The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-08

TOSLTOnlS IeW lnCneS nlSn ana BdHl- bled there, and all the time Wood, who now wanted office as reformer, was prosecuting attorney.
 The most dramatic incident of the day was then enacted. MT Means 1 pointed to the open window of the court room, behind the chair in which witnesses are seated to testify to juries in trial cases, and charged that Wood described before that open win | dow how he had seen some other man than Bob Williams shoot Jim Hart in this city few years ago. even after Charles Webb, Ed Parham and others Means named, had sworn that Williams did the shooting Means de- scribed all the effects of this trial, in which the widow of the plaintiff was the alleged blind victim" and adroit- ly asked Wood pointedly: How much did Bob Williams pay you for that testimony?'
 Mir. Means next took up the incl dent of Woods defense of the Buck foot race gang here, which he alleged resulted in Bob Williams giving Wood client that paid him s11 ,0OO in mon- ey as bond which Wood held and refused ever to turn over after the Buckfoot man had been murdered by fellow prisoner in the county jail | here. He declared that a federal court decision by Judge Treber had ordered the money paid over to the estate of th~ murdered man but that Wood still held on to it.
 There were other features hardly less strenuous in their allegations, and when MT. Means retired from the l stand the tension was in measure relieved
 Judge Wood was next to speak. He , began his address by going back to his early life in Ashley county. He spoke of his parentage, his family of brothers, his early struggles, of hay ing been baptized in the Baptist faith | in Beech Creek, of the removal to 1 Garland county. He then told how after three years residence here he, | clean young man knocking at the door Of opportunity, had appealed to the voters of the district and to those of Hot Spring county. for support in a race for district attorney against experienced politicians and experi- enced men of the bar who had long rasts behind them.
 addressed for that support of thirty years ago, which helped him in the early struggles of life, and recited how the trust had been remembered in the years that followed, when he had lived as God-like a life as he knew how, how he never wilfully or 1 maliciously injured fellow man, and how today he could present his full | life to answer in loudest words of fal- sity the insinuation by Mir. Means that he had been a paid perjurer, or that any of his motives or purposes were impure.
 In regard to a criticism by MT. Means for having taken up the fight of Republican to unseat a Democrat | Gin the Prichard contest easel MT. | Wood stated that Prichard had brought the case to his firm, that the | firm had accepted it (the firm is Wood, Henderson & Wood and that the firm had prosecuted the case with the vigor and enthusiasm any client was entitled to receive.
 MT. Wood reviewed the work he took credit for in regard to the mod e, grand jury" of three years ago. and occused Mir Means of playing in league with law violators which pre- vented much more from being accom- | plished in the prosecution of race track cases against H. O. Price, Dan Stuart and John Condon. Next he reci;ed his experiences in the South | ern Club raid of a few weeks ago, laying the blame for that failure also at the feet of Mir. Means, and extoll- :, ing Scott Wood, his son, again. for I the part he had taken in that raid. Tn this connection he stated that when one gambler later told Scott Wood how he had been watching him q. B. wood), Scott had replied calmly; "Yes, I was watching you at the same time"
 Mr Rutherford was next to speak, and he urged his candidacy for the office as young man candidate for a young man office. He referred to the hardships he had endured to re- ceive schooling here. of his later strug gles at the State University, of his law work at Little Rock. and how he | I t..