Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-08-26
MURDERER PLACED THERE WEDNESDAY FOR SAFE
 KEEPING.
WANTS TO HANG SOON.
Beginning of the End of a Complicated and Peculiar
 Case.

Hon. John E. Witherington, ex- representative from Calhoun county, and Sheriff W. H. Furlough, of that county, arrived in the city fast night and placed in the penitentiary Wiley Bum, the negro who was convicted at Hampton Monday of murder in the first degree, for the killing of AL len Martin in 1895. Judge Smith suspended sentence until John Dick inson. whc Bum says hired him to do the killing, can be captured and tried. Dickinson is at present in the territory and officers have gone af- ter him.
 In reply to questions by a Gazette reporter last night, Bum said:
 "Yes, killed Martin and I will be glad when they hang me. 1 only wish to live long enough to see John Dickinson, who got me into this. caught and convicted. Then I am ready for them to put the rope around my neck Then Martin will not bother me any more. Only last night, 1t being Tuesday, he apperr ed to in the jail at Hampton. He visits me every Tuesday night. 1t was on Tuesdap night that I killed him. Yes. they will hang me pretty soon. Can't you come down?"
 The Bum case is one of the most peculiar and complicated leases ever known in the criminal annals Of Arkansas. Much has been printed about it in the past month. During a conversation with Mir. Whitening ton last night at Gleason's Hotel. the facts here given were learned. He was one of the four men who killed the negro thought to be Bum in 1895. He had an interview with ahe governor last night concerning the reward paid in 1895.
 For tue murder of Allen Martin three men have already.been lyuched a fouth stands convicted of murder in the first degree. with the moose around his neck and fifth will soon be captured and may be hung. AL together hls death is very well avenged.
 The two Wares, who were in jail at Hampton to await the action oJ the grand jury for eomplIcity, were the first victims, being taken from jail and hung to a convenient tree. Several days later MT. Witherington got on the track of negro who was supposed to be Bum. He secured the assistance of MT. Bullock and two others and chased him into a swamp. Witherington and one of the men drove the negro out of the swamp and as he ran out Bullock ordered him to surrender. He lefus- ed and Bullock shot him dead. His description tallied exactly with that given of Bum, even to scar on the left breast. A coroner's jury was impaneled and on the testimony giv- en, returned a verdict that the Legro was Wiley Bum. The remains were buried and application made for the reward offered by Gov. Clarke. It was paid and turned over to Bull lock. who fired the shot which killed the negro. No negro has since been reported missing in that vicinity and Wiley Bunn's double now occupies a nameIess grave. Bullock is now postmaster at Baxter, Ark, near Monticello.
 Nothing more was heard of the case until Bum surrendered in East St. Louis, August l and was taken Back to Hampton. where he confess ed all and implicated Dickinson With his arrest and conviction this noted case will come near to an end. 1t is supposed that Bum will be hanged some time this year Ar kansas Gazette.