The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-10-27
DAkoTAN IS ACCUSED
OF MURDER IN ARKANSAS

DAkoTAN IS ACCUSED
OF MURDER IN ARKANSAS
Gregory. S. ID. Oct. 24-Several res
idents of Gregory and Trip counties,
including Postmaster Huston, Of Greg
DRY, and county officials and business
men are at Walnut Ridge, Ark, where
they went as witnesses in behalf Of j.
G. Langston, a Trip county home
steader, who was arrested last spring
by detectives from Arkansas on the
charge of having murdered A. w. Shi-
rey near Walnut Ridge on March 8.
The case appears to he one of mis-
taken identity, for the South Dakotans
will testify that at the time of the muir
der Langston was IN South Dakota.
Shirley was killed while In a store, tho
shot being fired through the open front
door, the murderer escaping in the
darkness.
The South Dakotans who have inter-
ested themselves in Langston's behalf
charge that there was q deliberate in
tention on the part of certain persons
interested in the prosecution to rail
road" Langston to prison or to the
gallows. Although he was arrested in
South Dakota last spring and taken to
Arkansas, no steps were taken to try
him until few weeks ago, when his
South Dakota friends interested Gov
ernor Wesley in the case.
Governor Wesley wrote to the gov
crnor OF Arkansas, who in turn urged
the authorities at Walnut Ridge to fix
the time for the trial Of Langston, so
there would be no further delay. Since
being arrested and taken back to Ar
kansas, Langston has been compelled
to lie I'm jail
The South Dakotans say that the
detectives, being unable to run down
the murderer, In order to secure the
reward which had been offered, traced
Langston. who had formerly resided in
that part OF Arkansas where the crime
was committed, to South Dakota and
arrested him on the charge.
The South Dakota friends of Lang
ston are confident he will be acquitted.
woMEM EMS E Icq sA,,E5 c c
Aberdeen, s. d.. Oct. 24.--By a vote
Of Is to 20. the South Dakota Fedora
tion of Woman's clubs yesterday after
noon refused to give its Official sane
ton to the woman suffrage cause, a
resolution endorsing the pending
amendment to the constitution of the
state. giving women the privilege Of
the ballot, being rejected by that vote.
1t is only fair to state, however. that
a number Of delegates were not In the
convention hall when the question was
brought up. Also, some of the advo-
Gates OF equal suffrage felt the fedora
ton should not be brought into the
campaign as a body.
The convention concluded it's DELHI
srations yesterday by electing officers
as follows: President, Miss Emma
Hall, OF Milbank; vice president, Mrs.
Housman, of Dell Rapids; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Zillah Wilson. OF Aber-
deem; recording secretary, Miss Rob-
inson. of Pierre; treasurer, Mrs. Mona
Reeve, of Flandreau; auditor, Mrs.
Mary AIKEN, OF Flandreau: general fed
Grafton secretary Mrs. H. E. Hendrfck,
OF Sioux Falls; eastern division cor
respondent, Mrs. Belle Butterfield, Of
MITCHELL; western division correspond
dent, Mrs. Claribel Tillorson, Of Lem
mon.
BISHOP O'GORMAN CONFIRMS
TWO CLASSES IN ONE DAY
Huron, s. D., Oct. 24.--Fifty- eight
young men and women were confirmed
by Bishop O'Gorman here Wednesday.
In the services the bishop was assisted
by Dean Daniel r. Desmond, of this
city, and number Of priests from out
OF the state. The bishop with his as.
sistants confirmed a class OF A at Ca
YOUR.
Aberdeen, S. D.--A purse containing
$1,000. found in a car seat on the
Milwaukee road remains unclaimed in
the handg of the exDreSS cOmpanv here