Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-18
ELLIS TO FACE
 A SERIOUS CHARGE Street Car Conductor Taken Back to Russellville On
 Bootlegging Charge. PLEADS INNOCENCE
Was With Julian Harvey When He Was Killed in Cotton Belt
 Yards Here.

who has been in the employ of the Pine Bluff Company for the past hree months as street car con- ductor, was arrested at i o'clock yes- terday by City Detective Roebuck on warrant issued from the court of Ma gistrate l.. C. White. of Russell vile, charging him with bootleg ging'' whiskey. The authorities at Russelville located Ellis at this place by a letter which the accused had written to friends near that place. where he claims he was rear ed. Constable N. F. Burns, of Rus sellville, arrived here yesterday morning with the warrant and the local officials ascertained in short time that the man wanted was at work as conductor and it was only a few minutes until City Detective Roebuck boarded Ellis car and Plac- ed him under arrest He was brought to the city pail and locked up until 
 left for Russellville with him.
 Ellis stated to a Graphic reporter while behind the bars at the jail yesterday afternoon that he knew nothing of the charge on which he was arrested, but that he was will ling to go back and face any charge that was made against him. He said that he was born and reared about fifteen miles north of Russellvflle, and that he had lived in that city for short time. Constable Burns stated while here that there was no doubt of Ellis guilt and that he had been informed that an indictment had been returned against Ellis by the federal grand jury.
 Ellis, who has been in Pine Bluff about three months, has figured i'll at least one serious escapade, being the companion of Julian Harvey, the street car conductor who was killed at an early hour ill the morning about two weeks ago, in the Cotton Belt yards, and whose body was found lying beside the tracks with the head crushed. The coroner's jury at the investigation rendered a verdict that the deceased came to his death in being run over by freight car. but recommended that further investigation be had, as it was said at the time the body was found that Harvey had 60 cents ill his pockets while before the body was found he is said to have had $22.0O.
 At the investigation it was brought out that Ellis and Horace Bobbitt who was declared insane the first of the week and sent to the State Hos pital for Nervous Diseases, were with Harvey during the night, and that the party left the Cotton Belt Saloon on East Third street to go to the Cotton Belt eating house. near the shops, but that en route Bobbltt Ellis and Harvey begun playing
 by chasing each other around a box car ia the yards, at which time Harvey disappeared and was not seen by either again until after the body was found by a train crew the next mornin. Ellis tetified that he tried to persuade Harvey to return to his home in the western part ot the city, before starting to the eat ing house, but that Harvey refused to 90. When the body was found only SO cents ia change and a cheap watch was discovered. HarveN's re- iatives, not being satisfied with the verdict that their relative met death under the car wheels, employed At toruey T. Havis Nixon to make fur ther investigation, since which time the attorney has been quietly at work with the result that he has discover ed q man by the name of Mayfieid, an emppye of the Cotton Belt, who stated that Harvey and others in dulyed in a crap game during the night before Harvey's death and that the deceased won between S1O and $S0. as we'll as tracing Harvey from place to place during the night be- for his death in the early morning hourv. As far as can be learned FL lis and Bobbitt are the last men seen with Harvey, with the exception or the lunch counter man, who sold Harvey his breakfast just a short time before the body was found. ana who testified that Harvey had stated that he must hurry and get to uork S