The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-10-11
4 DUEL IN ARKANSAS
Six Persons Engage in q Desperate
Fight at EIdOradO.
THREE MEN KILLED
Another Of the Partic psLls Ii 20 Bad
~ W0uHsed He viii Die and Tive
Others Received Slight
Injuries In the Fight.

Eldorado. Ark, Oct 10.-Three men
were killed, one will die and two
others we're wounded in a shooting at.
fray on the streets here late Thurs
day afternoon.
The dead:
II. l.. bearing, constable.
Tom ParneH, farmer.
Walter Parneil. farmer.
The wounded:
Guy B. Tucker, city marshal. shot
six times and will die.
DR.. Hilton. wounds not serious.
Jim Parnell. not serious.
The shooting Is the sequel to the
killing on Sept. IS here by II. L. Dear
ing. Of Robert Mullens, which follow,
ed q wedding
On Sept. II a Mr.. Pickett of Tex
arkana arrived In the city to marry
Miss Jesse Stevenson, who was en-
ployed In MulleRs' photograph gallery.
The following morning he called at
the studio to see the young lady and
was attacked by Mullens and forced
to fee for his life, leaving his horse
and buggy, Mullens claiming that he
(Mullsnsl was engaged to the young
lady Pickett returned with City
Marshal Tucker and secured his
horse and was that night married
under the protection Of the officers,
taking the night train for Texarkana
They heard that Mulleas intended to
intercept them at a small station sew.
eral miles away and asked Marshal
Tucker aud Constable bearing 10 &C
company them, which they did. When
the station. which is known "a Nc
Aurrian. was reached MuIiens was on
the platform and was arrested as he
started TO board the train and brought
back TO this place where he was re-
leased on bond late in the afternoon.
At 8 p M, Mullens met Constable
bearing on the street and attacked
him for the arrest In the scufsie
bearing shot Mullens with a pistol
and the latter died the following
morning.
The Parnen boys were friends of
Mullens and Thomas Newton was a
friend OF bearing Some time ago, il
is alleged Newton accused the Par
nell boys OF setting nre to his house
and a few days afterward Newton
was stabbed In the back. but by
whom was not determined
Since the Killing Of Aullens all par
ties have been going heavily armed,
Thursday morning Jim Parneil and
Newton had some words but no one
was injured. II seems that both fac
prepared for trouble and II CO
when they met. II was al 4 80 that
DearinE Tucket and Newton were
walking along In front Of the Union
Grocery company on the east side of
the square when they met the three
Parnell brothers. Jim Parnell Is said
To have hred at Newton and in an in
slant the fusillade began. About
seventy 1--we shots were nred and IT
sounded like regular battle. The
men were SO close together that their
aim was deadly. II developed into .
man+on man affair, bearing and Tom
Parnell emptylnG their severA pistols
At each other Al q distance 30 close
that when they fell. unable To shoot
any more. their bodies formed cross.
The others wer nr1Ag promisculousiy.
Tucker was sAst sin times and viii
die DIR, Hilton, who tried to sep
arate the men, was also Shot, but not
fatally.
II Is said that just as the smoke was
clearing away Newton saw Jim Par
nell standing over tbs bodies of the
three dead and TIVE wounded men and
ran up Aad pointed his pistol at his
head.
My gun is empty" said Parnell.
throwing the weapon to the ground.
Newton did not take advantage OF
the unarmed man and did not shoot.