The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1904-02-27


QUESTION for King:
Little Rock, Ark
Alex Freezing, Harrison, Ark.
Release King Hold Hudson and
others Warrant mailed to sheriff today,
tSigned) JEFF DAVIS,
Now, governor, can you not see
that | am wounded at your lying
about me so clumslly' Why did
Won not tell decent lie9 Why
did You not commit forgery, in
order to lie mp to date, like You
have generally done9 Read what
the prosecuting attorney says re-
lative to Lee Kings case.
State of Arkansas 90
County of Boone
When Mcknight prosecuting attorney
and sheriff Hull Of Forsyth Mo-, came
to Jasper, Ark. two weeks before our
court in Boone county, Judge Mitchell
asked me what sort of case | had
against Lee King then told him that
the witnesses were railroad men, and
could not learn their whereabouts, and
could not get them, and without them
| could not convict King, On January
18th, the first day of our Boone circuit
court on roll-call Of cases, when Lee
King = case was reached, | told the
court then that | could not make the
case for the reasons given, This was in
the morning, and would have entered
mol pros, then, but King was, at the
time, in iil under the orders Of the
governor, awaiting reQuisition papers
to take him to Missouri, 10 stand his
trial thsre for murder. In the afternoon
GOV Davis wired freezing to release
King. Then | could no longer, rs an
honest officer, hold King in Jail then
entered mol pros and did right. must
assume the full responsibility for my
official acts. Judge Mitchell was not
responsible for Kings release for the
state case | was, JAMES NJ, SHINN.
This February s, 1904,
You see, governor You are
caught and what wounds me SO
deeply you liedabou me so clumsi.
~. Try again, You may be able to
do betterneXt time, Gov. DOckery
of Missouri asked You simply for
your permission to send into your
state aud get Hudson, King, Curl.
ey and Red, four men Justly
charged with murder After this
request, Captain Pace, Les Kings
attorney, saw You. Remember that
in this case 'you was seen" After
being seen you h0nored the re.
QUESTION for all the parties but
King. The people Of this section
Of the state did not think King
any better than any other man to
stand his trial You probably
heard that the grand jury de
nouuced YOU in body; aud thai
the trial jury stood about % fol
Wood aud one u0n.committal
You probably heard that "bciLl
seem in tins case was remembered
in connection with yonr "benl
seem in the Lee Johnson case.
You probably heard that THE
case, ~ connecting with the lie,
Johnson case, would cost you III,
loss of twenty counties in north
west Arkansas that YOU had solid
| ~ for YOU, This information prob
ably made YOU such gibbcrinI
idiot that you could not tell any
thing but the clumsy lie YOU di,
land the lie In which YOU are badl,
caught,
Now, governor, sometime ago
you know, you tried to blackmai
me into silence, and sent me wor,
las 10 what charges You wool'
make. and when did not "Scarc,
Iyou gave It out, through YOU
friends, that YOU would return I,
Boone and mop up the earth witt
me. Now you have lodged I,
secretly circulating lalsehood'
Nou wrote that you would max,
your charges good and back then
Iup. dare YOU TO try, Come, gov
crnor, aud make your charges goo,
back them up Ms y0n said yol
would, ! assure YOU, NOn are IN u,
personal danger such ours, n
Non, are never IN much danger
Nou have shown your ability 4
big like u whining eur with Rccs
Higgins, You showed your ruunlu
ability with Bud Mcconnell Nnv
Geo, W. Murphy Remember tina
ms governor Non have much great
.rr power to ininre than ! HAY,
You have used IT, All ! ask I
your proof ! say You ARE n Hat
that you have no proof; that go
struck me IN the dark hoping 4
iucltc the criminal element to loI
low your example, You woul
hnNe me pssNssINatcd II NOn coult
you would give amy man n pardo
and u suil Of clothes 10 shoot N
from the brush, ! believe this
Nour usual Offer, bat YOU might II
e.. go. 10.