The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-31

1t was a genuine hard lucstory ,n
 that w. R. Meyers. a youthf IT , years, told on the witness sd Tn
 circuit court yesterday. and thtory =. not only aroused sympathy slsieSi. dt for him to be relieved from further jail sentence, but from bystanders in the circuit court room he was given neat purse to help him get out of Hot Springs.
 Meyers was the youth who had an encounter with the authorities of the chain gang some time ago. and had his hand broken when he landed on Stevens one of the guards, with a l shovel
 According to the boy he had been a boilermaker's heiper in Denison Ohio, when the mills were closed down, and many were thrown out of work. He had a brother, mother ana sister. He went to Cleveland and Toledo. and found in both places the lake traffic had closed He went to Bloomington and other places, and found no work. and was headed for Texas, when, he says, at Benton, two fellows told him Hot Springs had fir lty-twO blocks burned out. and there might be work of general nature here. He came arriving Sunday, and had walked from Benton
 He said that he did not have any thing to eat and that night he crawled | into an alleyway on Valley street and was asleep when a policeman came along The officer told him he would arrest him. but would give him a warm bed, and that probably he would be turned loose in the mornins, | The next morning, according to tho | boys evidence. he was called into police court and there fined $l0 for | being a vagrant, and that he hesi- tated in moving back from before the prisoners dock and a policeman cried to him to sit down.
 Don't get excited I'll sit down. l the youth swore he told the police man, but for having thus spoken out in court, the judge took the sentence of $l0 back and fined him $25 for impertinence, he said.
 He said he was sent to the street gang to work and for loafing on the job was made to wear a ball and chain. He said that Stevens, the guard, he had hit with the shovel, caught him resting on his shovel again and told him he would beat | him. He said that Stevens picked up rock and that he lodged that, and | that Stevens then came up and struck him, and he dropped his shovel, but later picked it up and hit Stevens.
 Then he told that the other guard came up, pistol in hand, and said; 'T'n kill him" and that Stevens told him not to do it, and that they both beat him until a lady came up and told them they had better quit and send for an ambulance and a nurse, and the woman had them take the ball and chain from his legs,
 He said that when they took the ball and chain away and were aside talking. he got up and ran and had two shots fired at him. He went to lButterfeld and then was going to Benton, when he got on the wrong
 road and turned up in Malvern. His hand was hurting him where it had
 been injured by the beating and he went to a doctor to have it treated, and was caught there and returned. He said ,Drs. John S. Wood and Earl Sanders had found two broken and overlapped bones in his hand.
 | I E. Flemister, the road commis- sioner. told how he had made in' oury in the boys home town of him and the chief of police and mayor had given him recommendations for honesty and integrity and said he
 worked all the time there when there
 was work.
 Judge Thurston P. Farmer, serving
 voluntarily as counsel for the young man. asked the court to assess the lowest fine, and Deputy Prosecuting | Attorney A. B. Bedding, after investi-
 eating the case, consented. The low ! est fine was S5. Judge Graham as
 sessed that, but the boy did not have any money. so he was little better off. The fine was suspended by Judge James l.. Graham. presiding, and then attorneys and court attendants gath. ered ahout the young man and gave