The Sentinel=record., 1912-02-23

HOY SPRINGS, ARKANS s
 
 tender at Freemap's saloon had an swered the telephone cali just before the shooting Mack Freeman. who who killed, Was in the Freeman sa, lccn just before the shooting. The telephone call was to get Freeman to the phone, 1t is said, and the bartend. ed called Freeman, and Freeman went to the phone and talked a minute.
 A minute later he Gung up the re ceiver and said to a frlead something about Hale and Compton beng up at She house and wanting to have a talk with him, so he would go up, and Free man asked friend to go with him. The friend reluctantly accompanied him, and waited outside on the steps until he heard the shooting, and just after the shooting Sheriff Hale\ and Compton came out of the room
 Who telephcaed for Freeman will be investigated in the coroner's in- Quisition.
 Sheriff Hale made a statement of the affair shortly after locking Comp ton up, in which he stated that Comp ton came to him in the. morning to look into the matter, and that they went to the house. searcheN it, ar. rested Freeman. and returned\ En the afternoon, when Compton was to get his daughter to go home with him, Hale says he took the pistol from Compton in the morning and laid il on his desk, but that Compton must have gotten it back in some manner. Hale also stated that Compton was q deputy sheriff at the lnstigation Of good men in Pearcy. who signed a request that he be commissioned a deputy, but that he told Compton his deputyship was not good only in his home township nf.-Mazarn.
 Sheriff Hale made a statement last night in which he said that he had just turned his attention from both Compton and Freeman. and to the girl, when the shot was fired He said he had no idea that Compton was armed. After the shooting. according to Hale, Compton's arm with the Dis tol. dropped to his side, and Hale took the pistol in his left hand, and fed Compton with his right arm from the room, which accounted for his golng out the door with the pistol in hand He says his own pistol was never out, and that his left side coat pocket was sewed up, or he might have placed the Compton pistol in his pocket be- fore going out of the house
 Several about the city say that Compton has been a member of raid ing crews, and particularly was prom inent in the raid on the Texas club, led by Sheriff Hale, n which there came near being serious trouble some time ago. The report is that he was d tried and trusted officer under Sheriff Hale
 George Compton the~father, was ad, vlsed by his attorney, A. ]. Murphy, not to make any public statement. He no doubt believed fhat his daughter had fallen into wicked hands, and would meet ruin in the city, and was determined to take her back home, He stated to the police before the tragedy that Freeman had been writ ing to the girl, and that they had talk ed or mai'Ying, but that he did not believe that Freeman would marry her.
 He thought when he came to the city that they might have married, and probably was informed they had, but he went to the countg clerks of flee and found that no license had 4s- sued there for their marriage. and then he believed more that his daugh- ter would be dealt, with in a ruinous maaner.
 The fatherly instinct which prompt ed his actions and his determination to restore the girl to her home, is about the only extenuatlng circum- stances brought prominently to light. Comptons having been armed, then hsa&ng the pistol turned over to sher- ff Hale. >as the latter claims. and then getting it back again, makes the tragedy appear in bad light. Free man was not armed, and had not signi- fled anything of physical encounter.
 The shooting revived the fact that a visitor was shot to- death on Chapel street. just near. this scene, ass the ushering kn of former season, an of ficer, too, doing that shooting. The officer was attempting to arrest the man, who resisted, and the man was killed The tragedy was heralded far and wide and attracted much general attention In the final issue of the case the officer was exonerated from any responsibility
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