Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-08-08
Cotton Belt Named as De- fendant in Action Insti-
 tuted Here.
DROPPED INTO RAVINE
Plaintiff Bases Action on Injuries, AL ieged to Have Been Suffered When He Stepped From q CabGOse
 Standing on Trestle.

Because of injuries to his spine, re sulting in neuritis, suffered when ht stepped from caboose while it wa on 1O-foot trestle at Altheimer on night in 1912, Thomas J. Collier yes terday filed suit against the Si LoYuis, Southwestern Railway com pany for $50,00O, claimed as damages
 At the time of the mishap, MT. Col Her was acting as manager of hi fathers plantation, near Altheimer but since then he has been unable tt perform any labor, requiring physi cal exertion, according to his peti tion. He returned several days ag' from Chicago, where he has been fo several months under treatment b, specialists, who have not held out, h says, great encouragement for tn Arrangement of his nervous systen due to the accident Mir. Collier con templated going to Europe to consul specialists there, but the outbreak war interfered with his plan. He vii probably return to Chicago in shor while.
 According ot the allegations con taiaed in the petition filed in th' circuit court here yesterday, MT. Col Her boarded freight train No. 16 a Pine Bluff on August s, 1912, to rid to Altheimer, paying the usual fare charged. He rode in the caboose and says that after some tune he Wal told by the conductor that the trai, had reached Altheimer and he should disembark. He walked out into tn. darkness, stepping from the car int space. As he fell 10 feet to th' ground, his foot struck a tie of tn trestle and he was hurled head frs his left hand and arm being injure' and the spinal. column wrenched. H planes the conductor for not inform ing him the caboose was On the tres tie, and expresses the fear that he i permanently crippled.
 FOreclOses Lien.
 J. '. Wcrthen was yesterda, awarded by Chancellor J. M. Elliot judgment for $629.6O against the Ar kansas Farm X Mortgage compan. and M. F. Sellecky of Little Rock neither offering any defense. Tn, court foreclosed a lien upon ant ordered sold the west half of tn, northeast quarter of section six township four. south range 0, ap pointing Circuit Clerk G. E. Lytle a commissioner. The property was some sold by Worthen to the com pany and by it transferred to Selleck
 The Divorce Record. Charles o. Gamble was granted divorce from Corinne Gamble on tn ground of desertion
 Suspects Held.
 J. l.. Blunt and w. F. Simmon, were arrested yesterday morning ant comimtted to jail by Justice of th' Peace Gabe Meyer ol the charge 0 grand larceny. The men arrived i, Pine Bluff from Pastoria Thursday a midnight on a skiff with the carcass of COW. The hide was sold te Biuthenthal on West Barraque street but the men were arrested before tn, meat could be disposed of The Of ficers are of the opinion that the GOV was stolen. and the men will be hel6 pending further investigation.
 Jim Lee, negro, was arrested yes terday afternoon by Deputy Coastabl, J. F. Bono on the charge of assault and battery and will be given : nearing this morning before Justic. J. A. Frazier. The negro is charged with having whipped his wife.
 In Police Court.
 The only defendant in police cour' yesterday morning was Little Patti 10, a negress. who was given fin, of $1o for disturbing the peace. She was charged with having "cussed out' R. H. Kieih, a collector.