Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-02-10
Ben Young, Held Up Sun day Eve, Badly Wounded
 on Main Street Car.
HOTLY PURSUED, NEGRO DISAPPEARS
Ore White Man and Three Negroes on Gar at Time Also Disappear After Conductor Is Cut Through Lung
 for Refusing to Be Held Up.

Pen Young. aged 24 years. con- ductor on the Main street Cemetery line of the street car system, receiv- ed a stab wound >wh5ch is considered
 identified negro, about s o'clock last night. and lies in critical condition at the Clark sanitarium.
 The blade of the knife entered the left breast, below the heart and penetrated the lung. Should there be no complications, Young has good chance to recover, but his condition is considered very dangerous by the attending physicians.
 The negro escaped, and Is known to have traveled south on the Main street pike after circling west and south through that part of he city, following his leap from the car in which the stabbing was done, at Sev- enteenth and Main streets. The negro passed the Steed store, and was seen western part of the city, always bare headed and always running, finally being traced through pasture and into the pike, where trace Of him was lost.
 Witnesses Disappear.
 A. the time of the assault on the conductor, there were three other negroes fand one white man in the car, but none of them knew of the assault until it had occurred. The motorman, B. O'Neal also knew nothing until Young had been stab- bed, and before he could stop the car. the negro had broken open tho door and leaped from the car The other passengers, in the excitement, also scattered and disappeared. Young was rushed to the Clark sanitarium in the Holderness ambu- lance, and after he had been given surgical treatment, made state menr of the affair to the police and to Minor Woodward, of the Pire Bluff company Tn brief, he stated: YOung's Statement.
 "The negro with two others board ed my car at Fourth, one of them giving me 5-cent piece, one a half dollar and the third a dollar. i made the change, and then flagged the car oyer the crossing. Several blocks farther down Main street the negro who gave me the nickel de- manded 95 cents change, and I told him he had no change coming to him. He had an open knife in his haAd, and cursed me while. Finally ordered him to cease, whereupon he stabbed me. He had stepped to the platform at Fifteenth street. Just after passenger had alighted form the car. and did not know he in- tended to stab me until I was wounded
 Young staggered toward the front of the car, and MOtorman O'Neal noticed him. Young exclaimed, i've been stabbed and O,Neal immediate ly started to stap the car. The negro did not know. how to open the car door, and broke it open, leaping into the street. Motorman O'Neal helped Conductor Young into the Steed grocery, where the telephone was used to summon the ambulance ana the officers.
 Negro Loses His Hat
 Night Chief of Police Fiveash and Constable Clint Green were both in- formed of the affair and each parti- cipated in the search of the negro. The negro's hat is held by the police, and may help convict him, if he is captured.
 The car was taken off duty and another car substituted, because of the damage done when the negro broke the platform door. Conductor Simpson was placed on the run with Motorman OtNeai and service was not interrupted. Claim Agent Wood ward of the Pine Bluff company aids. ed the officials in their search. Excitement Was Intense. The affair occurred about o'clock, and within ten minutes a dozen or more automobiles, each with its quota Iof men, were on the scene. There was great excitement, and several of the aut tomobile parties assisted in iCootinned on page fivel