Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-06
John Williams Strung Up and Body Riddled For
 Murder.
OFFICERS OUTWITTED
Had Spirited Negro Away But Mob Found IIim---YOmng Man Kill.
 ed at Negro Picnic.

Plummerville, July 5.-As the sequel to the dastardly murder of young Paul Nisler of this city last afternoon, John / Williams, the murderer, was takQ from the officers about 10 o'clock lasS, night and strung up to a tree a short distance north of tine public school building here. After he was hanged his body was riddled with bullets by the enraged crowd
 Williams, who was regarded as a vicious sort of negro, was attending a negro picnic at Menifee yesterday, a few miles south of this city Word came to the local officers that the negroes were engaging in a general LOW at the picnic grounds, and call was asked for help to restore order. Sheriff c. J.. Taylor and Constable j. M. Johnston deputized several addi- for Menifee. Among those daputized was young Nisler, Fl years old, and 9 clerk by occupation. He had resided here with his parents and was one 0. the most highly respected young men
 n ths community.
 When they reached tine picnic grounds some one pointed out the negro John Williams as one of those responsible for the fighting. Nisler and other officers started to arrest him. when hsgpnlleda a ~revolvers. and fired. The buldleet struck Nisler in the head, killingteeim almost instantly. Williams fled but Sheriff Taylor over- took him and put him Under arrest, after wounding him once or twice. t
 Williams was brought to Plummer- yille, but efforts were made by the of ficers to conceal his whereaboutsp He was hidden in the woods north of the schoolhouse, the intention being to take him to Morrilton in a buggy later in the night after the town had 1uieted down.
 Officers Oyerpowered. This effort was fruftless. however, as word was in some way conveyed to the .infuriated crowd. ofamen who leemed summary justice the right thing under the circumstances. The two officers in charge of Williams were suddenly faced with drawn re- volvers and were told to deliver up their prisoner. :. One officer was es- l was taken in the opposite direction 5y detachment of the determined men. The remainder of the crowd imme- diately proceeded to string the negro up to limb, and after the body clear ed the ground the dangling form was
 riddled with bullets.
 The lynching occurred about 10 or
 l0:15 o'clock last night. There was
 little demonstration by the men, who
 went about their work as systemati-
 cally as if the sentence of death had
 already been legally passed by court.
 The body was left hanging until the
 arrival of the coroner, who had it cut down and removed to local under
 taking shop, where jury was sum- moned to view it.
 The body of young Nisler was view
 ed by the jury at the same time, the
 verdict in Nisler's case being that he
 had come to his death by gunshot at the hands of John Williams.
 In the case of the negro, the jury
 found that. he had come to his death
 by hanging and by bullet wounds at
 the hands of parties unknown to the
 members of the coroner's jury.
 The town is very quiet today, and it
 is thought there will be no further
 trouble relative to the affair.