Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-05-15
MURDERER OF 4NE MEYER
BEHIND PRISON BARS.
Captured at Mcaehee by officer
Craig, of This City Prisoner
Has Become Clam Like.

! y n
Iby Emma Allen, which took place
last Friday night, will bsavenged by
the law.
The man believed to be the
murderer is now behind the bars in
the Jefferson county Jail He was
captured yesterday at NcGehee, by
Assistant Chief OF Police Craig, oil
this city.
Officer Gsaig obtained informa ton
that n man answering the descrip-
ton of the supposed murderer had
passed down the Valley road afoot,
SO he boarded a train and passed
down the ROAD to intercept the
murderer. Mr.. Craig arrived at Me
Gehee just In the nick of time, for
the man, who proved to be Fred
Cloud, was at thatplace. and was in
the act of boarding n South-bound
passenger train.
The officer had no difficulty in
recogniz .ng the man from the de-
scription which he had obtained
from those who saw him on the
night of the killing. The supposed
murderer wore the same suit of
clothes, the same patent leather
shoes, and, in place OF the neat
derby hat which he lost at the time
OF his flight on leaving the house OF
ill-fame on the night of the murder,
he Wore an old and dilapidated
SLOUGH hat, which was utterly out of
keeping with his otherwise neat APP
pearance, and the hat was in itself n
give-away.
When arrested the prisoner made
no attempt Mt resistance and gave
his name as Fred Cloud. He was
brought to this city ON the AS pas
senger train yesterday afternoon,
and when lie arrived here several
hundred people had assembled at
the depot to catch sight of the man
who had choked the woman to
death in such a eold-blooded manner.
lie was at once identified by those
who saw him ut Emma Aliens on
the night Of the killing.
At an early hour this morning a
GRAPHIC reporter called at the jail
and interviewed the prisoner, but
found that he had become clam-like
and would not talk.
He admitted that his name was
Fred Cloud; said that by trade he
was an engineer, either for loeomot-
ives or stationary engines. He said
that he came here Friday from Little
Bay, and spent The day and night
playing cards for drinks, and said
that he imbibed very freely of intox-
icants.
When asked if he visited the resort
kept by Emma Allen ON the night of
the murder he said that he visited
enc house, at which, on preparing
to leave, he had had n fight.
When asked how he hurt his hand
which was badly cut and swollen,
he said that he did not know, that
he must have been very drunk or
crazy not to have remembered when
he received the wounds.
He denied knowing Irene Meyer,
and said that he had never been in
Pine Bluff before last Friday. States
that he had no home and no living
relatives; but declined to say where
he was raised or where he lived be-
fore going to Little Bay.
TO the officer who arrested him,
Cloud spoke more freely than he
would to Interpreter. He admitted
that he was at Emma Aliens house
on the night of tho murder; that on
entering the house he called for Irene
Meyer, but did so merely because on
entering the door he heard some one
else asking for her. Said that he
remembered playing cards and drink
ing beer with her, but did not re-
member going to n room upstairs
with her. A moment later he said
that he remembered coming down
stairs and striking Emma Alien:
that he recalled the fight in the hall
at which time he was endeavoring
to get out of the house.
The old hat worn in the place Of
the one lost, he said had been given
him by negro at gin about ten
miles below Pine Bluff
On his shirt front were spots of
blood which he had evidently attem-
pied to wash out His hand wac
evidently cut by the euspidor with
which Emma Allen struck him.
He is undoubtedly the same Fred
Cloud whom Irene Meyer, a day be-
fore her death informed u companion.
that setlueed her, and by whom she
had a child which is now living
with its grand parents in Fort Worth
Texas, and who carried her from
Fort Worth to Alexandria, La,
where they lived for time. when
after quarrel She lett him and came
to Pine Bluff.
When the GRAPHIC reporter was
informed of the above facts by the
companion of Irene Meyer, the morn
ing after the killing. the name of
Fred Cloud had not been connected
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