Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-05-16

to make no statements for publica- tion.
 Grant Sanders, the negro who had been arrested by Constable Archard, and who was freed by the mob of ne- groes when the officer was killed, was recaptured yesterday and with the other negroes has been taken to Arkansas City for safe keeping. Rhea l is prominently connected at Little most popular officers of Saline coun- ty. He was member lof the Wood men, Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges. His funeral took place at Farrell yesterday under the auspices of the Masons
 Story of the Tragedy.
 Special to the Graphic:
 Dumas, Ark, May 15.-R V. Arch ard, a white constable from Farrell, Ark, was brutally killed by mob of negroes headed by a white man, near Pendleton Saturday about eight o'clock.
 Archard in company with "a negro had come to the Lenox place for the purpose of taking back to jail col- ored man, Grant Sanders, who had shot a man near Farrell, his victim having in the meantime died, Sanders was required to be locked up and the officer brought one of his bondsmen along with him. On arriving at Le- nox place. Manager w. s. Rhea, who represents the lessee, J. Russell Mill Ter, wanted to keep Sanders and of fered to make his bond. This the officer refused, and they took San ders and started back to Dumas.
 The rest of the story was told by Sanders and his friend when they reached Dumas about midnight in terribly. agitated condition In sub- stance they stated, that they were about to leave the Blakemore place i through what is known as the Back Gate,' mob of drunken negroes, headed by white man came along, mounted and in hot pursuit, opening fire on them the two colored men took to the woods, and hurried toward Du- mas as fast as they could, too fright ened to learn the fate of the officer. i Upon their arrival at Dumas after learning their story, Stephen J. Smith 1 a friend of Archard, who had lived at Farrell, accompanied by K. s. Cul- pepper, secured a hack and started for Pendleton. After driving through i Back Gate for a distance of about one hundred yards, they found Ar chard lying on his face in the middle of the road, and he stated that he had lain there ever since eight o'clock, without succor of any kind.
 1 He was shot in the left shoulder also in the back by a pistol ball, the former being a charge of shot from shotgun. He was bruised and beat , en all over. They cared for him as well as they could and by easy stages reached Dumas at z a. m. Sum- day morning. The officer, was talk en to the office of Dr. A. Isom and his wounds dressed by Drs. lsom and White, but he lived only about an hour, but long enough to state that the white man who headed the mob was w. s. Rhea, manager of Lenox i plantation.
 A posse left at once for Pendleton, determined upon doing their very best to apprehend the members of the mob. Little is known of Rhea here, beyond that MT. Miller brought him from Little Rock last fall, and deceased is not known here except by Mir. Smith, who states that he is we'll thought of in Farrell, where ne has resided some time. The entire community is wrought up with this bruta, attack, and if Rhea is appre- hended, the officers will have to be careful for his welfare.