The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-01-11
WALTER HARRISON AND MERRILL
WARREN, BOYS, CHARGED WITH
MURDER OF UNIDENTIFIED MAN
(From Mondays Daily Press)

Mondays Daily Press)
Walter Harrison, aged Is years, of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H Harrison residing at 619 North Fifth street.
and Merrill Warren aged about 10 years. son Of Mr. and
Mrs. Evin Warren, residing at SOP South Ninth street.
in the custody Of officers warrants charging them
with first degree murder in the killing of unidentified
in the outskirts Of Rector the night Of November
IA, 1916. Harrison arrested at the home OF his par
ents in this city Saturday evening by Chief of Police j. f.
Peterson. Warren in the reform school in Little Rock
to which institution he sent at the December term
Of the Greene criminal court, suspended sentence
Of year for burglary Warren had been out pa
role granted by the circuit judge and just prior to the
converting Of circuit court arrested a charge OF
stealing horse When he arraigned in court Judge
Dudley revoked the parole and ordered Warent sent to
the reform school, When warrants issued Saturday
charging Harrison and Warren with murder Sheriff Geo
Crews of Clay county, in which Rector is located went
to Little Rock to get Warren The sheriff and his pris
passed through Paragoud this afternoon on the be-
lated Cotton Belt train for PiggOtt Sheriff Bob Emore
also delivered Walter Harrison to Sheriff Crews at the
station here Both boys will be taken before the grand
jury in session at Pggott and if the evidence is suf
ficienty convincing to connect them with the crime it is
probable they will be indicted for first degree murder
MANS BODY FOUND.
The fact that murder had been committed was
known on Wednesday morning, November Is, when the
body Of unknown man. apparently forty years of age,
found near saWdllSt pile at a stave mill IN the
suburbs of Rector. Near the body large iron bolt
about ten inches long Wounds on the mans head in
Dictated he had been struck number of blows with the
bolt and the conclusion naturally followed he had been
murdered The authorities at Rector took charge of the
body and held it several days. in the meantime making
efforts to establish the identity Of the dead How
ever, clue found and the body finally in
tered. Later from distant state went to Rec
tor in search of her husband She thought from the de-
scrpon given the whose body the officers had bur-
led was her missing husband. The remains eXhum-
ed and examined by the woman and found not to bel
those of her husband. The body then renterred.
Officers continued their investigation for several days n
an effort to apprehend the murderer, but they
able to make any progress in solving the mystery.
JOHN BARI4EYCORN CAUSED EXPOSURE
The fact that any of the details have come to light
is due to overndugence in ntoXcants the part of
Merrill Warren during the latter part of November Hist
tongue oosened by the effects of John Bareyco he|
told Aubrey Ireadway, of Mr.. and Mrs Tom Tread
way and Ray Thomson, son of Mrs Brack ThOmaSOn,
of the murder Recently the Treadway boy told his faith
and he in turn communicated with the officers. War;
ren while intoxicated became involved in difficulty
with Betsy Smith the Majestic theatre after
during the latter part Of November After leavngl
Smith he net the TreadWay and Thomson boys and|
told them he intended to kill Smith and Chief OF POicel
Peterson remarking that he and Walter Harrison killed.
man at Rector several weeks prior to that time Hell
rected the details of the crime stating the man. who was
unknown to him, had flashed money while in Nc
Brides cafe here Tuesday night, November IA; that
he and Walter Harrison went with the freight
train to Rector that night; that they lay down by saw
dust fire and that while the stranger was asleep he struck
him several blows the head with large iron bolt and
killed him. Warren says he went through the mans|
pockets and got $50, but that he told Harrison he Sc
cured only SIG, and gave Harrison two dollars of he|
money. He described the to the boys, saying hel
tan Shoes leggngs and corduroy trousers After
the killing and robbery Warren said he and Harrison
walked back to Paragoud, distance of about sixteen
harna
BOYS TRIED TO 'KID" HARRISON
After hearing this story, which the Treadway and
Thomson boys did not believe to be tue they went up
Pruet street and found Walter Harrison Thinking They'll