Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-18
TYTON'S BULLET
 PROVES FATAL
LOUIS GAMMILL, WHO WAS BRUT- ALLY ATTACKED BY NEGRO.
 DIED YESTERDAY
MURDERER AT LARGE
Big Reward Offered For His Capture -Dead Man Was Popular and
 Valued Employe of Lumber Co.

After lingering at deaths door in the Davis Hospital here since Thurs day morning, suffering from a gun shot wound in his body, Louis Gam mill, 2S, for ten years an employe of the Sawyer & Austin Lumber Com pany in this city, died yesterday af- ternoon at o'clock. Skilled phys lclans have done everything possible for the young man since his murder ous attack, but the dangerous wound of the bullet which entered his back, penetrating one lung, proved fatal His assailant, Arthur Peyton, ne- gro, 30, is still at large with a re- ward of $35O for his capture, dead or alive. Up to this time he has evaded posses of men with bloodh Cunds which have secured Jefferson, Lin coin and Grant counties.
 The scene of the crime was at the logging camp of the Sawyer & Aus tin Lumber Company, located west of the city and about five miles from Sheridan, Grant county. The shoot ing teok place at 7:30 o'clock Thurs day morning while Mir. Gammill was in the commissary of the camp, alone. It is alleged that Peyton entered the store and began to raise a row over his ''time.'' Mr. Gammill is said to have told him to leave the store as he did not want to have any trouble. Upon receiving this reply the negro is alleged to have pulled an auto matic revolver, 44-calibre, from his pocket and began firing at the young man. MT. Gammill ducked beneath the counter to dodge the shots ana Pevton climed to the besk and upon his knees bent over and placing the revolver on the young mans bacK, fired one shot, the only one to take effect Mir. Gammill dropped to the floor after which the negro fired two more shots both going wild. He then fled and nothing has been seen ot hlm since. MT. Gammill was brought to the Davis Hospital in this city on snecial train of the Lumber Com nany's road. Posses were lmmeolate- lv organized and began a rigid search e., +l,, hlaok doSOpraQO.
 It was reported in this city yestef~ day that Peyton, the negro murdefer' has been concealed by his brother on the Murphy plantation at Fairfield. It is said that the negro's brother warn ed officers that they would have to take him before they got his brother.
 Two crimes now lay at the door of this desperado as the negroes of this section of the state are making every effort to catch him to make him an- swer to a charge of assault which ne is alleged to have committed upon negro woman, Mary Bevin, on the Creed Taylor, place near this city sev- eral days ago. The negro is consfd- cred one of the most dangerous Ill this section and has troubled the of- ficers before.
 MT. Gammill's brother, J. F. Gam mill Jr., and his father, J. F. Gam mill, both of Millville, which is also the former home of the deceased were in the city yesterday to attend the young man. They were ~accom- panied by the young mans sister Miss Gammill. The deceased's pro- finer has been here since the day fol- lowing the shooting.
 The body was prepared for burial here last night and shipped this morn- ing at o'clock from Robinson's chap- ell to Millville, where interment VIII ho made The young mans father IS a we'll known merchant of Millvlile' | When MT. Gammill's condition showed no improvement yesterday the reward offered for the negro canture was increased. It now stands as follows: s1Oo each from the saw war & Austin Lumber Company, the emplcyes of the company ana J. '"
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