Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-10
AYERS TILLMAN CASE AFFIDAVIT
 IS FRAUDULENT
A. c. Broadway Makes Statement and Affidavit in
 Tillman Case.

Charging that certain affidavit used in the Tillman case is fraudu- lent, A. C. BroadaWay has issued d statement which is being circulated by Cotton Belt employees. The state ment fellows:
 To the Employees and Officials Of the
 St. Louis Southwestern Rail way
 Company:
 Owing to the fact that my name has recently been twice brought into the controversy between the above rail- way company and one J. R. Tillman, a passenger conductor, who was dis charged from service something over a year ago. l regret that it has become necessary for me to have to make an affidavit refuting a certain purported affidavit in connection with this case. have been out of the service of this company for more than a year and it has been my desire to keep entirely out of their affairs, but ewing to the fact that the management of this company in hearing before the off Cials of the railway company at their general office in St. Louis recently saw fit to put into a certain circular under date of September 2nd. an affi- davit from a negro at JonesbOro con- corning former affidavit that he had made in connection with the Tillman case, which tends to indicate that the ignorance of the negro has been taken advantage of and in what purports to be an affidavit signed by one Jo- seph E. Curry on the 4th day of Sep tember. both of which circluars have been, circulated broadcast among the employees and the public, and which, to a considerable extent, reflects up7 on me, I feel that it is due myself and my friends to say that not only is the affidavit purporte dto be signed by the said Joseph E. Curry fraud and a. falsehood in so far as it refers to me, but the statement of the negro porter, Will Butler, which is publish ed in the circular above referred to, is a falsehCod If the management of this railroad company had desired to deal fairly with the men they would not have singled out this lone and ig norant negro and shipped him to St. Louis to have him make this import ant statement, when it is a fact well known to them that we went to their attorney, Mir. John Hawthorne, and his stenographer, the Assistant Cash fer of the Bank of JonesbCro, MT. Joe Little, Mir. T. w. Altman, a real es- tate man of Jonesboror, Dr. l.. F. Gracy, a prominent physician of JOnesboro, Mr. Henry KenWard. and other prominent and reliable citizens were present when this negro's tes- timony was given and if it had been their desire to deal fairly, as stated in the pamphlet, they would not have attempted to ram this so-called cor rected statement of Will Butler down the throats of their employees, with out any desire to give them the true facts as they existed at the time, and as was well known by each of the above named white men.
 (Signed A. C.~BROADAWAY.
 Affidavit.
 State of Ar kansas, County of Craig
 head, SS.
 l, A. C. Broadaway, state that I re- side at Jonesboro, Arkansas. Refer ring to a certain paper which pur- ports to be an offidavit signed by Jo- seph E. Curry and acknowledged be- fore l.. F. Hunt, Notary Public, under date of September 4, 1914. and adressed to the trainmen, yardmen, and enginemen of the St. Louis South western Railway company, I have carefully noted the contents of the above article, and with reference to the sixth clause of said affidavit, say that the same is in whole false in ev- cry detail. I never did, at any time, make any statement to the said Jo- seph' E. Curry, or to any other person, indicating any such things as stated in said clause of said affidavit It has been my opinion since carly after the commencement of that proceeding that no such thing was true. There has been no reason why would make