The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-30
war Times ia The Recent
Bloody RIos 3at Perrysille- Court
rsro,xen IN, right OF the sheriff &C.

Bloody IIos 3at Perryyille- Cour :,
|. Broken Upv FiIshtof the sheriff. fc.
Correspondence Of The Little Rock Gazette.
LEwisBuac, Ark, August 20.-Inforfna-
ton was received ut this place late Monday
evening that little war bad broken ont ~
Perryviie on that day-MatneWs. sno.'
others wounded, and a thousand o!net con,
,fjicting reports. Sheriff HampriShs ahu
| Treasurer Jones stated that on Monaay ~
noon. after the court had adjourned, McCaaoe
attacked jacob Smyers about an aItieie NC
| had written in the Gazette rev Gays aeo;
Smyers stated Mathews wrote 1t, ana ne pau
allowed him the use of his signature. MA.
thews was then assaulted by McCaDe Ia tne
courthouse ball with q large CLUB. MatieMs
| was disarmed at this time, ana mace ~, uis
escape from the courthouse anG lan " h =.
store, holly pursued by McCaoe, stllhtss q.
| him with his club, and it Struck tne uo s9
facing. McCabe entered the aoor, anu =. nc
lthews shot at him; With piston, missing LII
| but the powder burnt his race. froln In 70
| they assert general firing LOOK ptace, ~
| the bushes. Hambright says he endeaVored
to command the peace, but he was cursed oy
10th sides and told to 90 away and moi IN
! terfere. which he was compelled TO 40. we
called ,,pon Mrs. Mathews for the purpose
If hearing something of her husband, VINO
had been wounded the day before. we
found her looking pale and gbost-llke tne
| verysnicture of misery and despair. Mis;
| Mathews could give us no information ala
not know nor had not learned what naa
beconc of Mfr, Mathews. In fact she seeipeu
verv little inclined to talk. Mr.. Free, q
brother to Mrs. Mathews, and DIT. Ciarh,
| who were present, said they bad hunted tue
woods ont for him, but could lind no traces
of him: that they were afraid to search any
longer for him for fear they would be killed.
rhev stated further, that on Monday eve
| ming a short time after the fighting, HAM
hr;Sht and a squad of men came 10 the
huIse and searched it through for Mathews
Stating they had writ for him. ,a
ahout this time Supervisor HOMES anu
ono other person rode up to the gale, as
mounted. and cine into the mouse. altei
exchanging o. few words with Mrs. Matne"s
AZ Holmes had short interview with Us.
he s,id ITO Use his own language Us Drleny aS
we can) that " gang of desperadoeS, neaqeu
nv Names, McCabe, and Others, had broken
nm the court the day before by their tnreats'
intjmidations, and violence. The same par
,ie, had prevented the court from proceeu-
mo with business at two terms heretofore:
r6,t q violent and premeditatcd attempt hau
hcen made to take Mathews's lie Monuiy'
nngared in by George w. Names Qate clcrk)'
IeSsp K. Names. |. G. PigS. Marion Mc,
",I,a md others. That Mathews had
worn ont warrants against all the partieS'
which were placed in the hands oi lhe COLI
stable That he had summoned some one
hundred and fifty men. with their arms, 10
.ssst in making the arrests, and for tue pur
pose of protecting the supervisors court.
lie further stated that writ was lssuea ioi
Hambright: that he was just as bad as any
of them. and that the people had turned OUT
to arrest them all, and assist IN the eAecu-
tion of the law; that if they made no resist
snce none of them would he burt, but II
thev did resist they intended to have them
nj any hazard. About this time body OF
.houI FORTY or fifty armed men came march
inr down the road in regular order OF IN
fIntrv. They halted for moment at the
cate. At this point we were little over
6uarter Of mile from the courthouse,
west The squad here divided, a portion
taxing the brush and filing through the
woods. so as to enter the square on the
south corner. the remainder OF the squad
moving slowly and cautiously down the
main road. supervisor Holmes and ourselves
following. About the time we reached
Hambright's house firing commenced from
the direction in which the squad had gone
TINT lett the main road few minutes before.
What Immediately occurred at the court
house SQUARE we do not know. as we were
too far oil TO see we'll. The squad ahead of
lis rot there without firing. A scene here
followed which we shall not soon forget.
For little while the odd war times" were
fully revived and terrified wo-
men. crying and frightened children, flying
in every direction, panic-strlcken. In Il few
the squad returned from the firing,
but they would not lmpart any inior1na.
ton. The dalkies and all their friends
but the two Weddels lad disappeared,
evidently upon the first approach OF
the constable's troops, but not knowing the
exact condition of affairs, and feeling that il
would be prudent to remove our stock from
the centre of the square, we started IN the
direction of Old Town with Mr.. Holmes and
ran into another squad OF armed men, about
fifty in number, VINO, rising out of their am
bllscade, suddenly brought us to halt"
In fact. wherever we turned round men
were found ready for action; a complete
pjrket aud skirtnsh line surrounded the
court house square. Not feeling satisfied
with the answers to our inquiries Us to the
cluse of the firing, we repaired in that direc-
ton. We had not gone far beyond the
SQUARE into the woods before we discovered
more misery was In store for some one. We
found the body Of l. G. Pigg lying upon his
face. and his wife and six children weeping
and moaning over his remains. He was
living precisely in the direction taken by the
squad that left the main road at Mathews's
house, He had evidently been run
ming when shot. He had fallen very heay-
ily on his face. aStriGe gOod-siZed sapling,
and bis face driven into the ground. The
tack of bis head was filed with buckshot.
His rifle (Which was aftcrward identified as
'Suuie Weddel's) was found close by him,
leaning against tree, loaded. Presently
some four men came up with blanket and
laid hold of the body. We asked them
what they intended to do. They stated the
Justice had ordered them to carry the body
into the State-house. We suggested they
bad better have the body viewed where it
was found. We made no further search.
There was 80 much distress exhibited by bis
family, and the moaning of the women and
children in the wood, we left the sickening
scene and returned TO tue courthouse. We
learned attcr1ard that an inquest was held
and a verdict returned that the deceased
came to his death by gunshot wound from
the hands of some person or persons I'M
known.
All ofthe constable's guards were quiet and
orderly after they obtained possession of the
courthouse. Sheriff Hambright and Trea-
surer Jones both left very suddenly on the
approach of the troops and after firing. They
were at the sheriff 5 house when the troops
entered. Supervisor Harper, the one who
remained in town with Hambright, also dis
appeared. The two remaining supervisors.
Holmes, Democrat, and Price, a hepuoli,