, Little Rock, Ark:
DEAR sIR-On the first OF September. Is72. in
company with ". Fl. HickOx, the County
Clerk, and my Deputy, John H. Williams,
started out Of the town OF Dover, Pope county.
At distance OF about one hundred yards
IRON lhe Court square we passed twenty or
thirty men, armed with reyOlverS. At a point
further on we were fired upon from a house
occupied BY one Mecham as a wOodshop, and
Captain W. H. HickOx was shot through the
head and killed. From the point where
Hiclzox was killed, for distance OF quarter
Of a mile, Deputy sheriff Williams and myself
were fired upon by persons secreted in houses,
fence-cOrnerS, and alleys near the street we
had 70 travel, and by persons in the rear, Of
which mention has already been made.
Al your solicitation, and upon the promises
made to yourself and General Bishop, that the
officers OF the county should be protected from
assfssi alton, We visited the town Of Dover, in
our official capacities, and in the discharge Of
Inelr respective dutles. / then believed the
promises made yourself and General Bishop
would not be kept; but that the object Of the
the sole purpose OF disarming my suspicious,
and those OF Captain HiCkOX and Williams,
10 such an extent would place US in the
hands OF men who would asSaSsinate Us. In
this was right, and you and General Bishop
were mistaken.
Much excitement prevails throughout the
country, and nearly all the male citizens
thereof are in arms, and, I am informed, l
wholly refuse 10 recognize the forms Of law or
its Officers have inimy possession warrants
Tor mum Der OF persons who are charged with
the murder OF Captain W. H. Hickox, and 1
am finally convinced that these warrants can
not be served with an ordinary Sheriff 5 posse;
that IL is dangerous and impossible to at
tempt the same in view Of the state OF excite
ment now existing, and the attempt that was
made to take the life OF myself and deputy.
am compelled, therefore, 10 make this rep
resent alton Of facts to you, and ask that the
officers in charge OF the state guards and re-
serve militia, be instructed to render me such
aid as may be necessary TO execute the law,
Z. W. DODSON,
Sheriff Of Pope county.