Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-04
picture Theft
STIRS ATTACHES
Framed Likeness of Gov.
Donaghey Taken from
Legislative Hall
WAS A DARING THEFT
Search Since Tuesday Has FaIIed to
Restore Picture or Lead to the
Identity Of LOOters
WAS A DARING THEFT

Little Rock, Dec. 3-Consternatl' il
reigns among the employees of che
new Sta-e Capitol.
The handsome painting of ex Gov
ernor George Washington Donaghey,
which ad.1 ned the wall in the House
of Representatives Immediately in tie
rear of the speaers' desk, has been
stolen.
So far the theft or thieves have no.
been discovered.
The theft of the picture has -sir-
red the employees of the State Capitol
to action. Some time ago a strelo-
grapher III the State Board of Hea til
office was robbed of Sc. Then 9th i
things disappeared from tine various
offices around the State Capitol and
to make sure that no safe-blowilg
would be attempted by the plunder-
ors, Secretary of State Earle w.
Hodges had the doors of the big safe
in his office opened SO that anyone
could see that the safe contained
nothing.
Thousands of people visit the Capt.
toll in the course of week, some
timees as many as 500 day. With
out police system for the building
it is almost next to an impossibilily
to watch everyone who PASSES
through .te long corridors and offices
in the structure.
Halls Open to Visitors
The doors of the House Of Repre-
sentatives and the Senate hay. not
been locked. They have been left
open so that the country people
might get a view of the canctums in
which the laws of the State are madc.
During the past week no less than
5000 people have filed through the
building.
On Saturday the picture of ex-
Governor Donaghey, with his smiling
countenanoe, adorned the hall OF the.
House Of Representatives. Tuesday
afternoon, Renton Tunnaht .ustodi2n
Of the building, discovered that eX-
Governor Doaaghey's smiling face
was among the absent in the meeting
room of the representatives.
Immediately the alarm was sound
ed and there was a hurrying an
scurryiny to and fro. Every nook
| and corner in the Capitol was search
ed. 1t was impossible, so it is claim
ed, for anyone to have carried pic
ture the size of that of Governor
Donaghey from the building.
No Trace Of Picture
| Still the search, which extended III
to the basement and into every f'ool
of the building, failed to locate til,
picture. Then the word was given
out that it had disappeared fr,M ,he
building. The work was done quiet
ly, as it was thought that the paint
ing was still in Little Rock and ef-
forts were made to secure /. before
it left the city.
Though all kinds of searches were
made the picture could not ba found
1t had vanished as ii by night. Some
of the Capitol officials claim that II
must have been removed by night.
i Renton Tunnah, custodian Of the
building, said wednesday morning
|"You wro.e up big story about the
robbery in the State Board OF Health
office, but that was o.E.ug COM
pared to this. Why, canios under
stand how the picture Of Governor
Donaghey was taken from the build
ing. 1t was there Saturday. Now
it is gone We have not Dcs1 able
to find IL
Member Of Capitol Commission
Ex-Governor Donaghey is one OF
the members of the STATE Capitol
Commissin. and the picture was pre-
sented to the State by the memaels
of the He use of Representatives OF
1911. 1t as hung with fit ,L1 core
monies in the House.
About three or four months ayo
there was great scare IN the State
Capitol about the state treasury.
Some molfy is kept there 1t was al
the time when the yeggs were blow
ing the hanks in several sections ot
the State Few, if any people III Lit
tie Rock or the State of Arkansas
knew that the state treasury was pro-
tected at the time as we'll as the
: United States Treasury. 1t is still