Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1893-10-18
|COWARDLY MURDER, ,.mss McEHEE AssAsslNATED BY A MAN NAMED SCOTT.
 cpuEE DISAPPEARED MONDAY AND HIS BODY WAS FOUND BY THE ROADSIDE TO-DAY
DARK DEED IN WHICH REVENGE WAS THE MOTIVE.
SEARCHING FOR THE MURDERER

fine purpose Oi DttiSiiiS Soihe cotlol to market.
 On Monday morning he started Two of his colored men, Sol Bowdry and Nose Terry. to work loading cotton. While these tenants were at ucLntyres gin a man named Scott to make inquiries about Nr McGehee, wanting to know if ba was going to Pine Bluff that morn ing. to which they replied in the af- |frmative.
 Mr. McCfeehee and Scott were both |sppp riding on horseback. coming in |the direction of Pine Bluff. A short Lime afterward this man Scott |passed bv tho tenants, Bowdry and Terry
 1S A PAST tsALL0P ."d 1iHading toward this city. 8rhe tenants suspected nothing, oLs Brought their cotton to the city and stwaited Mr. MeGehee's arrival This occurred Monday morning. ahnd up to this hour no trace of Mr #SlcGehee has been learned. 8 Yesterday morning his horse re- Burned to the plantation on the aayou riderless, without bridle or saddle
 I Upon the reception Of this news HIobert, the oldest son, left in search II his father.
 # In an interview with Mrs. McGeliee a he stated that when Mir. McGehee eft home last Friday morning be
 ad only S10 in money with hfiA, agith which he intended to pay some HHllls held against him by his tenants. <he also said that this man Scott, E R'ho was last seen with Mr. McGehee, Had some months ago proposed to zAlr- MeGehee that for S400 he would Hlre his son of fits, with which the Moy had been afflicted. Finally Mr. ElcGehee consented to the treatment, And Scott has been administering Hhyies to the boy for some time, until W st week, when Mr. McGehee took
 t boy from under the treatment Of Mot | claiming that he was doing Wmn Q good, and paid him, as he Mough t, fully, for his services. This @ttle&tnt did otproye satisfactory H Settt. and he brought suit in Equife Noore's court for the balance
 s9eo-$100 having been paid. The
 lgmenl went against Scott E HEREBY aAytis THE TALE.
 Eeott was not satisfied; he made Eecial inquiry at the gin for Mir.
 eehee Was Iasf seen with him;
 S also seen riding fa agreat hurry
 ward the city.
 seott came into this country some @'hlas ago, and was boss at astave Enp near Mr. McGehee $ planta ton.
 made his acquaintance. and
 .nled that he had spent thousands Hohars ln trying to cure his wife,
 'o was afflicted the same as Mr. E 'eaee $ son, and so appealed to
 oiu gentleman's credulity until
 pefsuaded him to have his son Hated. All of the above facts bave used great deal of suspicion. U 'oui play Is thought to be the re
 u. McGehee is-one of Pine Bluffs
 soeetiefs, and is considered ~ ps man. 1t is hoped that his 7 7aooats may be discovered.
 ai parties are now securing
 soultfS between this city and his fa s'n county placein search of him.
 AeGEHEE FOUND MURDERED.
 ~ Ne Writing the above. news has
 leo 1hls city that MT. McGehee nd na sn murdered, and his body Ip =. .ne roadside. nine miles
 ans city, near the Ran Matley .0 the deadly weapon used bv 1 sass'hs ,. hand being a pistol, \ ;,a mn'en two mortal wounds sp nm, nlnleted. His body will be- I'd ast s4's 'o the city this afternoon. un sba sh1 the man Scott mention rn,eeh entered the bar of the Ho- i tola 1,A ' Detween11 and l2 o'clock
 h too, s'e proprietor, MT. Mullens. 0' not es. MT. Mullens told him he
 tt ean1' a1e 10 hear his troubles. but
 uadad luea a1 talking, and finally
 ar Haa, aiuilens to loan him a
 stabla' ae then went over to Der e's1s dlQ fI.ipl t. l..