Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-07-03
KIDD IS NOW SAFE
Negro WHO Nade Alleged
Assault on Murray
Child.
WAS CAUGHT ASOUT 2 p. M. WE'D
NESDAY RY CONSTABLE
CHEEK.
Mob xsnpo5nted by Officers Taking
:<iad"o Little Rcck snd Placing
t4ina il t1e Fer.
MARTIN MASH ALSO REHoVEU
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3=H. kidd. The young negro who
is se3 t0#a have brutality assaulted
tg#ae1 e1-yeafsold daughter of Mr..
Ffaaz Murray a full account Of which
was SVEN ia5Eednesday S Graphic, is
. n8H=zsfeIJ ea5eonced behind the state
p6a=Eaatnry walls in Little Rock.
Hsz5 HtGFe VAS effected Wednesday
Al ON about O'Clock. and the
prisoner Was taken 20 smart.s= cross
! inelaare he#Naa placed Oh the ): =
/ p. N. IRON Mountain and sent to Little
R3eiz.
IEa6es n6tzteeuire a 9o0th=aSer 10
fofa6. Il what would hate Happened il
Pho Bluff last night had INizld= been
brought 10 tits city.-After the details
OF 8Ae terrible affair. became we'll cir
eulaeed by the press Of t4e city, indiG-
nation at the negros alleged crime
was running high. There was no ger
eraI organization formed to take tie
lie Of the prisoner had he beea
brought to this city,=but almost every
man seen on the stIeet= expressed his
intention OF Joining any mob that
should be organized. The friends of
the Murray family felt deeply the
enolminty OF the crime, and had the
prisoner been brought here. there
would have been bloodshed Either
I the Ngro would have been lynched.
or Is ssmob would have been repulsea
by TIE officers of the law. No one
/ realized this more than the officers,
and they adopted the only feasible
plan for preventing trouble. They
could not afford to put themselves in
the attitude Of giving the prisoner
over to the mob. and they did not wish
. to have to defend the negro's life. as
such q state Of affairs would have GER
Z tainly resulted in bloodshed.
/, The capture of Kidd was effected by
Constable Cheek. He and his deputy,
Mason Philpot had worked assiduou5-
.lv Oh The case. Most Of Tuesday night
was spent by them in running down
clues and in searching for others.
"Wednesday Deputy Constable Philpot
located Kidd in the house of rela
tive in Hobe5en There be and Con
stable Cheek went Wednesday after
moon. The inmates Of the house told
them that KIDD lad been there bat
haa left the house some time =hoforc.
and had taken to the country by the
Monticello road leading out Of Pine
Bluff in souiherlE direction. Nj.
Il Philpot returned to town and Cheek
started in pursuit of tie negro. He
3 went several miles without hearing
anything Of Kidd. Every person he
met, most Of whom were negroes. were
asked if they had seen the negro. All
ansv cred negatively.
Cheek is a pretty smooth officer and
the iGea occurred to him that it might
he we'll fer him to change his tactics
Instead Of asking the negroes along
the road if they had seen Kidd, giving
his description at the same time, he
asked them if they had seen white
man. to which every negro he met
thereafter replied that he hadn't s2"n
q white man, but he had seen a Eeg.,o
go Ey a short time before on wag N.
; BY thisLnethod he gained all the m
formatfHn he wanted and hurried on
hntil before long he came upon a two
horse wagon occupied by two men.
Cheek rode up to the wagon. haltei it,
and. at the first glance at the face O.
q one of them, saw he had the right
nan.
He placed Kidd under arrest and
rove back towards town with hina
t Wiley Jones park Check teleph IN
to Sheriff Mccoy. telling him that
had captured Kidd, and asking
lat disposition should be made OF
n. me sheriff realized that Kidd
ould be taken to Little Rock. Dep
Sheriff Pleas Culpepper was de-
He'd out to where Cheek and the
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