Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-04-26

Steil and ]. J. Hawkins, Constable
Dutch Jones, Deputy Constable Chas.
Jones, City Detective w. B. Potts and
Patrolman Brassfield. all of Little
Rock, and Constable Frank Stewart
and Patrolman Victor Boyd, of this
city. arrived at Dumas. They arrived
there at 1 o'clock yesterday morning,
but did not reach Mills in Lincoln
county until 4 a. m. because Of the
delay in securing horses at Dumas.
Sheriff W. D. Preston, of Desha coun-
ty, Joined the posse there. They tele-
phoned to the State Farm and Super
intendent McCook sent n bloodhound
to them. The dog got on the negro's
trail fifteen hours late, but the Off
GERS followed the animal for miles
through swamps' and fields, and ran
upon DR.. Isom and ]. H. Breedlove
with the murderer. They hap captured
him in a swamp near Mills early in
the morning.
Isom and Breedlove had been On the
negro's trail all night. They were
riding along the road when they spi-
ed the negro, darting from one side of
the road to the other. The negro
hid in a clump Of bushes and they
rode in on him, he ran from the
bushes and as he ran down the road
he pointed his revolver toward his
pursuers. AS he did so Breedlove
pulled the trigger of his shotgun and
Williams fell in the road badly wound
ed. His revolver dropped near him.
AS the men jumped from their horses
to capture the wounded man, Will
lfams made a desperate effort to re-
cover the weapon but his captors
were too quick for him. They hur-
ried the prisoner to Dumas and he
was brought to this city at SIS p. m.
and placed in the county Jail.
Owing to the large crowd at Union
Station Sheriff Brewster to avoid any
demonstration, had the officers rush
the negro into a carriage and accom-
panied by Deputy Sheriff R. H, Will
Hams, they took him safely to the
county Jail.
DR.. Bl%ankenship was called immedi-
ately to attend the wounded man. He
found that the pistol wound in the ne
gro's left leg was a painful but not a
serious one. His left side is badly
.lacerated from buckshot, and he has a
large hole in the small of his back.
The latter wound, DR.. Blankenship
says, is the one that may prove seri-
GUS. Williams was provided with a
cot and although suffering great pain,
he seemed to be resting well last
night.
Williams says he spent an hour in
Pine Bluff Sunday morning after the
tragedy. He says he made his es-
cape from Little Rock on a freight
train and after taking breakfast here
Sunday morning, walked to Tamo,
where he caught the s%outhbound pas
senger for Dumas. After arriving
there he went to his fathers home
near Mills. where he changed his
bloody underwear. Soon he learned
that a posse of citizens were coming
his way and he ''beat it, into a lei
by swamps. He say she was trying
to make his way into Louisiana when
captured. The officers did not know
that he had been wounded by the Lit
tie Rock policeman until they found
the blood stained underwear.
Williams says he did not know that
he wal shooting at a policeman when
he fired the fatal shot that killed
Patrolman Miller. He had called on
a negro woman, he says, and another
negro came into their room and up
braided him for his attentions to the
woman. They had a few words and
the other negro, Williams says, left
the servants house and, he supposed,
for the police. Williams
says a short while afterwards there
was a knock on the front door and
when the woman was on her way to
open 1t he went towards the rear
door. AS he neared it someone
knocked on the real door and de-
manded: Come out of there, pard-
ner.9 Williams declares That two
shots were fired at him through some
lattice work, before he fired. He
then ran out into the yard and was
shot In the leg as he ran. He de-
clares that he thought he was shoot
ing at the negro with whom he had
the argument.
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