Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-08
Three Men. Gordon Casteel, Jim Powers and Dan Kas-
 erauf, Under Arrest.
WAS SHOT IN A HOTEL
Mystery Surrounds Tragedy and Cor oner'S .Iur! Orders Men
 Held.

Forrest City, Nov. 7.@Lavert S Me Cain of Jonesboro, a prominent trav- cling salesman, Nas shot and almost instantly killed at 230 o'clock this moruinL at the Hotel Marion in this city. Whether by accident or other wise is nov being investigated by coroner jury, sitting in executive session.
 The case is tragic in the extreme and has much of mystery surrounding it. Three men are under arrest on suspicion of Complicity in the killing, one of these having back of him a prison record in connection with the death Of Hall Sanders, here 12 years ago. The men are Gordon Casteel, Jim Powers and Dan Kaserauf.
 Mccain comes of prominent fam fly, his father, Charles Mccain, being d director in the lIamilton-Brown Shoe Company of St. Louis. He has travelled this section of the state for a number of years as the representa- tive of New York hosiery and under wear house, and invariably put up a. the Hotel Marion.
 Last night, from the best account obtainable at this time, Mccain was looking for friend whom he suppos- ed to he stopping at the Marion. AS he passed the door of Casteel's room, Castee, it is said, invited him to come in and join in a drink with himself and the other two men, kaserauf and Powers. Mccain made his excuses, saying that he had to go down and write letter and also wanted to find his friend very much, but that he would later return and join them, probably bringing something along additional in the way of drinks.
 Returns to the Room. -- to have been made by one of the men in the room with Casteei. Mccain lat CT returned to the room and as he en- tered the door shot was fired, strik- ing him in the breast. He fell and died few minutes later, making no statement, so far as is known.
 Powers claims that he found gun on the floor soon after the shooting and picked it up. It was an automatic Ia ont informed an officer of what had hap pened, and subsequently all three of the men, Casteel, Powers and Kaser- auf, were locked up.
 The bullet which penetrated Nc Gains body was later found on the floor, having passed entirely through his body It was steel-jacketed.
 Just how the shooting really hap pened is conjecture, further than the above story indicates. The investiga- ton by the coroner's jury has been very rigid affair, and every possible clue is being probed. The dead mans brother will arrive some time today from Jonesboro to take charge of the body, which is at present at the Stephens undertaking parlors.
 Casteel Has Record.
 Gordon Casteel, one of the men under arrest, is said to have served sentence of four or five years in con- nection with the killing of Hall San- 'ders, which took place in this city lx years ago, on Christmas eve.
 Casteel Held For Murder.
 Forrest City, Nov. 7--Coroner,s jury returned verdict in which Cas- teel is charged with murder and Pow CTS and Kareauf with being accessor- ies before the fact. All are held to the grand jury and were remanded to jail.
 Vance was shot in game of craps in the Planters Hotel. Several men were in the room at the time and the bullet that killed Vance grazed anoth- er's head. The man who did the shooting is in jail, but he says 1t was accidental.