Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-07-05
ALI. ABOUT ITl
How Geo. Larkin Murder
ed His Cousin.
BOTH REPUBLICANS
Poor Arihur'o It,i0 children no. allowed 10
touch their dying father, but covered
by the deadly pistol we're COM
peIIod to sec him die like n
wolf.
From the Aorristown oazatlo.

Arthur Larkins was not engaged in
the Illicit Manufacture oi liquor, neither
was he engaged In the Illicit sale of liz
u0r so far as United States Government
IL concerned, because he had been selling
under license regularly issued and paid
for Tho facts In that case are about
these, as we have been informed. Tho
brother Of Arthur Lallin, whose namc
i3 George, was engaged for oomo time Ia
the sale Of whisEey. lie George oln-
pioyCd Arthur as saleemm. The bust
ness, after n time, had been transferred
to Arthur's house, and he carried on the
traffic from TINT place, without keeping
a regular Grocery" At the spring
term of the Circuit court OF Hawkins
county, Arthur wns indicted for selling
liquor within four miles Of II chartered
school. lie compromised the suit by
agreeing 10 pay the costs md to quit the
sale. Tho warrant for the arrest of Ar
thur L0rliins for violating the United
States law was Issued from Morristown,
whore tho facts I'M the case (that he was
selling under Georges licCnsc) were not
known, but the truth is Arthur Larkins
was not only not o "moonshner," but
he had not violated the United States
revenue law In any way. ltisnot known
here who procured the warrant to bo IS
sued, but IL Ia believed by the cool-hcnd-
cd unpreiudiced citizens Of Hawkins Go.
that the whole thing from beginning to
end was malicious,
Certain papers and certain parties, it
seems huye attempted to give this matter
q political turn. But this will not do.
George LarbinE was n Republican, Ar
thur Larkhls was also q Republican,. .--
Thoy had had law suit, and very BIT
ter one it was. George had lost that suit
in the Supreme court, and IL was known
all over that noghborhood that the very
worst sort OF feeling existed between
these two men. The law suit and the
hostility existing between these two
cousins was, In the opinion of all of those
who know the faets, tho cause Of the
killing aud nothing else,
The hue and cry raised against Sheriff
Bleyins for putting handouts on Geo. n.
Larkins, when he arrested him, aud the
charge that Bob hand-cullcd him because
he had grudgo against him, will not do.
IL Is falso. A warrant for the arrest OF
Geo. u. LOrklns had been placed In Mr.
Blcvin's hands. He had been informed
that George had committed a cold, cruel
murder for malice and for revenge, and
when he caught up with the fleeing gmur-
derer he simply treated United States
Deputy Marshall George T.. Lnrkin pre-
clscly rs he would have treated any 9TH
or man under like circumstances. If 10
had been Gen. Hancock or the President
of tho United States who had come here
and shot down one Of our citizens like q
dog, and was attempting to escape, Bob
would have put the bracelets on either
one Of them Just as lac did on George
When sheriff Bloyins arrested King
for The murder of Martha West ho put
hand-culls on him. Nobody objected to
that, When he arrested Joe Harris for
the murder Of Brown and Heck at Mar
bic Hall, no tied the fellows hands be-
hind him, with u rope, Tint was MI
right. The Sheriff only did II 10 render
escape impossible. Before King and
Harris were convicted they were every
whit aB rood I'm the eyes of the law az
Geo. Lail,ius. Arc The U. s. u. Mar
3hnls rnCrcdY Arc they 20 DC permitted
TO ride over the country, booted and
1purrod and armed, and permitted TO
4hoot down men IN the presence of their
little children, IN their corn fields, en-
gagcd IN making bread for their families
--and not to bo molcstcd by the shcriIs
of 'ronncsooY Have we come 20 thntY
win Jhc Federal court at Knoxville take
this IMAM out of the hands Of the law and
turn him lose without mn investigation
We shall see.