Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-06-27
prosecuting Attorney Campbell Says Immediate Trial E..ill Be Insisted Upon-Knife Found in Mail Box the Grand Jury-May Have Been Placed There by Another

Little Rock, Ark. June 26.--Short
 ly before noon the Pulaski county
 grand jury returned another partial
 report and adjourned until July 6,
 when the body will meet again and prepare the final report. The fea- ture of the report filed this morn ing was an indictment returned against Earl Dill, charging him with criminally assaulting Miss Ray Burk halter on the morning of June 21 Under the indictment no bond is all lowed for the prisoner.
 As soon as the indictment was made matter of court record, Pros ecuting Attorney Roy D. Campbell arose and asked Judge Lea to make an early setting of the case, as he was anxious to have it tried immeA | diately. It was agreed the prose- outing attorney should notify Lewis Rhoton, attorney for the defendant, and the two appear in court Monday morning at which time the case will be set for trial Prosecuting Attor ney. Campbell was emphatic in his request to- have the case set, so it would come up for trial in not later that ten days.
 The indictment charges Dill with criminal assault, and the following witnesses are named to be summoned for the state in the trial:
 Dr. A. E. Sweatland, Dr. Walt, - Grooms. 805 Main street; Meek. Gleasons Hotel; Ray Burkhalter, T. F. Snider, A. B. Chichester, Barney Steil, G. A. Harvey, Second and Vic tory; Mrs. Fertine. Lee Childress, George Rison, Louie Reichardt, Mrs. w. G. Spencer, Argenta. and Dr. w. E. McClain Argenta.
 Before the grand jury left the room Judge Lea requested the body to complete it's labors by the second week in July, as he desired to ad- iourn the present term of court at that time. George Thornburgh, fore man of the grand jury, replied the jury had gone into every matter be- fore it, and had taken up all cases in Jail and under bond and would require only short time to make up it's final report at the next meet ing. Foreman Thornburgh also stat ed there were three cases which had been referred to the jury which would be passed on to the succeeding grand jury for action.
 The grand jury also returned number of other indictments, the ma jority of which were in misiemeanor cases, the defendants fin which are not yet under arrest. One case was dismissed, no indictment being re- turned.
 Mysterious Knife Was Found.
 Just "A hours almost to the minute after the tragic affair at Fifth and Main street, butcher knife with a l4-inch blade was found in the Jumbo" mail box at Fifth and Main streets by a postman. The knife was turned over to Mir. Cate, the assist ant postmaster, and he in turn sent the knife to Sheriff Roberts AL though there may be no connection between the crime and the knife, the Knife was nevertheless turned over to the grand jury and it was exam med at the time the Dill investigation was on.
 The knife is a formidable looking weapon, The blade as stated, is IA ihches in length, and about two inch- es Wide The handle is of wood The blade comes to a sharp point and the steel is curved in the shape of a scim- itarv-syt wfTr found at 11:SO a. m. on the day afN the assault on Miss Burkhalter. No
 One Theory Advanced.
 sheriff Roberts does not undertake 'o connect the knife with any one. All the officers or the postoffice force AhoW Is the mere fact that the knife vas 1ound. The theory has been ad- 'anced that negro might have been