Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-03

cally depopu.ated the little town.
Further trouble was feared, but the
arrest Of Mccartney. the manager
Of the lumber plant; Prince, the
postn aster: W. C. Cotton. a mil!
employe; Mrs Mccartney and two
others employed at the mill. result
ed In the Indictment Of the three
former citizens and they are to be
tried at the coming session OF the
Cleveland circuit court.
The alleged assassinations were
the outcome of fight which occur
+; red between Bush and Mccartney
several nights previous They hao
a misunderstanding about tele-
graph wire, Bush being the station
agent there Mccartney was badli
worsted. Godfrey was Bush's friend
They came to Pine Bluff together.
were arrested on an assault charge
and after giving bond, returned to
Clio to get their clothes and Other
effects, Bush declaring that he
would leave there to avoid further
trouble. When Bush, Godfrey and
McEwen, the latter a fellow passen-
ger, alighted from the train at Clio
at night they were fired upon o.
persons, secreted IN the offices e
NE Grant Lumber Company, and
Godfrey and McEwen killed. Both
fell dead at the depot. Bush rail-
for his life. The evidence intro.
duccd at the hearing later was TO
the effect that Cotton followed
Bush through the lumber yards
Several shots were fired at him and
then Cotton returned to the station,
Nothing was heard or seen of Bush
from that time to yesterday morn
ing, when it developed that he Wa
at his wife's home in Clarks, La.
He will doubtless prove a VALUABLE
witness for the State at the coming
trials. His temperance is the
chief topic OF this section today.
Just how Bush managed to eS-
cape the fusilade Of Shots has not
been learned. Little details are OBJ
tainable from Clarks at present. lis
blood stained overcoat and hat. rid
died with bullets, were found til
day following the killings in the
lumber yards at Clio Thai strength.
ened the theory that he had been
killed. Chancellor Elliott, detectives
and undertakers searched the lum-
Der yards and the woods for MICS
around Clio for days. but could not
IND Bush's body. 1t was CHARGE
and credenee given the statemo1
that Bush's body, after being i'd
died with bullets, was thrown int
the furnace of the lumber COMPANY,
which was burning full blast at the
time of the tragedies.
The trouble at Clio, w.ich pra2'i-
caily resulted from the business
troubles among the stockholders 6
the Bluff City Lumber Company,
mas passed away permanently. Johp
+. Rutherford and D. H. Duncan 70
Gently purchased the interests OF the
1orks, who were the controllinet
stockholders in the Bluff City pc
pert1es, and the mills of that cot
Germ at Clio and elsewhere hay"
eeen reopened and are runnin1
smoothly. The finding of Bush, ali't
ana well, revives interest in the SEN
sational Clio episode. He will prob
aoiy be brought back here to testify
IN the murder cases at Rison. Il is
rumored here today that Bush S
wife has been nursing his wounds
lnmeted by his assailants at tl'H'
LOT Two months, and that he ma
sumciently recovered to make MS
whereabouts known. 1t is stated
enat' after being almost fatally
wounded at Clio, Bush made MS
escape and Travelled afoot through
the woods of Arkansas and Louis
ana, until he reached his wltes
home at Clarkn. Ever since his re-
turn there hn n,os heen under her