The log cabin Democrat., 1917-03-26
ALFRED DAY KILLED
 BY CLARENCE WREN FAMILY TROUBLE CAUSE
Midnight Tragedy Results from Diff faculties Between Wren and His
 Wife, Who Sought Divorce.

and killed John Alfred Day, 34, q farmer who lived four miles north east of Conway, in front of the resi- dence of Mrs. Mary Davis, mother of Wren's wife, on North Front street, at midnight last night. Five shots were fired, two of them taking effect, one in the base of the skull and the other in the lower part of the back. Wren, immediately after the shooting, aroused neighbors and had them call Sheriff w. w. Bishop, to whom he surrendered. He was placed in jail.
 The shooting took place at 11:50 D.. m. and Day lived until 1 55 a. m. He never regained consciousness.
 The tragedy is result of domes- tic differences which led to the sepa- ration of Wren and his wife last Oc- tober, and the filing of divorce suit by Mrs. Wren, which case would have come up for final hearing in chancery court today. Wren claimed that Day had been attempting for the past sev- eral years to pay attentions to Mrs. Wren, resulting in two previous sep arations of the couple prior to the last. This, however, is denied by Mrs Wren.
 In a divorce suit filed by her Oc- tober IT, 1916, Mrs. Wren preferred various charges against her husband, stating that shortly after their mar hn hoI al the property which she had inherited, and also that he had been guilty of drinking, gambling, swearing and cruel treatment. She also alleged that he had charged her with infidel- tity and had asserted that he was not the father of their third child, then 20 months old. In an answer and cross complaint, Wren denied the ma terial allegations of the complaint and claimed that his wife had been intimate during the summer of 1913 with a young man whose name was withheld" and that her clandestine meetings with this man were so ire quent that he and his family were ejected by their landlord from the house they were occupying. A sep aration followed, but the differences were smoothed over later, the asnwer states, and the couple lived together until October 16, 1916, when the de- fendant discovered letter which he alleged the plaintiff had written to the man whose name was not given, and the letter contained such matter as to lead him to believe his wife was intending to quit him and go to the other man. Dispositions later filed in the case brought out the fact that Alfred Day was the man referred to in the defendants answer.
 According to Wren's statement to the officers last night, he was in the room with his wife when Day knock ed at the door and called for Mrs. Davis. There are two front doors to the Davis home, and Wren said that his wife ran around to the one at which Day knocked, while he opened the other one and looked out. "For Gods sake, run, Alfred; Clarence is here!" Wren said his wife said to Day. "You are too late, 1 have al ready seen you," Wren told the of ficers he said. "Day raised up his hand in the pocket of his overcoat and started toward me-" Wren said, land I started to shooting. He be- gan to run and shot until my pistol was empty"
 Day was found lying on the side walk a few feet from the front porch. He was taken to J. A. Pence & Sons establishment, where he died about two hours later. A 32-calibre pistol was found in his right overcoat pock- ct. Wren used a 38-calibre revolver. Night Marshal John Durham was the first officer to reach the place. He said Wren had on only his under clothes. A few minutes later Sheriff w. w. Bishop and Deputy J. l. Sum- mers arrived and Wren, acknowledg- ing the killing, surrendered to them and was put in jail. Mrs. Wren de- nied to the officers that her husband had been in the room with her. eff
 he was in there I didn't know any thing about it," Deputy Summers said she told him.
 Coroner J. A, Pence decided that a lcoroner's inquest was unnecessary and
 will not hold one. No warrant has as
 vet been issued for Wren, but it is
 probable that one will be issued to- day. and day for a preliminary hear ling set by the justice of the peace Issuing the warrant. Wren has em- ployed Robins & Clark as counsel. Alfred Day was born in Georgia, March 1, 1883, and came to Arkansas with his parents, Mir. and Mrs. John