Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-03-26
THIS A BADLY
 MIXED AFFAIR Police Have Stolen Proper ty and Township Officers
 Have Prisoner
BRANsON sCOOPED FEM
Policeman Boyd Followed "Wiid Goose Chase On Train and De-
 putty Stole Prisoner.


 Both the police and township offi- cers are now hard at work, on d case, in which negro man, ne- gro woman, some clothing and a pair of shoes stolen at Alexander Bros, store, Fourth and Pine street and they are working some, too
 number of other articles, the own- CT of which is unknown, are involv- ed The officers of the city and the township are both making every eff fort to catch the guilty parties and it is expected that lively race will result. Both have clues to work on and hey are working some, too.
 A negro woman, giving her name as Willie Banks, and her residence as Drew Whites plantation at Fairfield. is now in the county Jail and the township officers have suspicion that this woman is in some way con- nected with the thefts, and that she can also tell the whereabouts of the negro man so badly wanted.
 Anyway, the police have securely in their possession two overall jump CTS, two pairs of pants and two five pound cases of Bull Durham smoking tobacco. The "Hockshaw'' of the police department says that he is sure that the smoking tobacco be- longs to a man and because the pants are not cut "Harem" he is cer- tain that woman did not steal them. The pants and over alls have been identified by Alexander Brothers as their property.
 This case had it's beginning yester- day afternoon when Patrolman Victor Boyd, of the Union Station beat, was called upon to arrest negro man all legged to have stolen the pants and a pair of shoes from the Alexander store, and also a dollar from the nes gro woman, Willie Banks. The wo- man told that the man had stolen the goods and that he had stolen dollar from her. She came to the station just as the Altheimer branch train was about to pull out. She was ac- companied by c. H. Ragon, clerk in the Alexander store. MT. Ragon had missed the shoes from his store and the woman had offered to point out the man. The negress and MT. Ragon secured the services of Patrolman Boyd and boarded the train to look for the man, who had also boarded the train. When they entered the car they did not find the man but found two cases of smoking tobacco bad ly worn suit case, containing the pants, overalls and pair of old shoes. The goods had been left in the care of another negro and he told the officer that the owner had left the train after boarding it. The negro woman had with her pair of pants and two lead pencils. Later it de- veloped that the woman could not ex- plain satisfactorily to the officers how she came to have the two pen cils and the pair of trousers
 Patrolman Boyd took possession of the suitcase and tobacco. He rode the train to the ravine, between Un- ion station and the shops, in an ef- fort to catch the man. but he did not again board the train. When Boyd returned to resume work on the case by questioning the negro woman who remained at the station he found that Deputy Constable w. A. Branson had quietly placed her under arrest in the name of the county and had spirited her away to Magistrate James A. Frazier's office. Patrolman Boyd re- turned to police headquarters and turned ever the goods that he had talk en from the train City Detective Dave Glover was dispatched out on the case to find the men
 At Magistrae Frazier's office Willie Ranks, the negro woman, was un- dergoing a heavy sweating process with Attorney Creed Caldwell. Dis trict Attorney T Havis Nixon, Magis- (Contfnued on Page FOurl