Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-12
MOB LYNCHED
 INNOCENT NEGRO
Siackman Did Not Arrive From Lake Village Until After Shooting in
 Argenta.

Little Rock, Oct Fit now seems t9 bG clearly established that when the mob of four masked men oyerpoWered Turnkey Folsom Davis and took II. C. Hlackman, a negro, from the ArSenta city jail Sunday night. strung hlm to a telegraph pole on the corner of Sixth and Main streets, and afterWard
 filled his body with buckshot. it lynch cd an innocent negro, If the crime charged to him was taking part ill the fusillade which killed John Lindsay and wounded his son. Milton Lindsay. porter that he had been in Lake Fi!- lage Saturday and did not reach Ar genta until after the arrival of belated train No. 10G of the Valley division of the Iron Mountain Saturday night iS corroborated by reputable citizens of Little Rock, among them K. F. Wiley and George R. Pugh, attorneys, and Sam Wilson, an Iron Mountain detcc- tive, who were in Lake Village Salul= day, and say that they saw Blackman in that town Saturday morning. It would have been impossible for him to have left Lake Village and arrived in Little Rock before 9:20 Saturday night. several minutes after the shoot ing in Argenta, in which Blaekman is alleged to have taken part.
 Tran No. 106, which ordinarily is due to arrive at the Union station in Little Rock at 6: 50 o'clock p. m., was more than two hours late, and did not arrive until 9:20. It arrived at the station in East Little Rock at 9:12 o'clock. The mail register of the Lit tie Rock postofice shows that the train arrived at 9:25. An examination of the train dispatcher's sheet reveal ed the information that the train reached Little Rock at 9:20 o'clock. The conductors reg ster in the train dispatchers office gives the time of ar rival at S:2O o'clock, but this is an er- TOT, as the dispatcher's sheet gives the time as 9:20, and the dispatcher's sheet is correct, and the conductors s record has since been corrected. II was stated yesterday that in register ing the conductor made mistake of an hour, and this is borne out by the of passengers who were on the train.
 Whie there are no persons who " Il state positively that Blaclman was or train No. 10G Saturday night, it is known that he could not have been in Lake Village Saturday morning and have reached Little Rock before the arrival of that train in this city, as there are no other trains on which he could have travelled
 According to the statements of Ar, g1nta authorities and others who were in the vicinity. the shooting in Argen. ta Saturday night, in which John Lindsay was killed and Mlt Lindsay, his son, wounded, occurred between S:3o and o'cloel, aid between those hours it seems to ba clearly establish ed that Blackman was on train Ne 106 en route to Little Rock On the other hanl however. there are per sons who were in the vicinity of the Coum under akins estab ishment where the shooting took place who said that thy saw Blackman with d pistol in his hand at the time, and it was on their statements that Black man was arrested as having been i'm plicated with a1res- ard Charley Col um and Louis s ,yies iu lhe shooting ot the Lindsays and placed in the city jail, from whence he was taken by four masked men and lynched
 The statements of the witnesses who are alleged to have seen Black man were to the effect that Blackman came out of his confectionery store, which was across all allGv from the Colum store and undertaking estab- lishment. With a pistol in his hand when the shooting began, and fired at Milt Lindsay, who was making his way across the street. Lindsay went into grocery store. and after the door of the store Was closed an. shot was fired and the ball passed through the door and lodged in packaga of washing powder. Black man is alleged to have run up the stairway in the Tabor building. two Or three doors east of tha Colum estab- lishment, with tha pistol in his hand. and to have come down without it. A search of the upstairs of tho Ta ,,ar