The Forrest City times., 1911-04-07

ginning to settle into the. deep dark ness, unconscious of any danger, the missills of death laid him low. By this act, loving wife became widow and his children became orphans. If the evidence be true and the verdict of the jury be founded on facts, you must have been moved and seduced by an evil spirit; having loving wife at home and knowing the innocence that comes from the lips of those in- nocent babes, ought to have ho' n sufficient to have checked any wi-kcu
 impulse, and ought to have been suf- | ficient to have stayed bloody hand. | However, having been instigated by evil motives and in the pursuit of maliciousness and revenge, you took the life of human being which you cannot restore. Guided by the in- nocence that comes from the knowl- edge of loving wife and innocent children, it seems that the love of the wife and the great incentive that comes from them ought 10 have stayed your act. So if the law be pronounced upon you the time may be fixed by which your own loving wife becomes a widow and your children orphans. and you will cast on their lives blot that will follow them as they go about over the world of grief and islands of sorrow, this great memory will still belong to them until the great God shall take them hence.
 So you will see the great wreck that has been wrought to not only one but to two families, who needed the guid- ance of both husbands and who may be lost to both.
 If the fact be true and the verdict of the jury be true, you gave your vic- tim no time to consider the final re- suits of death. Unsuspected his life was taken. He fell upon the roadside when darkness was shedding it's man. tie over the earth, and his riderless horse went to his home. His wife found him in the road, his coagulated blood standing in statues on his body. She found him in that condition. That is an offense under our laws that cannot be condoned. The Mosaic law says: "An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, and a life for life'
 So it is the judgment of the Court that you be remanded to the custody of the sheriff, and by him safely kept until the 7th day of July, 191l when you will be transferred to the county of Lee, and you will be, by the sheriff of that county, in the jailyard of that county, hanged by the neck until you are dead, and maySthe God of Isaac and Jacob add the great God of the universe have mercy upon you
 You may stand aside.
 Kirby was assassinated August l9, 1910, about o'clock at night The ar rival of his riderless horse at home alarmed his wife, and she instituted a search. The body of her husband was found by her about a mile from their home. He had been shot in the back with shotgun, and life had been extinct for some time when the body was found.
 Intense excitement prevailed after the assassination became generally known. McAllister was arrested short ly after. The two men, Sullivan and Williams, now in jail, were arrested as accessories to the murder llthree have been in jail here since the assas- sination. Feeling was so intense in Lee county, where the murder was committed, that change of venue was granted and the men were placed in jail here.
 About two weeks before the trial of McAllister jail delivery was frustra- ted by Chief Deputy McDougal, who had been apprised by McAllister that negroes in adjoining cell had saws with which they were making an attempt to escape. MT. Nc Dougal states that McAllister was not making an attempt to escape himself, but on the contrary informed him of the plan of the others to saw their way out.
 CRIMINAL DOCKET.