Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-08

i among strangers, surrounded alona by negroes, a great many of whom were self confessed assassins. and had taken part in one of the most atrocious murders that has happened in Dasha county in it's history. MT. l Taylor made an eloquent appeal for his client and said that had he wanted to escape the scene of his crime, had he comm tied one, he had every opportunity to do so before he was arrested. Since the only pur- pose of denying him bail would be to guarantee his presence at the trial, he said, and be1ievefng that the court felt certain that in grant ing him bail he would be there, he committed him to the courts charge earnestly believing that bail would be , fixed for him in some amount es- pecially since great many of the citizens of Little Rock had testified to his former good character.
 Rhea Breaks Down.
 l Upon being returned to this city last night and again placed in the ! Jefferson county jail, ". S. Rhea, charged with murder, yesterday de- nied bail by Chancellor Martineau at Little Rock, broke down and cried like a baby. He was brought to Pine Bluff oyer the Cotton Belt by Deputy Sheriff R. H. Williams, who request ed Deputy Sheriff J. J. Hawkins, of L tile Rock, to accompany them. Rhea was handcuffed when taken from the Little Rock jail, and the irons remained on him until he en- tered his cell in the county jail here, He cried pitifully upon being re- turned to the Pulaski county jal from the Little Rock court room, and again broke down and cried when the iron doors closed on him in the county jail at this place last night. Rhsa did not speak one word to the officers while en route to Pine Bluff on the train He $ dowwncast and blue. S. w. Harrison, his uncle who lives at Kedron, Ark, and who at tended the hearing in Little Rock, came to Pine Bluff on the same train with the prisoner and left early this morning for his home.
 After Grant Sanders.
 When Sheriff w. D. Preston, of Desha county, Lift Little Rock Thursday night with Grant Sanders and several others negroes who are charged with the murder of Archard, to take them back to the Arkansas City jail, he escaped being served with citation from the circuit judge of Saline county, di- rect;ng him to appear in his court at Benton with Sanders and show cause why he is holding Sanders in his county, when Sanders was arrest ed on warrant from Saline county, where the crime with which he is charged, was committed.
 Sheriff Cox. of Saline county, ar rived m Little Rock that evening with the papers, but Sheriff Preston had boarded an Iron Mountain train with his prisoners and was on his way to Arkansas City. The officers of Saline county are said to be anX- ous to get possession of Sanders, who has no connection with the murder of Archard in Desha county, other than he was his prisoner at the time Archard was killed. Sanders trial is soon to be called at Benton. The jail at Benton is said to be in bad condition and the attorneys who are prosecuting Rhea object to his in- carcerat'o on there. They realize that Sanders is a most valuable witness for the state.
 Sanders is said to be physical wreck He expects his death at any minute, believing that he will be lynched if taken back to Saline coun- ty or that he will be killed by friends of Rhea. Ha told the officers in Lit- tie Rock Thursday, when he broke down from fright, that he had bsen thr ,atened so often and had Ire rope around his neck so many