Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-29
ATTORNEY" LONG FROM TRAIN Gave McNeill Slip and Pinned Note on Officers
 Coat Before Leaving. WERE AT STUTTGART Prisoner Was Being Brought Back l Here To Answer Embezxle
 Charge.
WERE AT STUTTGART

AVlOIncy l. r. Long, aFFeStcQ aJ Charlotte, N. C.. ten days ago on warrant from this city, charging him with embezzlement, for which an in dictment has been returned by the Jefferson county grand jury, escaped from Constable A. F. McNeill. of Red field, at Stuttgart early yesterday morning, while being brought back to this city for trial. Officers in near by towns are on the lookout for him and it is thought that he will be re- captured before he gets out of the state
 Long pinned note on McNeill's coat before leaving the train. which read: Dear MT. Mac-I will meet you in Pine Bluff tomorrow night. have gone to make arrangements for my bond" The note was signed Long"
 Constable McNeill had fallen asleep and it was while the officer was doz- ing in the chair car that the train stopped at Stuttgart and Long made his getaway McNeill did not discover Longs absence until he had reached the Cotton Belt shops in zine Bluff and then he left the traip and took freight train back to Stuttgart in an effort to recapture his prisoner. The train was delayed at Altheimer and believing that Long had gone in the direction of Little Rock, where he has a friend who might aid him, McNeill took the morning Cotton Belt branch train to that city and spent yesterday there on a search for the former Pine l Bluff lawyer. who misappropriated more than $100 from a negro client fin thisi city some months ago, resulting in his indictment sg2s
 When he awoke and found his man missing, Constable McNeill telephon- ed Sheriff Brewster, informed him Ot the disappearance of Long and told him that he would go back and try to capture the North Carolina fugitive Sheriff Brewster immeditely tele- phoned officers at Stuttgart, Brinkley Clarendon and other towns and asked them to notify officers in neighboring towns at his expense. He is determin- ed to recapture Long and McNeill says that he will land him in jail if it is the last thing he does in life.
 When he escaped Long wore wine colored suit, straw hat and black shoes. He is about 36 years old
 weighs 160 or 165 pounds, is , feet s or inches tall has two gold teeth in front of upper jaw. and had sever al days growth of beard.
 When Constable McNeill. who was named by Governor Hays at the re- quest of Sheriff Brewster as a state messenger to go to North Carolina for Long, left Pine Bluff he was furnished with fine pair of handcuffs. with a small chain attachment. used to chain a prisoner to the officer in charge
 He informed Sheriff Brewster and a Graphic representative that he intend ed to handcuff Long during the trip. Although Mir. McNeill has made no detailed statement of the affair. it is supposed that Long induced him to leave the cuffs off and promised him that he would not attempt to escape. Mir. McNeill it is said. took the cuffs off Long to enable him to go to the toilet in the car. and that while he was there. the officer fell asleep.
 Long at first refused to come back to Arkansas without requisition pa pers. but finally yielded, when Cover nor Hays requisition was nonored by the governor of that state. The trip from Charlotte was made without in- cident and the escape of Long was a complete surprise to local officers.
 Sheriff Brewster is sending out cards to all the officers in towns over this and neighboring states and he believes that Long will be taken again.