The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-30
A BLACK NEGRO
 SENT GIRL NOTE
WANTED CENTRAL AVENUE CLERK TO GO TO CALIFORNIA
 WITH HIM AT EARLY DATE.
Cooley Tells the Police He Meant Nothing Wrong When He Framed Beautiful Missive to an Unknown.
 White Girl.

Couched in beautifully appealing lan guage and offering the tempting nor sel Of business position which would prove very remuneratiye if she would ,crcmpany him to California. Frank Scott, black but highly edu eated negro yesterday afternoon made the second insult to young lady clerk at store on Central avenue that landed him behind the bars of the city jail. and who but for the fact that Hot Springs Is different from all oth- CT southern cities in its cosmopoli tan citizenship, might lead to his neck being broken from the end of a rope.
 Several days ago the negro, who was well dressed and highly educated, stepped into the store and handed the young lady a brief note of inquiry about a stenographer he wanted to emplay at a good salary. There was little about the note to convey the reason that the negro had oth- CT than honest motives, except it's bra zen effrontry. for it was no way to set about going to hire a stenogra pher. since the yorng lady was clerk
 The negro stated he would call again.
 Yesterday he stepped into the store and handed her a four page neatly written note It was elequently framed There was nothing vicious in the letter in so far as plain vul- garity was concerned, f.1d it's propos- al was weed as much as it was pos. sible for him to do so.
 The note opened by stating that the young lady had attracted him very much, so much in fact that he was glad he lad rot formerly employed a young stenographer who he had about e:::.i.lr'ea !le was glad fer ht. had seen this young lady, that he could give her the place. He wanted her to go to California with him, where the business could be handled.
 Further the negro interlined his note with words of flattery. and then again he stated that if she were not stenograrher, he had other positions of good pay which he could place her in.
 The note was signed XIX. lt stal ed that he would call the next day for the answer
 In Chief Leonard's presence Scott was found to be highly educated ne gfo, as the note implied He sim. ply stated he meant nothin wrcug ne said he came here from Vicksburg about Thanksgiving, and called the name of several prominent people In Vieksburg. He said something about his father once having been sheriff ol that county. and that he had been ed heated in Ohio
 About this time Chief Leonard was so disgusted with the negro's auda city that he ordered him sent to eel n the police station that he might more calmly reflect what he had done before further interrogation. The ne gro was sober, and the very outra- geousness of the act from one of his type was almost beyond understand ng. Often some ignorant thick head ed negro. reared almost beyond the pale of good judgement or understand. Ing. gets into such a plight but it i, seldom that ever one of the educa ted negroes is so brazen, even if he hai the same instincts and desires of tn, lower type.
 What can be done with the negrS is problem He is guilty of disturb ing the peace if the young lady ap pears against him. and may get a fin, of $500, or it might under some statue he extended to s1,O0O However Mayor Waters. Chief Leonard and the city adm'ristration generally will en deavor to carry him the route for the performance.