Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-11-27
..rerado Captured by Tssh Calibourn Without
 Firing Shot.
|.ucHT AT SUPPER
,. of Month Ends Near Mayflow-
 ,,.en RIount Meets Wife-Taken ,,ttle Rock fer Safe-keeping. wondered Thru Three States.

,,..,o Rock, Nov. 26.-Lee Blount
 a1sr nnsr'' of Deputy Sheriff Oscar L
 os oaea of Conway, October 22, was
 vau~ .1.od in the woods a quarter of a
 paut .ga from his home near Mayflower
 ', niles south of Conway, by Wasl
 ,,;hourn @ about g o'clock last night
 d1lD plo,,nt under guard of Calibourn
 .;.od pIo states Deputy Marshal c. o
 ,,va nrno and ex-Sheriff J. s. Johnson o1
 a, a,wav was brought to Little RccS
 rer m the Iron Mountain railroad al
 o.so o'clock this morning.
 V The prisoner was taken to police
 ,.douarters and held for few min
 tos @ and then taken immediately tc
 bs ' state penitentiary for safekeep-
 l1onnt's capture was the result of
 Dtin' to United States Deputy Mar |baI C. o. Payne yesterday. Payne
 nd calibourn had been working qui- tly m the case, Payne from the Lit |le Rock office and Calibourn from
 he Conway end. Payne got his tip rom a railroad fireman and notified falibourn, who effected the capture {;Sgle-handed while Blount was sit |ing on stump in the woods naer his home. He was eating supper, khich his wife had taken to him.
 Chase of a Month.
 The capture of the man follows one honth's search that had been direct ba by a score or more officers of the Etate and assisted in by all the au- |horities of Arkansas.
 Blount escaped from the Conway Gail on the night of Wednesday, Octo- Der 21. He was jailed for shooting a negro, whose teeth had been entirely cut out by shot from Blount's gun. Honea was shot while in pursuit of Blqunt and another prisoner. A pcssse of seven men, including Cali bourn, who effected the capture, got trace of Blount and surrounded him six miles west of IMayflower. Honea vas shot as he was taking his post about the thicket. Blount. it is ,harged, killed him instantly and oek the officers gun. He escaped in he woods with, the posse hot on his rail and has since been at large.
 Bl0unt talked freely this morning lnd seemed in no way to regret his ct While reports from Conway were to the effect that he had been urned over to local authorities by his rother-inlaw, officers who had him oday told an entirely different story.
 Blcunt said he reached home for he first time after the shooting of lonea Tuesday morning. He said c realized that he was being sought nd that he perhaps would be shot sight, so remained in his home ear Mayflower all day Tuesday and uesday night. He left before day Feak Wednesday morning and spent le night, according to his statement. the loft of an old building a mile ld quarter northeast of his home. g said he did not tell his folks nnere he hid. After dark, he left the ace and went to a point quarter mile from home in the woods, aere he managed to meet his wife, 10 was to bring him his supper af- r dark.
 . Through Three States.
 6lount's story of his wanderings as gwen in a straightforward way, Il officers are inclined to believe al' ne never got further away from ne , than Bonneville or perhaps Tex ., Goes to Texas. -
 T went through Bonneville and en on to Howell Junction and from ere to Texarkana," continued ount Then I went over to Pal lme, Tex. My stepmother and oth- ,l tolAs live in the country ten miles 'n there aand I went there and y. ssed three or four days and then 'at to another Texas town by the !. ae or Conroe or something like ~ l walked 13 or IA miles into country and stayed with my fath- | all night. I went from there to