Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-12-13
WILL PROTEST AT
 MASS MEETING Residents of Lincoln County Will Ask Governor to
 Remedy Evil. WOMAN IS ATTACKED White "Tru>ty" Tried to kill NegrcSS Yesterday Near Douglass
 Invite Parllam.
WOMAN IS ATTACKED

The residents of the Douglass and l Warner ueighborhoods in Lincoln county arc to hold mass meeting Monday afternoon to protest against the loose manner in which life term CTS and other convicts on the state convict farm at Cummins are permit 1 ted to r'l, at large and commit viola tions of the law, killing persons and l endangernc the lives of others Dis trict Attorney T. G. Parham, of this city, has been invited to be present and it is expected that Governor Hays will be appealed to to remedy conditions.
 The recent brutal murder of Aunt | iMelvina' Hatten, an aged negro woman, near Douglass, by Fred Pel- ton, a negro "trusty" from the State Farm who is serving 115 years for murder, the convict cutting the woman's throat from ear to ear and then throwing her body in ravine, after robiing it of $16, was followed yesterday by another near tragedy in which Tom Allen, white ''trusty'' made an assault on Mary Faucett, a peaceable negro woman who lives the R. R. Rice plantation at Warner. Had it not been for the prompt ar rival of negro foreman on the Rice plantation, who heard the screams | of the woman, another murder might | have been recorded within stones | throw of the state farm walls and by an inmate of the state prison.
 The woman was at work in her home when Allen, under the lnflu- ence of liquor, knocked on her door. She looked out, but refused to admit him. AlIen demanded admittance, but still the woman refused. He then kicked in the door and made for the negress like wild man. The wom- an, screaming at the top of her voice, ran through several rooms and was pursued irto the field by Allen. A negro foreman, at work in a field nearby, went to her assistance and with a club drove Allen from the place.
 Later Alien was captured and re- turned to the state farm under guard. The mater will be re1or.ed to Warden McCook and it is most likely that he will be requested to keep the .trusties within the walls of the state farm hereafter.
 Two months ago negro woman was murdered by convict in cap;n on the Wiley place, near the state farm. Her body was found by her husband on the floor of her room with her hand lying in the fire of fireplace. The woman's husband moved ,er and then summoned a physician. thinking that she had tainted. When the doctor arrived it was found that the woman's skull had been crushed. She was dead. The murder mystery was never solv- ed, but negro "trusy" from the state farm had been seen in that neishbornood during the afternoon with a shotgun hunting ducks.
 Residents of the state farm sec ton of Lincoln county are up in arms against the state farm officials. They say that it is a common occurrence for the convicts. many of them life termers, to be turned loose to roam at will, as ''trusties," and that: they imbibe liquor freely at saloons at Warner and frequently create distur- bances to the annoyance and un- easiness of the white residents as we'll as the blacks. In recent weeks negro convicts have demanded chickens frcm negro tenants on farms in that locality, but after being re- fused. they would shoot the chickens and then take them to the state farm