Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-19
Burns Detectives Say Pine Bluff Men Warned Them
 To Remain Away.
GREEN, REIDINGER
 BE TRIED APRIL 2
Prosecuting Attorney Obtains Gontin- uance Till He Gan Arrange to Pro vide Protection Asked For
 Two State Witnesses.

That he could not go to trial with the cases of Clint C. Green and James w. Reidinger. indicted on charges of conspiracy, bribery. accessory to brib- cry and nonfeasance in office while serving as constable and deputy con- stable, respectWely, due to absence of witnesses for the state-Burns detectives of St. l.ous-who were said to have remained away because of threats made to them in St. Louis re- gently, was the statement made by Prosecuting Attorney T. G. Parham in moving d continuance of the cases in court yesterday, the day the charges were set for trial. Attorneys for the defenses insisted upon going to trial asserting that if the detectives were afraid to come here now they prob ably would be afraid to come later, but MT. Parham said he would arrange to give the men the protection re- quested for them by the Burns agency manager, and Judge w. B. Sorrells set the cases for Tuesday. April 2.
 Detectives Intimidated.
 A verbatim report of the proceed ings, prepared "by the court reporter, follows
 Mr. Parham: Now, if the court please, in these cases, when they were set for today we commenced fmme- diately to get ready to try them. Our witnesses, who are in the jurisdiction of this court-and they are all in the jurisdiction of this court except two- have been summoned. While I have not called the list this morning, I guess they are all here. We are just as anxious to try these cases this morning as anybody else could possi- bly, be; and to tell the truth about 1t, it is a matter that l want to get off my mind. I want to get through with it. l want to try these cases. knew the defendants are entitled to a trial and I want to try them. Mir. Rrockman and 1 thought we were in shape to try these cases until Sarur- day about nine O'clOck-Saturday night-When l received telegram from the manager of the St. Louis of flee of the Burns detective agency, stating that those men would not be here this morning. When these cases were set, l wrote to the Burns detect i've agency, by whom the investigators who were here are employed, and nO- tified them of the setting of these ceses. They wrote me on the fourth day of March that those men were available and would be here. On that, of course, we relied. Now, as say. Saturday night I received that tele- gram. Yesterday morning MT. Brock man came down to the office. I was very much upset about that, of course. I put in a long distance call for the manager of the St. Louis office. I got him on the telephone and this is what he said:
 "That MT. HargrOve has been in St. Louis a good deal of the time lately; that for the past several days he had been met on the streets of St. Louis by people who were unknown to him, who would stop him and threaten him about coming to Pine Bluff. Would make statements to him that he had better not come to Pine Bluff-that it was a place for him to stay away from, and different intimidations and threats of that sort. The other man at this time is not connected with the St.