The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1903-06-26
NO. 40.
HELD UNDER A GRAVE CHARGE.
derer of Mrs Augusta Bailey
Near East Alton. Ill.

Alton, ILL.,. June 24.-Upon informa-
tion furnished by Miss Eliza Bailey,
the daughter of Augustus Bailey,
Sheriff G.. Frank Crow and Chief of
Police John Maxwell of Alton arrest
ed Frank Greathouse. an employe of
the Equitable Powder Co.. at East Al
ton, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Bailey and the attempt to kill
the daughter, Eliza, and the young
son.
The assault was made upon the
three members of the Bailey family
as they were returning home in
buggy near East Alton.
The mother died the following day
at st. Joseph's hospital in Alton and
not until Tuesday morning did the
daughter recover sufficiently to give
any account of the affair.
When the hospital attendants found
that the girl was better, they sent for
Sheriff Crow and Chief of Police Max
we'll, and the girl made the following
statement:
II
at him when he stepped up to the
buggy at the ferry. He had been try
ing to quarrel with me for long
time. His first name was Frank. and
he worked at the powder mills, and
when | would go there he would al
ways step up ~ me to see what /
wanted.
Thursday night he came to where
we had the skiff and were hiring il
out to boys and girls. When | was
ready to go home he wanted me to
stay, and offered me half dollar to
let him have the sliff twenty minutes.
l told him no, and said | was going
home. lie began quarreling about IL
and Mr.. Brown ordered him to stop. |
put the skiff away and started to po
with my mother.
Mamma put our money in the
pocketbook under the seat of the bug
gy and we started away When we
came near the hill at Jobs place.
saw some one coming, and told man.
ma we were being followed. She said
she hoped not. and | said / did, too.
Then the man came up to us, and
1t was the same one | had the trouble
with at the boat, and before at the
powder mills. He was always quar-
reling about me. He stepped no to
the buggy and dragged mamma out,
and then Everett and L. lie said he
would be the end of us all and /
begged him not TO hurt US. He
struck us with his fists, but | do not
know whether he had anything in
his hand"
Upon the information the officers
went to East Alton, where they found
Greathouse working at the powder
mills He was taken TT once to st.
Joseph's hospital, and when he en-
tered the room Miss Bailey identified
him as the man she meant.
She was still very nervous while
making the statement and identifsing
Greathouse. In making her state
ment she frequently repeated, and at
times her words were spoken with
difficulty.
Her condition is still critical.
As soon as Greathouse had been
taken before the girl he was sent to
Edwardsville by Sheriff Grow, where
he was lodged in the Madison county
Jail for safekeeping.
The feeling at East Alton over the
crime is intense, but it is not thought
that any attempt at violence will be
made by the residents of that VIII
lage.
Greathouse is 30 years old, and has
been living at East Alton for two
years, being employed AT the powder
factory the greater part of the time.
He says he came here from near
Brussels, Calhoun county, Ill. lie is
five feet seven inches tall and well
built. The acquaintance of Great
house and the girl began at the pow
der works, where both were employed
Greathouse protests his innocence