The age-herald., 1899-03-17
Terrible Duel on the Streets of
 Hot Springs SHERIFF AND TIE POLICE Took Opposite Sides and Ba Blood Was Engendered. $ z CHIEF OF POLICE WAS Ss.-eD
 $ And Son of the Sheriff Also Met His PORTION OF TWO FACTIONS MET And Fifteen or Twenty Shots Rang Out As the Two Parties Clashed in 
And Son of the Sheriff Also Met His
 Fate.
PORTION OF TWO FACTIONS MET
And Fifteen or Twenty Shots Rang Out As the Two Parties Clashed in Mortal Combat More
 Trouble Expected.

Hot Springs Ark, March 1e.-Five men are dead as a result of terrible street duel which occurred at 5:30 O clock this af- ternoon between some of the most promi- nent men identified with local politics. The affair is the outgrowth of the campaign for city offices, which has been growing hotter and hotter each day for several weeks. The dead are:
 Thomas c. Toler, chief of police.
 Thomas Goslee. sergeant of police. ,s James E. Hart, city detective.
 Louis Hinkle, delivery driver.
 John o. Williams, son of the sheriff of Garland county.
 The wounded are:
 Edward Spears, deputy sheriff, shot through the neck, probably fatally.
 As a sequel to the street duel between Goslee on one side, and Sherin R. l.. Will Hams and his son, John o. Williams, on the other, bloody riot occurred at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon. Five men lay dead upon the sidewalk when the smoke cleared away. It was the most horrible affair in the history of Hot Springs.
 Terrible In It's Results
 The memorable Flynn-Doran riot of 1884 eiio iOt SoihPaiO to ~ III ilo tSiiipiS ISSulio. It was bloody termination to the first af- fray earlier in the evening in winch Goslee and the Williams participated A portion of the police faction, headed by the chief of police, and portion of the Williams fac- ton met on the s dewalk In front of Lemps beer depot, and the furious firing began. It is utterly impossible at this time to get all the facts or learn definitely who did the shooting. The police were gong aown the street and the other party were coming up. Who began the affray cannot now be learn- ed, as nearly all tne prlncipals are dead.
 Fifteen or twenty shots rang out in quick succession as the two parties clashed in mortar combat. The streets were crowded with citizens and visitors and the widest excitment prevailed. Chief of Police roler and his sergeant, Thomas Goslee, of the police faction, lay dead upon the sidewalk, and on the other side Jonn 1. Williams, son of the sheriff, lay mortally wounded, and Ed Spear was shot and cut in the neck. Lotus Hinkie, the driver of Schwau- nitz beer wagon, was kiled by a stray bullet. Hinkle was not a party to the feud.
 The Sherin Not Present
 Sheriff Williams was not present when the battle occurred, but soon appeared, and on learning of the death of his son
 
 Hams, and nephews, Sam and Will Watt, were with him and all were armed and crazed with rage and grief. About twenty minutes alter the main battle, another af- fray occurred, in which tour or five shoi5 were fred This occurred on the sidewalk, a little below where the other dead bodies lay. The great multitude which had gath cred stampeded In the widest excltment, tumbling over each other in every direc- tion. In this fusillade Detective James Hart went down with the whole top Of his skull blown off.
 Pandemonium reigned for an hour, and crowds of citizens and visitors rushed up and down the streets. When stir oc- cured stampedes would take place at once Finally Constable Samuel Tate and Deputy John Archer succeeded In quelling the ex- citement to some extent and cleared the street in the vicinity of the awful scene. A big freight wagon was ordered up and the bodies were loaded into It and taken to the Gross undertaking establishment. Besides his father John Williams leaves a mother and three sisters. Goslee leaves a widow and children, the youngest an in- fant. Toler has no relatives here. Hart leaves a widow and children, and young Hinkle, the innocent victim, has relatives here.
 The Citizens Aroused
 Citizens of all kinds are terribly aroused over the affair, and are determined to maintain the peace It is said that the governor will be asked to remove Sherin Williams, temporarily at least, and ap- point some other man to act in that ca- pacty.
 Judge Bedding was sworn In as chief of police tonight and after citizens mass meeting appointed 150 special officers, who are patroling all parts of the city. All saloons and open houses have been closed for the night, many of them having quit business immediately after the tragedy. The Williamses have many relatives here and more trouble is anticipated from this source, while the brother of Hinkle claims that some one took advantage of the op- portunity to kill his brother.
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