Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-24
BUNN IN TIE PEN. MURDERER PLACED THERE WEDNESDAY, FOR SAFE
 KEEPING. WANTS TO HANG SOON. Beginning of the End of a Complicated and, Peculiar
 Case.
WANTS TO HANG SOON

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 al 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. whe 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 l will be glad when they hang me. only wish to live long enough tosee John Dickinson, who got me into this, caught and convicted. Then l am ready for them to put the rope around ny neck. Then Martin will not bother me any more. Only last night, it being Tuesday, he apperr ed to in the jail at Hampton. He visits me every Tuesday night. It was on Tuesdap night that 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 Ceases 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 the governor last night concerning the reward paid in 1895.
 For the murder of Allen Martin three men have already been lyuched fouth stands convicted of murder in the first degree. with the moose around his neck and a fifth will soon be captured and may be hung. All together hls death is very well avenged.
 The two Wares. who were in jail at Hampton to await the action 0y the grand jury for complicity, were the first victims, being taken from jail and hung to a convenient tree. Several days later Mir. Witherington got on the track of negro who was supposed to be Bum. He secured the assistance of Mir. Bullock and two others and chased him into 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 efus- ed and Bullock shot bim dead. His description tallied exactly with that given of Bum, even to a scar on the left breast. A coroner's jury was impaneled and on the testimony giv- en, returned d 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 fir the shot which killed the negro. No negro has since been reported missing in that vicinity and Wiley Bnnn,s double now occupies namefees grave. Bullock is now postmaster at Baxter, Ark, near Monticello.
 Nothing more was heard of the case until Bnun surrendered in East St. Louis, August ], and was taken Rack to Hampton. where he confess ed all and implicated Dickinson With his arrest and conviction this noted case will come near to an end. It is supposed that Bum will be hanged some time this year.-Ar- kansas Gazette.