Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-17
RUN DOWN
OF ELDORADO WILLIAMS
AND ACCOMPLiCES HAVE
BEEN CAUGHT.
Andersen Young, Charged CT Being
az Aecompice, Acquitted on
Examining Trial.

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keeper - div45a stable Hos7== "a 'he
nig.a 81 July .. has been run down
and placed behind prison 6a $. He is
Ioha 3Ietasomery. a white man and
AndeFzea Yeen& End Liza Reynolds,
also WHtfa. have baen arrested and
locked up as Montgomery accom-
rlices, #.AIl are employees t.se= Cat
TON Belt shops
Nom gomefE corfesse& ta#the xii
ing, but says that it was uninten-
uonally done He says that he ana
Young AMI Reynolds wenl to the home
OF the Williams woman on the night
CT July 3, remaining there for some
time. When they We're ready 10 leave
Montgomery says that he and the
Williams woman became engaged in
a dispute. He says that she had his
coat and refused to let him have it.
He says he had gone out in the hall
and was leaving the house. Merely
to frighten the woman for refusing
to give up his coat he says that he
drew a pisto1 which he had and f> -
| into her room with no intention Oh
shooting her and says he left the
| house not knowing that he had shot
the woman.
The public regards Montgomery
story as a very lame one and so far
as the Graphic has been able to get
an expression nobody sympathlzes
with Montgomery at all. In fact, he is
generally condemned. Everybody who
expresses an opinion, and nobody re-
fuses, says that Montgomery had no
business at place like that kept uy
Eldorado Williams, and if he had
been robbed of his purse and all of his
clothes he had but little room to
make kick, much less to kill the
woman Not much CT edit is put IN
! his story about merely shooting into
j tne woman S room to alarm her and
with no intention of harming her
| The general opinion is that Montgom-
cry should be severely punished.
Montgomery and Young were arrest
ed by officer Tom Meeks, but to
| Frank Culpepper is due all the credit
for running down the murderers OF
the woman. and the work done by Cul-
| pepper shows him to be an officer OF
more than ordinary ability. He went
to work on the case after other offi-
| GERS had said there was no clue pos
sible by which the murderer could
be caught, and successfully ran the
the guilty person and his accompllces
down. BY other officers the theory
was advanced that the killing was
done by a negro. because OF the fact
that the negro inmates of the house
claimed not TO know who did the kill.
ing. evidence that it was done by a
negro. as negl oes nearly always shield,
ed each other in crime, especially the
lower element But Culpepper went
on the theory that the crime was com
mitted by a white person, and results
show tnat his conclusions were cor.
| rect.
On the night of the killing Culpepper
| observed three men together On the
, streets somewhat intoxicated, but
gave the matter no special thought
till next day, when the inmates OF
the Williams womans house sad
three white men came to the house,
and one of them went to room
with the Williams woman, remaining
for some time, after which pistol
shot was heard, the men fed from
the house and the inmates found the
woman dying. Culpepper suspected
that the three men he saw on the
streets We're the tn, ee men who were
at the home of the Williams woman
and that one CT them fired the fatal
shet. On that theory he Went &c