The Russellville Democrat., 1879-10-16
TIE MURDERER OF BURGESS JAMES MAkESA CLEAN BREAST OF 1T ALL,
AND DIvULGES THE wHCLE DETAILS OF ONE OF THE
 BLACKEST CRIMES.
In the Whole Catalogue of Cold Flooded Murders.---JIm H0I- land and Win. Casey Ini- plicatcd.---Thc Three
 Murderers in
 Chains.

| AuC iOloWiHB to luc CouteSSiOu O
 Chas. Helphrey, one of the murder
 CTS of Burgess James, as taken frun
 the Dardanelle Immigrant. It is q straightforward, plainly told story
 and corresponds with marvelou, degree of exactness with the dyins statement of the murdered man Il d:scloses one of the most deliberate
 ly plotted, cold blobded and coward
 ly murders ever recorded in all the annals of crime; and it fixes the guilt beyond all doubt or possibility of re
 futatiun upon the proper persons The murderers are now in shackles at Dardanelle, but it IS long time Euntii the next term of Circuit Cour, in Yell county. when the grand jury
 can find indictments. Helphfey
 Holland and Casey all have desper. ate friends, and some of them are not without means and inauetce; and no effort will be left untried to pro cure the release or escape of the men. A strong guard will be neces, sary to keep them, and a heavy expense will be entailed upon the county; 'Changes of venue," Con tinuations," and ottier "delays of the law" will be taken advantage of to gain time, to wear out the vigilatce of guards, and to give the guilty wretches opportunity to escape. It is this uncertainty of punishment, and delay IT administering 1t, com bined with morbid and sickly sen- timental sympathy for a shackled villain ,who has done some great crime. that is making desperate, bad meu, bolder and bolder every day. We deprscate mob law. We do not believe in the populace taking the law into their own hands. We can not afford to sec the courts of justice supplanted by Judge Lynch-but, when we see the case 50 plainly made out as it is in this instance, it looks like great hardship upon the county 10 have to hold confessed murderers ESQ long at heavy ex- pense, 10 say nothing of the hazard of their escape and future depreda- tons.
 In view of these facts cannot an extra term, or special session, of the Circuit Court and grand jury he held in Yell county at once to dis pose of this case? If such a thing can be done under our law, it should be done at once. There should be no delay, no dilly -dallving, no legal technlcalities thrown in the way of the swift and stern execution of the merited punishment npon the perpe- trators of this awful crime. If there is, the people will have cause to lose confidence in the protection which the law is supposed to throw around their lives, and they will be forced to resort to the God givenAnherent right which all men have to protect their own lives by such means as they can command.
 Here is Helphrey's confession.
 am the man that killed Burgess James. I killed him for his money. on Saturday night before killed him 1 had conversation with James Hol land and William Kaiser at Hollands gin, in Cardon's Bottom. They ad- vised me to do it, and said that they had been working it up for six months themselves and would have done it, but they were suspected. We drank considerable whiskey dur Ing the time. They told me that James generally carried about sl, 300 about his person, and also what name I should assume, and where l could find him. We had an other talk next morning and Kaiser gave me pistol and Holland little mon- ey, and both parties said they would die by me and swear me out and do anything to save me if got into trouble and so 1 started on Sunday morning to do the deed. l found Burgess in the uplands, as he has stated, about sundown, claimed to be his cousin, and came back into the river bottom with him. We travelled and talked along about different sub jects till near midnight intend cd to kill James all the time, but ha- ted,to do it. l couldn't get my cour- age up to the point. l was under the influence of whiskey most of the time. I showed Burgess the pistol and asked him to buy it. He took it and examined it, but didn't want 1t. When We sat down to rest thellast time conciud .e then was the time to kill him, and pulled out the pistol and said it had killed one man and that was going to kill him with it. I said this because I hated to kIll him without letting him know it.