Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-05-06
AN EX-CONv|CT SHOT,
RESISTED ARREST FOR BURG
Larry AND ATTEMPTED
TO SHOOT THE
OFFICER
In Return for Which He Was Laid
Low By Policeman Culpep-
per Early this
Morning.

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burglar who had burglarized the
store of L. d. Hamilton, at Redfeld,
at late hour Saturday night, secnr-
ing about $35 in money and several
pistols. A letter also came in on the
noon train from Dexter stating that
the person believed to have commit
ted the burglary had been seen to
| pass that place on foot. and that for
the Pine Bluff authorities to look
out for him. Constable John Case,
of Jefferson township, armed with
warrant of arrest, came to town
yesterday and together with Police
man Culpepper they secured the
western part OF the town and surb-
urbs yesterday afternoon and last
night in search of the criminal
without success, and at late hour
the search was abandoned.
Policeman Culpepper is on the
night force and as he was returning
home this morning about O'Clock
ON Third avenue, near the Synagogue,
he met the person answering to the
description OF the Redfleld burglar.
The Policeman walked up to him
and told him to consider himself
under arrest when the latter jerked
out pistol and snapped it in the
face of the officer. The policeman
then pulled his gun and fred twice
into the ground, hoping thereby TO
intimidate his man, when the latter
threw his old weapon away and
ierked out another one, which the
officer knocked out OF his hand and
on to the ground. The man then
pulled another weapon, at which the |
policeman leveled pistol at his head. |
The fellow then turned to run and |
as he turned he received q ball from |
the poiiceman's pistol, the ball enter |
ing just below the shoulder blade, |
ranging upward and passing through |
the apex OF the left lung, lodging in
hIsshOulder. The man run down the
side street to the side gate of NJ. w.
otof7 GA . iNbldC0CG WtttIG liz ltlls
his pistol falling by his side.
His three pistols were then picked |
up, the first OF which was found to
be unloaded and the other two with
full loads
The man was then taken to the
county jail, where his wound was
examined and dressed by Drs.
Taylor and Noel. His wound is ex-
ceedingly painful but pronounced not
necessarily dangerous.
An examination of the contents of
the wounded mans pockets dis
closed his name as Z. L. Guin and |
that he is an ex-convict In his
pocket was a pardon signed on |
April Both by the Governor He had
been convicted at the July term of |
the Desha County Circuit Court and |
sent to the State penitentiary for one |
year for grand larceny His term
would haveexpired next July and he
was pardoned a few months before |
the expiration thereof. At the time |
of the burglary and his arrest, GUN |
was working his way back to Desha
County.
A GRAPHIC reporter visited the |
county jail and saw Guin this morn
ing. He was suffering intense pain |
from his wound and could not talk. |
We learn from Jailor Gibson, how
ever, that the ex-convict stated this |
morning that he snapped his pistol |
at the officer as a bluff and did not |
intend to shoot him. An officer,
however, is not presumed when in
the presence of a revolver to know |
whether the weapon is being used
as bluff or in dead earnest, and
the emergencies of the occasion will
not admit of an explanation.
Officer Culpepper was arrested by
Chief OF Police Stewart his morn
ing and placed under $500 bond
His case will be examined at once by
the grand jury, which is now in
8 ession.
Mr.. l.. ID. Hamilton came down
from Redfie!d and identified the
pistols found on the person OF the
ex-convict as belonging to his store
and stock at Redfield which was
bnrglarized Saturday night.
Gnin is y ynnng white man about
25 years of age, and if he RECEIVERS |
from his wound, which is likely, he
stands a good chance of spending
several more years in the peniten-
tiary of the State.
LArER-Guin died about 1870
O'Clock this afternoon.