Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-08
mas Tucker, 25, Beaten Death at Pastoria Early
 Friday Night.
FO NEGRO MEN AND bNE WOMAN IN JAIL
lard Sellers, Suspected of Being |ro Who Crushed Fuckers Skull |th Iron Pipe, Eludes Officers After Long Chase.

omas Tucker, a white man 2a
 of age, was beaten to death
 piece of pipe, on the levee
 Bayliss' store at Pastcria, early
 hy night. Daisy Wilson, Clinton
 mas and Will Smith, negroes, are
 e Jefferson county jail on suspi-
 of being implicated in the mur-
 and officers are seeking Richard krs. another negro, who is sus-
 ed of being the one who wielded
 pipe with which Tucker was
 Id.
 Se murder of Tucker is believed
 hve been the result of a plot, the
 pirators being actuated by de-
 for revenge for a grievance, lined or real, the nature of which bt known to the officers.
 ktil recently Tucker had been en-
 ed at Cox's mill, but since he has
 idle he has been boarding with k Embry, manager of Bayliss
 Oman Bears Death Summons.
 $. Embry, Tucker and Sam Neal, egro, were seated on the porch he store Friday evening. when ker remarked that the negroes mas, Smith, Sellers and Daisy lon were down there" on the le- 1 A few minutes later, Daisy Will (eame up and said:
 dr. Tucker, Will Smith wants to |you on the levee." bcker arose and strolled off, go- toward the place where the ne- ks had congregated. This was the time he was seen alive by MT. Dry.
 esterday morning, when Mir. En- called Tucker for breakfast, (e was no response. When it YVES ld Fuckers bed had not been oc. led the previous night, a search him was instituted.
 bout 100 yards from the store, he base of the levee on the river , the body was found. The skull
 been crushed and fractured in Iral places, and the wide-open, Ing, but sightless eyes, glared as pgh the last thought of the victim )re being struck down was one fear at the realization that he to be foully murdered within 'hot of friends.
 Mute Evidence of Crime. food smeared on the grass from crown to the base of the levee, cated that Tucker had been first cked on the top of the embank- It, and that his body had rolled he bottom, where the murderers pleted their awful work. equity Sheriff J. w. Baldwin of toria was soon on the scene, be- joined shortly afterward by Dep Sheriff J. L. McBurnett, sent out Sheriff R. H. Williams, as soon as news reached here. The officers e not long in rounding up Daisy son, Clinton Thomas and Will tn, who were committed to jail justice of the Peace F. B. Mitchell Pastoria, who set Tuesday as the for giving the prisoners a pre- nary hearing.
 Sellers' Overalls Bloody. 'lchard Sellers was chased by uties McBurnett and Baldwin al- t to Plum Bayou, where, in the sness last night. he succeeded :u ng them the slip. The pursuit
 De resumed early this morning, II Is believed that the negro will m custory before night. At Sell
 nome the officers found overalls nglng to the suspect. These were 'tcned with blood. and when Sel-
 lied yesterday he was attired arently, only in undershirt. pants shoes. The officers also learned Sellers was seen going iron, piace where the murder occurred Fying piece of pipe, with which |. IS believed to have crushed the Il of the white man.
 Little Known of Victim. ucKer came to Jefferson county Loaoke. where he has a small ther residing. He is known tt ' sister in Lonoke county, and .her in Little Rock, but the ad- ss Of neither is known.
 IS probable the body will be usnt to Pine Bluff today, an in s, s. conducted by Coroner H. D lnams and the corpse inferred c.