Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-09-28
SUCARMAN HAS
 NOTHING TO SAY Man Said to Have Been With Mrs. Diehl will Wait
 
 for Grand Jury.
DIEHL'S STATEMENT
Says His Wife Told Him Before Death That Sugarman Was
 With Her on Pike,

Little Rock, Sept. 27.-"I have ab solutely nothing to say about the case,' declared Victor Sugarman this morning to a Democrat reporter, when questioned with reference to i the statement that he was riding with Mrs. Charles E. Diehl, when she was shot to death on the Sweet Home pike.
 T neither affirm nor deny any thing" he continued. T presume that will be called before the Grand Jury, and if I have anything to tell I will tell it then. I have no state ment whatever to make at this time.'
 This is the attitude that has been assumed by Victor Sugarman today to all who have approached him on the subject
 Charles DiehFs Statement.
 The statement made by Charles Diehl, last night concerning the trag- edy, has not had the effect of solv- ing the mystery as to who did the shooting in which Fred Gossell and Miss Nellie Meyers were slightly wounded and Mrs. Diehl was wound ed so seriously that she has since died, and the negro Hatton killed.
 The public had all along held to the theory that MT. Diehl was not in the buggy with his wife at the time she was shot, and every news story tcld in the Democrat contradicted his statement But he told all he knav of the tragedy yesterday, and he says that Mrs. Diehl told him before she died that Victor Sugarman was with her in the buggy when she was shot. Here is the ante-mortem statement made by Mrs. Diehl to her husband, according to the statement credited to him:
 "Mr. Sugarman came to our house and ask for you. 1 told him you b had gone to the Maccabees. He said he had come by to get you and take you, to a meeting of the Owls. walked to the edge of the stoop and he said: You look as though you were going somewhere. 'Yes,' said, I am going over to Miss -. He said, Jump in and I will drive you over.' I got in. It was beautiful moonlight night. He asked ne to drive a little further and we drove on and on out the Sweet Home pike and I got shot. That's all know.
 Mir. Sugarman Silent.
 MT. Sugarman was seen by Dem- crar reporter this morning, and he positively refuses to make any state- ment concerning the matter, either to affirm or deny the statement of Mr.. Diehl. He declares that he does not know who fired the shot that killed Mrs. Diehl. He will not even say whether or not he thinks the shoot ing was done by the negro, and says he has no sort of statement to make. either to affirm or deny allegations that have been made.
 i It will be remembered that the Democrat published statement from Capt. Swain, the superintendent Of the Confederate Home, some da!s ago, in which he stated positively that Mrs. Diehl was accompanied to the home on the night she was shot by a man whose name, as he under stood it, was ''Seigler,' but but MT. Swain admitted at the time that the |name was pronounced indistinctly, and he could not be positive that glv- en him was right. But he gave a description which was published Ill the Democrat the same day, which seemed to fit MT. Sugarman, and since that time there has been a per sistent inclination on the part Of the rublic to believe that Sugarman was the man who was with Mrs. Diehi' and the statement of MT. Diehl only
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