Newport weekly independent., 1903-07-03
Condemned Man at Hot Springs Takes the Life of Fellow
 Prisoner.
THEN DEFEATS GALLONS BY SUICIDE
Young Negress Stays Her Paramour at Little Rock and Two Street Car Motormen Fight Fatal Duel in a Dark Room With Knife and Pistol as Weapons.

in the county jail, where James Dougherty, recently convicted of the murder Of Jack Donahue and sen- fenced to death, murdered R. H. Will Hams, one of the men under arrest in connection with the famous foot racing cases. The prisoners, as is the custom, were turned into the jail corridor about a. m, to permit of cleaning of their cells.
 While Williams was washing his face, Daugherty, who had secured a razor from he coat pocket of a ne- gro prisoner, without word of warn ing, slashed his victim from behind, the steel cutting his liver almost in twain and making a deep wound ex- tending across the abdomen on the left side.
 Then waising the bloody razor in the air, the murderer defed the other prisoners to interfere.
 A moment later Daugherty sprang upon another prisoner named John son. bore him to the floor and was in the act of finishing him when. off cers arrived and forced him to re- treat into a cell
 When news of the tragedy and Will Hams death became known the peo- pie showed great indignation and about 12 o'clock at night a crowd of several hundred gathered in front of the jail with the intention of lynch ing Dougherty.
 Sheriff Williams, however, was on guard with a large number of depu- ties, but while he was pleading with the crowd to let the law take it's course a messenger from the inside announced that Daugherty had not only defeated the object of crowd, but had cheated the gallows by commit ting suicide.
 Upon investigation it was discov- cred that Dougherty had taken the steel ends of his shoestrings, fiat tened them out and made two inch incisions on each side of his throat, causing death.
 Dougherty was one of the tough. est characters ever convicted of a crime in this state. During his trial for the murder of Officer Donahue he demeaned himself in the most dis gusting manner, cursing his attor. neys, the court and all parties con- nected with the case.
 Duel to the Death. In a" dark room of small cottage on West Markham street. Little Rock, Pete Fulghum and Joe Campbell, street car motormen, engaged in a fight that cost Campbell his life. The men called on two young women, sisters, whose parents at the time were away from home. It seems jealousy existed between the men and quarrel arose. Campbell first at. tackled Fulghum, according to the latter's statement, with a piece of stove wood At the start of the trou- ble the young women ran from the room, upsetting the lamp in their flight The men continued the strug. gle, Fulghum claiming that Camp bell drew his knife after the piece of wood was knocked from his hands. Before the women had gone a block
 
 1 cession, and a moment later Full. ghum appeared at the door with smoking revolver in his hand. To parties that had gathered he stated what had transpaired and proceeded to the city hall, where he surren- dered. No one entered the house where the tragedy occurred until the arrival of officers, who found Camp bell lying on the floor with his face toward the wall, dead. Fulghum was held to the grand jury by the cor. oner's jury.
 Killed By Negroes. Robert Richardson. a young negro about 22 years of age, was stabbed in the heart with a pen-knife by Vida Binkley, 15-year-old mulatto girl, in the stable yard adjoining the resi-. dence of his employer at Little Rock, The girl surrendered and claims the killing was in self-defense. The girl had remained all night in Richard sons room, and says that when she started to leave about o'clock in the morning Richardson tried to make her give him a silver dollar she had in her purse. Upon her re- fusal the girl claims Richardson he gan to beat her. knocking her down and kicking her in the side. Ac- cording to her story she gained her feet and continued the struggle. sue. ceeding in getting hold Richardson's knife when she plunged the blade into his heart
 A negro porter passing the scene of the murder testified that he saw the couple fighting; that Richardson knocked the girl down and kicked her; that she appealed to him for assistance, but that he told her if was none of his affair and went on his way to work. The coroner's iury held the girl on a charge of inyoI untary manslaughter.