Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-07-07
SENTIMENT CHANGING
Soasa Believe . Mistake Has
B.1n Made In h55i
Case.
OFFICERS DO NOT BELIEVE Ht#
GUILTY OF TIE CRIME
CHARGED.
said an Examination Of Kidd Reveals
1 No Symptoms c>sease I'M
parted to Child.
KIDD STILL At LITTLE ROCK

Notwithstanding the threatening
end determined demonstrations maae
b. The mob Of last Saturday night ard
their yigils which have not yet ended,
no lynehing has yet occurred III PINE
RInff for The reason that Kidd has
never been found by the angry MOB,
and probably never will until the OF
fcers choose to reveal What disposl-
tfon has been made OF him. The OF
1cers assert that he was taken to lat
tie Rock and placed in the peniten-
tiary. where he still remains.
The mob last Saturday night vas
not content with searching the jail
and its premises. Being satisfied thac
it did not conceal nldd the mob COM
nenced to look elsewhere. \ negro
who works at Saunders mill went 50
far as to say that he had seen klGG
in the county expos. 9dAd1hS IN
the courthouse yard. The mob follow
ed up the clue. The building was en-
tered and ransacked for the negro but
without avail The courthouse, adj
Joining buildings and trees were lo0E.
ed mo. but still without result
Then one OF the mob gave out the
opinion that Kidd was in the custody
of Deputy .o..>.-.. Pleas Culpepper, at
Rn1l'c thp RIVER
TINS opinion was deduced from some
thing he had heard somebody else say,
who had gotten it from another party,
or in a way similarly intagible, and
carriage was engaged and halfdozen
men went to run down the clue. They
ran it down thoroughly and returned
about daybreak empty handed.
The ring leaders in the mob then
thought of Sheriff Mccoy. and dele
cation went to his home ia the early
hours of the morning, uncerremo-
niouslv aroused him from his slumbers
and asked for information concerning
the whereabouts Of Kidd. Major Nc
Coy. it is understood. told them that
Kidd had not been brought to Pine
Bluff. Some of the mob leaders have
gone so far in their anger and dlSap-
pointment over the failure to get hold
of II id as to make threatening re-
marks about the county o1iicl&-s VINO
are doing their sworn duty in pro
tecting Kidd from the violence of the
nlab. Some apprehension Was felt
Il &,
night and to forestall any danger from
them. a guard was placed and main
tanned in his house all night, but no
one put in an appearance.
From very reliabis- authority the in
formation is gained that Kidd is in
the penitentiary at Little Rock and
has never been removed from it except
to the penitentiary hospital, where he
has ben undergoing an examination 20
find out whether or not he is afflicted
with the disease alleged to have been
communicated to the little Murray
girl. In fact the information is that
the examination of Kidd at the peni-
tentiary at Little Rock revealed the
fact that he did not have the disease
he was alleged to have, and that he
had had no such disease recently.
Heretofore the actions of the mon
have been condoned in a large meas
ure by the people. but Notwithstanding
the feeling stirred up. there has been,
ever since the affair was aired to the
public, an undertone Of belief among
cfo1y NJ
some kind had been made. Especially
is this true of the officers and others
high in authority who have been in
strumental in saving the negro from
the mob. Some of them argue that
there are several links in the story
which are MISSING on6 fheu will never