El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-15
STAR WI 7 NESS
CLARK ARRESTED
Sheriff Orndorff Serves
Warrant Charging Muir
derin Cottle County.

W. G. Clark, star witness for the
state in the murder trial of Felix
Jones, was arrested on a warrant al
leging murder at 1920 o'clock Friday
noon by sheriff Senth Orndorff The
warrant was issued on February s.
from Paducah. Cottle county, Texas,
and was brought to FL Paso by sheriff
Theodore Combest. OF that county
accompanied by county attorney John
NJ. Martin. Both officers leave for Pa
ducah this afternoon at BIS o'clock
with Clark in custody Clark is at
present in the Fl Paso county jail
Complaint, Not Indictment.
The warrant on which Clark was
arrested calls for the apprehension OF
Bill Clark, and alleges that Bill Clark
is wanted for the murder Of Gus Spell
ker in Paducah, COttle county, in 1909.
According to the visiting officers OF
Cottle county, Speaker disappeared
from Paducah, and nothing was
known Of his whereabouts until the
discovery Of his body in a ravine
three miles from Paducah. The corpse,
when found, had a knife sticking in
the skull. County attorney Martin
was careful to state that the warrant
was based on complaint. and not on
indictment.
Keep Mission A Secret.
The COttle county officers arrived
IN FL Paso Sunday for the purpose OF
arresting Clark. For reasons which
they did not divulge. they kept their
mission a secret until Thursday when
they informed sheriff Seth OrndOrff
OF their purpose. The officers con-
ferred on the matter, and it was de-
cided that Clark should be arrested at
a conference OF the officers Of both
lF0fHNa and ISL pnEn rnTnNfng nn0m
Friday.
Dan Jackson Takes Gun.
Immediately after the adjournment
Of court, Clark was called into the
office OF the district attorney. where
were gathered sheriff Orndorff.
sheriff Combest, county attorney Mar
tin, and former Judge Dan Jackson, of
Ell PasO county. Sheriff Orndprff
placed Clark under arrest, and the
prisoner surrendered his gun to Judge
Jackson. After a closed meeting with
the officers lasting over half an hour.
Clark came out Of the room alone, and
accompanied only by a friend, went
downstairs to the sheriffs office, took
the elevator to the jailOr's office,
and submitted himself to be dOcketed.
Interviewed by a Herald reporter
Clark said.
Claims Never Heard of Man.
I am under arrest for the murder
OF man never heard of. which took
place Il years ago in Cottle county,
a county have never been in. The
evidence on which 1 am arrested is
the statement OF a man named Gar
rett convicted OF the murder Of this
man Speaker, who alleges that I as
sisted him in it. I don't know any
thing about the case, and never saw
Garrett that I know Of
Il did know man named Garrett
Cnce. but he was part Indian. and
went under the name of Sam IVY, tax
ing the name Of the white family that
reared him in the Indiana Territory.
The last time I saw sam Ivy. or Car
rett, as his real name was, in 1901,
lie was riding away from old man
Ivy's ranch on a horse he had taken
from the old man.
Intimates It's Frameup.
It know why L am charged with
this murder. The affair hasn't hap
pened just the way the trainers
thought IT would They intended to
have me arrested and IN Jail before
this trial started. and that is why
the officers arrived here last Sunday.
But they didn't pull IL off that way.
Ihcy laid low and didn't tell anybody
what they were after until Thursday.
Sheriff Orndorff told me about it
last night. and told me TO meet him
in the district attorneys office at
noon. 7 have known about it since
last night, and yesterday evening I
looked all over town for the man 7
thought started il, and If I had found
Linn there would have been something
Going"
Sheriff Combest proved uncommuni-
cative concerning events leading TO
Clark's arrest. but admitted that he
had been working on the case for over
a year. He said that deputy sheriff
A. u. Lam bert, OF Fisher county,
would accompany himself and M
Martin to Paducah with Clark Clark
VIII be tried next April, according to
sheriff Combest.