The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1915-01-07

Guilty and heard what was said. He
saw Stevens unbuttonng the front Of
the man when the man struck out at
him, and Stevens took his billie and
hit the prisoner, and the prisoner
struck him and knocked him down
and they clinched and fought He
saw the prisoner pick up a rock aud
later he said he thought the prisoner
had a big nail and might have been
striking az Stevens threat. He saw
Grant come up and hit the prisoner
with a gun. and Stevens got up, ana
then the young man got up. and then
the prisoner Knocked Stevens down
again AID was about to put Grant
down when the shooting took place.
He said the prisoner had hold OF
Grants pistol when it was fired. He
said the prisoner had a ball and chain
on when lie was killed
Fred Glidewen, Tom Carmody.
Charles Boswell, and Matt Anderson.
all drivers tor the city. testified prac
tically in substance that there had
been some trouble about making the
prisoners work, and that Stevens was
enforcing the rule requiring those
who did not work to take off their
coats when the trouble started.
Carmody said when Stevens made the
man take off the first coat, aad or
dered the other coat removed the
| man said 1t was cold and that he
would die before he would take the
| other coat off" He said the fight
begun, and that he heard Stevens call
| to Grant to come hit him or do
something" and that Grant came up.
Carmody had a shovel and was about
to try to separate the fighters when
he heard somebody cry, stand back,
and he did not proceed.
H. f. Cartwright, another driver.
testified that the man would not work
that morning, and was put on a stand
In a corner of the gravel pit Stevens
turned to him to unbutton his coat
and make him take it Off and they
| fought. Stevens turned and called to
Grant. Stevens ald the prisoner
were on The ground and Grant struck
| the prisoner in the head with pistol,
and then the man seemed daZed.
Later he said they were all up. ana
Stevens went to take the mans coat
off again, and the man knocked Ste
VEINS down, and he had grappled with
Grant when the pistol was fired. He
said the man had hold OF Grants arm
| when the gun was fired
| A few prisoners We're examined.
William Poetow. negro, said all
the men were sent to the gravel pit
and the dead man did not go. Stevens
told him to take off his coat, and the
man said it was too cold. They
fought His story is practically the
same as the other as to what hap
| peled later
Herbert Walters, another prisoner
told practically the same story.
Alex Windley another prisoner, re-
cited much the same i'm evidence.
JChn Anderson, a negro preacher"
prisoner, said the prisoner was about
TO take Grants gum from him when
he was shot
George Clark. one of the regular
prisoners, said that when the force
was coming from the jail 20 go to
! work the dead man had said he was
sick and could not work, He said the
man refused to pun off his coat aad
| answered it was too cold He was
asked by Attorney Mclaughlin if he
wasn't the man who the police had
| given a lot of trouble In recent years
and ne replied. no. The police had
not given him much trouble. He
might have given the police some
trouble. he admitted
Bill Stevens, the changing guard
came into the room with large ban.
| dages about his head. He said that
he had told the man to pun Off his
coat and stand in line, since he
wouldn't work He said that had been
| the custom for ten years. The man
had said he'd be damned if he would
| do it, Stevens then went TO ulbutton
| the coat to take ii off the man, and
the man struck him He said when
| the prisoner struck at him with his
right hand he also tried to reach
around and get his pistol with his left
| hand, and that they went TO the
ground together. He said the man
may have hit him with a rock, but
that he did not remember anything
else very we'll he had been so dazed
He said he was knocked senseless.
He said that he did not go to the
man the second time to ulbutton his
coat but later said he might have
done so as he was so dazed he did not
remember He said the man claimed
to be sick and unable to work, and
said he had rheumatism in his right
arm. but that he did not eat like he
was sick, nor did he fight like he was
sick. He said he did not force the
men to do hard work. but did insist
they should be at work doing some.
thing when they were sent out. re
said the evening before the man had
been. with five others, on a work
strike, and had demanded his coat,
and had cursed aim when he did not
get It.
Mon Grant, the defendant in the