Smyrna times., 1905-08-16
DETECTIVES WORKING UP
FRIENDSHIP MURDER CASE
ARE NOW ON TRACK OF "BI0 HENRY" WHOM
KNApPER CLAIMS he is MISTAKEN FOR
Two More Arrests Made the Past Week-Eiear-
Ing Took Place In Smyrna Yesterday
Afternoon n-PrisOners Committed.

Two More Arrests Made the Past Week-tiear-
ing Took Place In Smyrna Yesterday
Afternoon n-PrisOners Committed.
The Mt. Erie ndship Camp Meeting
Grove murder case is still the much
talked of question in this vicinity and
the State Detectives are still working |
on the case night and day to solve the |
mystery. Since Henry Knapper, the !
South Carolina negro has been held |
for the murder of George Jackson and !
the plea that he and his friends are
putting up of mistaken identity, the
detectives are looking for Henry Byrd,
known as "Big Henry" whom KNAPP
per claims is the man who committed
the deed. His whereabouts have puZ-
zled the State officers but yesterday
Detective Ratledge got on to some In
formation and left for Chester, Pa,
where he hopes to apprehend him.
The arrest of ''Big Henry" will be
most important development in the
case. Yesterday Edward, alias mike"
Williams of Milford, was brought to
town by Detective Ratledge charged
with being accessory before the fact in
the murder of Jackson. He was rep.
resented by Attorney Donald Mar
shall. Williams plead guilty of play
ing crap but denied having anything
to do with the shooting. Magistrate
Cummins, however, held MIN in $1,000
bail for his appearance at court. Ar
thur Williams, another colored man,
who last Friday was discharged from
lack of evidence, was again arrested
Monday by Constable Jones upon the
authority of Detective Ratledge who
had secured additional evidence i'm.
plicating him in the shooting affair.
: Despite Adams plea of innocence,
Magistrate Cummins held him in S100i
bail for his appearance at court. In
q default, both men were taken to Dover
: This makes nine prisoners in the case
e Friday the state detectives brough
e from Dover Jail to Smyrna the negroe
+ charged with talking part in the shoot
e ing at Friendship campmeeting las
:. Sunday week. Eight prisoners wer
If arraigned for hearing before Magis
g trate Cumming. Since the untor
a tunate affair the detectives have beer
e working diligently on the case. As
n result of an all-day hearing whicl
It took place in the hose room next doc
b to the Jail, two men and one woma
y were held for court. three of them q
l. witnesses. Two of the latter, job
Ie Sweeney, white, and Ross Handy, M
n gro, furnished surety. Henry KnaI
pei or Knapper, the tall negro frol
Columbia, S. c., who it is allege
:. shot right and left, killing Jackson
and wounding William Guy an
E. Lloyed Berry, was held without ba
on three charges. Arthur Adams,
Seaford, was released because Magi
g. trate Cummlns was not satisfied tn
+. the evidence connected him in an
1n way with the shooting, Bertha Yor
- tue WOUhu III buo Gaze, VI WnOm ~
ed alleged, cried out during the fracas
ng shoot their heads off was held as an q
he cessory after the fact. The othe
is held are Elzey Hevalow, who begi
lp, the shooting; Lloyd Berry and W
ed liam Guy, two of the wounded me
James Butcher, John Baynard, Thorn
IN johnson and James Pierce. Hevalo
go the man whom the detectives disco
u.s. cred as the real inciter of the riot, il
all hunchback. The detectives did sol
ng clever work in reapprehending "
Ike liam Guy, who was thought to hs
up been spirited away. Directly af
ur- the hearing an adjourned meeting
the the Coroner's jury was held and fir
'et, the testimony given verdict was r.
400 dered that George Jackson came to
sak death by means of a pistol shot fiji
lch by Henry Knapper.
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