The Forrest City times., 1911-09-22
BRAVE MAN KILLED
F. T. Carroll, Depot Agent at Caldwell. Shot to Death by Desperate
 Negro Criminal.


 officers were not1hed last Friday night that Station Agent F.. T. Car roll, of the Iron Mountain railroad, at Caldwell, q small station about six miles north of here. had been shot while serving with posse who had been deputized by Deputy Sheriff Cliff Brown, to arrest negro criminal named Joe Cantrill, from Cross coun- ty, who was wanted for a shooting in that county near Earl. last Spring.
 It seems that Cantrill had come to the house of Willie Thellman. negro ] farmer. who lives about a mile north west of Caldwell, Friday afternoon. to visit his wife, who is a sister of Thell- mans wife. The officer got wind that he was in the neighborhood, and depu- tized Carroll, Harvey Deyasier, ]. l.. Trimue and l.. L. Wisemore to assist him in making the arrest. They went i 10 Thellman's house and asked if Can trill was there. Thellman replied that he was not The officer then asked if he could come in and search the house, to which the negro replied, yes. calling upon the negro woman, Cantrill's wife, to dress and open the door, which she did. The posse then entered the room and began looking | for the negro. There were two beds in the room, and almost immediately Carroll announced that he saw the negro underneath one of the beds. At this Deyasler called on him to come out. He replied, "All right, I'm com ing; open the door, Instead of com ing out, however, he crawled from be- heath the bed, and got up behind the headboard, which was set at an angle across a corner of the room. The posse could see nothing of him then but an arm sticking out, and almost immediately the negro opened fire, which was returned by members of the posse. Carroll was within few feet of where the negro was baricaded behind the bed, and seem to have been plain target for the negro's weapon. He was shot six times, the negro using Colts automatic 32. He was struck once over the heart, once in the groin, and the other four bullets found Judgement lower down along his limbs. It is believed the first shot paralyZed him, as he remained almost in the same spot and did not attempt to get out of the way of the negro's bullets.
 The posse returned the negro's fire, but as he was behind the bed they had to shoot at him throughthe head board and in the dark, except by the | light of his gun flash. Two bullets found mark in him, one breaking the middle finger of his right hand and breaking the butt of his pistol, and the other lodging in his bowels just above the groin. The negro hay ing emptied his gun made a break for the open door, and got away He was dressed only in shirt. Carroll sank eO tilc HUI diii uicu III u lSH lultS, after which the officers here were quickly notified
 Deputy Sheriff Franks, with the county hounds, went to the scene, but on account of the darkness and for other reasons, did not turn his dogs loose on the trail. The dogs did, how ever, trail for distance in the direc- tion the negro took. Coroner Todd held an inquest over the body of Car roll, and rendered verdict in accor- dance with the facts
 Saturday morning the body of Can trill was found about three hundred yards from the house in which the kill ing of Carroll took place. He was lay ing on his back in d thicket just lit tie distance from the road and had evidently been dead couple of hours. The coroner held an inquest over the remains, and the jury returned yer dict stating that he came to his death from gunshot wound, received while resisting arrest
 Carroll was brought to this city on
 Friday night, and the body prepared for burial and shipped to his home il l Eldorado, Ark
 Thelman is in jail waiting the ac tion of the grand jnry, charged witt being an accessory before the fact Does Not Irritate. Il have found Simmons Liver Puri