Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-28
BRADBURY THINKS
 NEGRO CAN CLEAR
 MURDER MYSTERY

Little Rock. Dsc o1.-r. $. Brad bury, arrest d s'ln iav night following the assa ssinatio1 os P. c. .!er kins. Wcalthy planter n2as Sher.ill, and Will Martin, Ecs,"o emp,Gvc on the plantation, were locked in the Pulaski county jail here at 1 o'clock this morning by Sheriff R. ii. William > and Deputy Sheriff J. l.. McBurnett of Pine Bluff.
 Bradbury formerly WAS an empioye of the Southw stern SupD.y company and also worked fer T. l.. Cox o: lit tie Rock.
 He talked freely of the shooting when seen at the jail here. !!a says he is a machinist by trade, bat ha l worked at intervals for Jenkins since September. 1913
 'sNIartin Knows Something"
 q think this negro Martin kn1w something about the shooting" said Brad bury "A single-barrel shot gun given him by Jenkins a couple If weeks ago was used, and only on shot fired Jenkins was shot from the inside of the house, and the tin e was about 8 C'clock I had left hin about 20 minutes before. and he vas happy and cheerful. I was ge. ing ready to go to bed when I heard lhe shot. l ran to where he had fallen oa {. screened-in porch, where he llA1 gone to get water. I did not see or bear anyone. though. There are sev- eral ways the assassin could have escaped. It was just 9 moment or two until I was at Jenkins. and no one would have had a chance to rob him if that was the motive for the shooting. It wasn't mere than tive minutes before Dr. J. s. Gregg and his wife. who were passing the house, were there. I don't know what we would have done without them. Mrs. Jenkins was hysterical and had to have medical att :ntion.
 . "Were Best of Friends"
 "Jenkins and l were the best of friends, and had never had words. I want tC' work for him in September two years ago, and he got me to come pack the first Of this month when Mrs. Jenkins was very sick. I killed some hogs and did general work about the place. I was with T. L.. Cox and on the read for the South western Supply company while be- fore I went back there.
 ~ don't know of MT. Jenkins ever having any trouble, save when he had some negroes arrested a short time ago for stealing feed. One of them is m jail at Pine Bluff the other turned cut, believe This negro Will Mar tin was given the shotgun a couple Of weeks ago to use in watching some meat. There are about forty fanili of negroes on the plantation. MT. Jenkins owned 1,200 acres on which he raised cotton.
 No Time for Robbery.
 Right after the shooting Mrs. Jen- kins told me to find if any of MT. Jenkins money was gone. I have known him to carry several thousand dollars in his inside ccat pocket. No one could have had time to get any thing off him. liter he was shot, though for I was th9re in just few moments.
 q don't know what to think, but believe Martin knows son nething about the shooting. I don't know what to do; Pm waiting for develop ments. I asked Sheriff Williams to get bloodhounds. He said he expect cd to come back here, and l think ! will wait to see what comes up be- fore | try to do anything"
 Bradbury's home is in Virginia. He is 2S years old. He said his brother in-law is prosecuting attorney at Orange court house.
 slo far as he knows, Jenkins and his wife had never quarreled.