The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1911-05-04
MANHUNT ENDS In
NEGROES CAPTURE
VIII Williams Is Wounded ana
Taken In Custody BY Joe Breed
love of Dumas-Jailed at
Pine Bluff

Pine Bluff, April 26.-Wlll VIII
Jams, the negro who has confessed
to killing Patrolman J. o. Miller IN
Little Rock last Sunday morning,
was brought TO Pine Bluff yesterday
morning by Deputy Sheriff Haw-
kins of Little Rock and Sheriff
Preston of Desha county and lodged
in the county Jail for safe keeping.
1t was said by officers who brought
the negro to Pine Bluff that he will
be moved again in a short time to
prevent any possible danger OF
lynching.
After a man hunt of day and a
night in the swamps of Desha and
Lincoln counties, in which 800
armed men took part, Williams was
arrested shortly after 10 o'clock
this morning after being wounded
by charge of buekshot fired by
Joe Breedlove of Dumas, Ark.
Mr.. Breedlove and DR.. Glenn lsom,
also of Dumas, had ridden over the
swamp roads nearly all night IN
the neighborhood of Tyro. They
stopped to rest and feed their
horses this morning at Tyro. Short
~ after Williams appeared and
asked the direction and in
formation regarding the road to
Monticello of negro. The negro
in warning the fugitive that his
pursuers were inside blacksmith
shop attracted the attention of Mr..
Rreedlove and Or. Isom, but before
they could get out Williams had
taken to the swamps at the side OF
| the road. The pursuers separated,
Dr.. Isom going back around the
deep part of the swamp while Mr..
BreedlOye stood watch on a little
road leading into the road to Month
cello. When the negro attempted
TO get out Of the swamp Mr.
Breedlove challenged him. Will
liams showed fight, drew his re-
volver and lodged behind some
bushes but he was not in pistol
shot of Mr.. Breedlove. When he
lifted his shotgun to his shoulder
the negro attempted to reenter the
swamp and was shot in the back,
three of the shot entering his
shoulders. He ran about 200 yards
and surrendered.
When the officers of the posse
came up Williams was turned
over to them and the word of the
arrest was sent out through all of
the swamp roads to the other hunt
ers. The negro was hurried to Du-
mas where he was put on a pas
senger train and brought to this
city.
Williams said yesterday that
after taking the night train from
Little Rock to Reedville he walked
from Reedyille to his fathers home
at Mills and there dressed the wound
in the calf of his leg, where Patrol
man Browns bullet ploughed
through.
DR.. w. H. Blaekenship was called
TO the county Jail this afternoon to
dress the negro's injuries. He re-
ported the wound in the Negroes back
W Dt VI ScilouS lldbuFt, DIS IL II
thought that some of he shot en-
tered the kidneys. The wound on
his leg is not thought to be serious
unless complications set in from his
exposure in the swamps while in
hiding.
Williams refused to talk a great
deal this afternoon and complained
of the pain in both the wounds in
his back and in his leg. He said
that after he left his fathers cabin
yesterday afternoon he went into
the swamps and slept on the ground.
This the sentinels along the road
deny. They say that the man
was assisted by his father to his
grandmother's home southeast of
Dumas and there he spent the night
and was taken on to Tyro in an
effort to get to Monticello early this
Williams admits killing Miller. |
but he claims that he did not draw |
his gun until after Miller had fired |
two shots at him. The Little Rock |
officers say that Miller's revolver |
was in his pocket when the body |
was picked up, and that the entire |
chamber was filled.