Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-16
THE CHTCOT ROBBERY.
Detective EIlsy7s Statement OF the
"HoFkinE Up" OF the Recent Al.
tempted BobbeFIes al Chieof,
Arkansas.
Names Of she "Bfrds' and their Aes
cOmPIIees-The saIoOn.Keeper and
hfs "Kfd," Etc.

| CHICOT, April Last night culmi.
mated one OF the robbeTies, q series OF
which had preceded 1t in Chicot, for
which l was detailed here to work up.
On the sixth day March / arrived at
this place, and by associating with sus-
pectsd patties, and yielding to their
knowledge of the people and respective
locations Of houses and situation OF
rooms, found no ditficultyin acq Jiring
Information to feTrst out the parties who
had committed each and every robbery,
t;om the stealing OF Alex Nichols's
trunk from the railroad depot, and other
! things, and the stealing Of Mrs. H. b.
/ Smiths trunk from her house and the
! purloining Of her jewelry therefrolh, to
the more recent robbery Of Dickin-
sons store, at Arkansas City, and that
/ OF &. & 2. Beers safe at this place, and
q plot to kill and rob w. E. Trice, the
| present mayor and grocery merchant.
One attempt had already been made to
rob TTice, but in the language OF the
wOuld-be murderers, he heard them,
! called out, and frightened them off. A
night had again been agreed upon to
carry out this fiendish design, when bis
family should be absent, and no one left
at home but himself, and when he would
fall an easy victim. On the night of the
twentieth Of March, second raid upon
Z. d Z. Beer was arranged, under the
leadership OF Alfred Johnson, but
some unforeseen event Dipped it in
the bud, and it eliminated in
change OF plan, which was to be sc.
eOmplished by numbering the night
watchmen, Pat Rice, and robbing the
safe at the railroad depot, in which a
considerable sum ofmoney was supposed
to be deposited. The night was Opp0r-
tune, rain and wind equally heavy, but
IS Colonel A. II. Ryan was foreWarned
he had an extra guard on duty in the de-
pot. About eleven o'clock, amid the
storm and rain, the night-hawks en-
tered and worked for some time at the
combination lock, and finding they
could not master it were in the act OF
breaking the lock, when they were COM
manded to halt. They broke for the
windows. The guard fired upon them
as they went through into the over
flow. One, known as Big Walter,
ls missing, supposed to be drowned.
Tom Walker was shot in the arm and
captured, and in attempting to escape |
was, it is supposed, mOrtally wounded.
Ike Bynum escaped injury, but was
captured and is still under arrest. He is |
the tiend who suggested the murder of |
the watchman, Pat Rice, and was to |
have executed it. He is in charge of |
Willie PrOsise, the young but efficient |
marshal recently elected. Bakers gar
rOting of seventeen hundred dollars is
still wrapped in mystery. There is a
in this town to whom |
handed letter dictated by myself, and
addressed to myself, purpOrting to be
from some Of my associates, enclosing
ten dollars as a part OF the booty
OF recent haul made by them to assist
me in getting to Texas, where they
were to meet me. [ got him to open
and read it to me under the preteXt that
| had no glasses with me and could not
read without them, After reading it he
slapped me on the back and called me
q brick or q trump. He also confessed to
me he had quit the army, and, with two
or three others, did a good deal of steal
ing; end since here he has boy named
Jimmy whom he has educated as q
and says to me that Jimmy
suits him in his business-that he has
trained him, and could not get along
without him. That boy L have seen
collect, or take, from drunken men
twice the amount of their Indebtedness
to him. He, young as he is, has also
to me that men should be
knocked down and robbed; also, to drug
men and Ego through tnem." Bakers
'Obbery occurred near this saloon. Big
Walter and Tom Walker have been
Ound out, and are well recommended
IS robbers; also, Ike Bynum, William
lowell and Monroe and Alfred johnson,
Vi negroes, and habitues of this saloon,
With whom the proprietor plays cards
lightly, or whenever they have made !
laul, but he is very anxious to, and
lOes, conceal it from the citizens, as il
would iDjure his business if it was
inown what he was doing. He is the
ecipient of the spoils of these robberies,
md band o. thieves iniest mis- place,
nd would warn the citizens to keep a
.OOd watch upon his premises.
L. b. ALLEY.