Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-12-01
SHERIFF EDGAR BREWSTER
 MAKES IMPORTANT ARREST
w. Edge Taken at Full Back SS Charged With Assassination of Albert Mcvay Here July 19, 190S-Two Others Arrested Confession of Negro Who Aided in Murder Solves Mystery Prosecuting Attorney Nixon Aids Sheriff in Getting
 Evidence and Arrests.

gro left the McVay place and went to work for F. H. Walker, a planter a few miles up the river He later, according to the negro's confession, got with Ethridge, whom. the confess sion reads, had been sent here from Monticello to kill Albert McVay.
 According to the negro's statement he accompanied Ethridge to McVay,s home on the western city limits of Pine Bluff and there they waited for McVay to put in his appearance It was Sunday night and they hid in some weeds at the side of the McVay home. McVay appeared after dark, but was accompanied by his wife and | the negro says Ethridge would not shoot then. McVay and his wife went down the road and in a short time soon returned. After they went into the house, the negro's written confession reads, McVay came to the window and while pulling down a
 
 fired through the window into his body
 The negro, who is now under ar rest at the instance of Sheriff Brew ster, in Texas, tells in his written confession all of the movements that followed How Mrs. McVay pulled her wounded husband from the ] floor near the window and blew out the light. The negro says he and } Ethridge fled and separated.
 Bloodhounds were put on their trail and a posse pursued, but no clue was ever secured and the hopes of local officers of ever solving the mystery were shattered when Sheriff j Brewster exploded the bomb last night that will revives.the murder here
 Since the recent developments a passenger on a Northbound Iron Mountain train on the morning after the assassination, has stated that he saw Ethridge board the train, en route to Pine Bluff, few miles south of this city and return here. One | of the McVay boys from Monticello, 1 who was on the train at the time ' coming to Pine Bluff, suspicioned him and asked what he was doing up this way Ethridge, it is stated. said that he was in the neighbor- hood looking over some land. After that Ethridge left this section and To- cated at Full Back, Miss
 It was stated that on the morning hefore the killing of Albert McVay, i man answering Ethridge's descr;p- tion, took "a drink with McVay in local saloon.
 The assassination of Albert McVay, threw this section into the greatest excitement. It followed the killing of B. A. Hardy, former member of the State Board of Charities, by John M. McVay, a brother of Albert, on aL Iron Mountain passenger train while it was standing at Union Station in this city. John M McVay was acquit- ted of the murder charge. He had , been previously shot by one of the Hardy's at Monticello and his injur- ies were so serious as to make am- putation of his leg necessary. The trouble at Monticello was followed by the removal of the McVays to this city. It was thought to be a closed incident until John McVay met B. A. Hardy in the railroad train here and killed him.
 Albert McVay had never figured in any of the trouble previous to his own assassination. He was success full in business here and was regard ed as the most popular and progres- sive of the Ncvays.
 The arrest of Ethridge, which was made on the strongest kind of evil