Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-05
DEEP MYSTERY IN CLIO MANS DEATH Duke Faulk Found Dead With Bullet Hole in
 His Head.
AT SORRELLS SWITCH
Spent Wednesday in Pine Bluff and Thought to Have Boarded Freight
 Train For Clio.

With bullet hole in his head and bruises as if caused by fall the iifeless body of Duke Faulk, 21 years old, of Clio Ark, was found lying within three feet of the Cotton Belt track near Sorrel's Swith, sevsn miles south of this city, by the crew of northbound Cotton Belt freight train about ? oclodk yesterday morn ing
 The train crew, several of whom knew Faulk, did nat make any investi- gation but after coming to the city notified the boys father, A. O. Faulk, also of Clio, who was at the Arling ton Hotel. The elder Faulk, accom- panied by Coroner H. E. Williams, who had also been notified, Deputy Constable w. D. Higginbotham, and an undertaken, went to Sorrells and brough. the body to this city where it was placed in H. I. Holderness and Company's morgue.
 Coroner Williams empanelled a jury but adjourned after ascertain ing the cause of young Faulk's death, which was to the effect that the young man had come to his death by gunshot wounds inflicted by an unidentified party. The inquest will bs resumed this afternoon at o'clock and it was stated that members of the train crew that found the body, several negroes who were in the vi- nifty and heard several shots and the crew of the souta-bound Cotton Belt train No. IT, which left here about o'clock Wednesday night, and upon which it is thought that Fulk boarded to go to his home at Clio, will be summoned to testify.
 Young Fulk and his father came to Pine Bluff Wednesday. The young man spent the day here but is thought to have boarded the freight train fer the purpose of returning home, as it was reported he told Officers Roe buck and Shults, of t1e police depart ment, that he would return home on that train.
 Consider able mystery surrounds the killing and the officers are at loss to find a motive.
 The bullet which caused the death of Faulk entered at the top of the head and lodged in the back, tending to show that the shot was fired from an elevation. As there is no house near the place where the body was found 1t is the general opinion of the authorities that the person firing the shot was on top of box car.
 A negro named Luckett was at Sor- rells when Coroner Williams and Dep uty Constable Higinboham went af- ter the body. Luckett told the off cers that he was walking d5wn the track when freight train. evidently train No. 1T, was going South. Sev- eral shots were fired and from the flashes he judged the bullets were coming in his direction from the top of the train. One or two more shots were fired, apparently at an object alongside of the train. The freight did not stop and he did not hear of Faulks death, it is stated, until after daylight.
 A theory generally agreed upon is that FauDk boarded the train here and became involved with one of the brakemen who inflicted the death wound
 At the Cotton Belt yard office the names of J. A. Johnson, J. w. Harper, J. l.. Hamilton and W. S. Smith were given as tine members of the crew of train No. 17. Corouer Williams stat ed that they would be summoned to testify at the inquest.
 District Attorney T. Havis Nixon is investigating the killing and sev- eral officers are assisting him.
 Faulk was formerly Ia brakeman on the Cotton Belt anil was known in Pine Bluff. For some time he had worked at the Triangla Lumber Cpm- pany at Clio. He is survived by his parents, two brothers. Brooks and Canaday. and two sisters. Annie and Stelma. all of whom :. we at Clio.