Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-03

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witness stated, and was told his pro
 lection would cost $500 month,
 which was to be divided between
 stewart, Green and Reidih9er Har-
 grove then paid Reidingef $300, in , four $50 and five S2O bills, accord
 Ing to his statement, and asked for
 the let of prospective customers,
 Reidin&er then, the witness said,
 WEctc the names on a slip of paper @1d gave them to nim. At this point
 ln the testimony, Prosecuting Attorn
 ey Farham tended the witness q piece
 of parer and asked to identify it and : Hargrove stated that it was the list Of customers given him by Reidenger. ,I Alleges Reidinger Got Money.
 ;. Hargroye went on to say that he ,, paid the money to Reidinger himself
 and that it had been secured by Con-
 verse before his arrival. After secar- ing the money, the witness said, Reid
 inger went into details of handling the whjskey, explaining how it could be brought from Monroe, La, by road thru some sort of relay system'
 The witness testified that he had not met Green thrueut the transaction and had only Reidinger's word for his , part in the affair, and that he did not i, meet Green until he went to his , house on December 20. Hargrove said : hat he and Converse went to Green $ ~ house about noon on that date acting l without the knowledge of the prose- outing attcrney's office, and that Con-
 verse introduced him to Green, at the , same time handing Green a piece of , paper with the license number of an F automobile on it to be given to Reid
 inger. They spoke of the deal with . Reldinger to Green, who, the witness !: testified, wanted to know what kind of 2 business they were interested in "le-
 gal CT illegal "This kind of stumped
 me- Hargrove went on to say, add :, ing that Green told them he had been ' sick and Reidinger possibly hadn't i informed him of his deal, but that he $ and Reidinger always went fifty-fif- $ ty' on everything. The witness tes- v tifled that Green refused tc talk about $ the affair further, saying that they h might be detectives"
 V On their way back to the hotel, Har- !. grove said, Converse called his at - sNIieioil sbN ee i.letl pSt9SllIS Ill c St1CGI O car. whom he said was Green. The after reaching the hotel Reidinge1 = called for Converse and Hargrove saie D he saw his companion go toward! T. Greens office. A little later he saw q him get into a car with Reidinger while man, whom he took to be V Green, was standing at the foot of tiat . steps. He went on to say that upol :. his return. Converse told him tha Q Reidinger had been very much excit ed about their having gone to set s Green after promising to let hin ;, handle the affair. Here the witnes: 9 testified that Converse told him that o Reidinger threatened to shoot him ii z he found out he was a detective, bu s objection by the defense on this testi l mony was sustained and it was strick ', en out as irrelevant. Hargrove wen fl on to say that Converse told him tha = Green had sent word for Hargrove t. d "keep his brooches on and go ahea, , and attend to business" and that ev o' erything would be alright The wit a ness said that he left town that even 1 ing and has not been back until hi a arrival for the trial. < On cross examination Attorney T d Havis Nixon for the defense asket W the witness if he personally knev :. . whether Reidinger had ever spoken t, q Gn1en about their deal, to which h. N replied he had only the word of Reid
 inger and Converse to that effect Tn
 witness admitted that his knowledg
 of Greens part in the affair was en
 tiroly heresay with the exception 0 !, what occurred at the house. Whe1 !, asked why he had taken no actio 3 against Stewart, the witness said n . had come here to work on Green. H , said he had taken Converse's word fo 9 Greens part in the affair.
 Got Money From Converse.
 In response to MT. Nixon's question , Hargrove stated that he had receive , the money he paid Reidinger froI Converse, who in turn said he had re $ ceived it from several local citizen; . He said that the numbers an denon < nations of the bills had been liste , by w. c. Hudson, but admitted tha : no effort had been made to take theI , off Reidinger after they had been pal , to him. He said that no one beside
 Converse had heard his conversatio r with Reidinger.
 y On the rebuttal, Mr. Parham aske Hargrove if he had been sent here | : get proof on anybody in particular, i t reply to which he stated that he simpl s ccme to close the deal which had bee e arranged for by Converse. In reply | } question to explain why Stewart ha e not been implicated, he explained ths |. the matter was discussed at a meetin , at the Hotel Pines at which J. I . Madn, Walter Hudson, Harry Trr lock and Mir. Parham were present, an
 that the suggestion that it would talk
 too much time and too much none
 to "gc after" Frank Stewart cam
 from the witness himself.
 In reply to a question by the dt Y fense, the witness stated that at frs '; he had understood that the money wa %o E,, 1;viIo1 fOl1r 1Na vc anH fh a f s9SOr