The courier-index., 1919-11-07

ens, ad to deaCH III eS eOndenlliIbue Fore today before de ehs,s ,laas Jim Jimason M. Jackson, pit 'uoss; oVss;vities in the race rlots hsir 'i,''iihle :" the southern p,aa par, of < county, ,ss iyry eight minutes est to {, & the vssrdict sriy against Frank < q I veluh with the murder of ehsrgeu 1ae 2 citizen of Helena; bb Lee, m the morning of Hoop sBeE sisEs 0,, was s''f found guilty g it Der !; h"t ;n the indictment the ]. ','ssu ssuutomatically sending nm 'p., record was broken in
 lnss s,g afternoon darkness E''pt,r' iary retired at 5:S2 ds.oas to de- {. 's's ssie of five other negroes lls n Sitb lItf the murder of Lee; A .,;1,,tes m,rp later they returned ,a4 ninSrdi finding the defendants ''',s sending them to the eaee, ad { 'h'iE, IL tas ease we were Ed Hicks, 2, ,s of Frank Hicks, president E ' Elaine "a lodge of the Progress, Progress, E e..ssrs, n,s'rs and Householders' si''s .q America; J. E. Knox, vice 0i of the Elaine lodge; s'aI Woore, Ed Coleman and Paul < AyS,d, State officials believe that 's,vistion z of the quintet they :''i \ tbs fate of the leaders Tn T,ine insurrection. seven r,s, ,srroes are to be arraigned 'raT morning on charges or ,sr ' in the first degree. All are ssd ss' W with tn the murder of James 'sS w member of an old Helena < sl vbo was killed on the same ss,t Lee met his death. Both ' {, tbp home of Finis Mccoy, a Y man. m near whose home Lee ,hot, Those to face the tomorrow morning are Ali
 h, on an individual indict- ibert Giles, Milligan Giles I0s Fox. on a second indict- and John Martin, Ali Banks, ,pd Will Wordlow on a third Enent Two charges of first ps murder are awaiting an an from Banks.
 five negroes convicted this roon were held on one indict- Aaging them with complicity ie murder and alleging that aided and abetted in the
 The shot which killed Lee find by Frank Hicks, the first convicted.
 Speeding Up Trials.
 speed with which the work is court progressed today caus- pndictons that all negroes in- might be tried and disposed k week.
 xnmg of court this morning hdge Jackson to begin the af negro insurrectionsists was n by its lack of impressive There were less than 50 per n the room when when the called in Frank Hicks.
 d Deputy Sheriff Dalzell,
 bailff, hurried from the kl and returned with Hicks, gar-Old negro, dressed in rag relalls and a dirty coat. He nsoly frightened. He walked
 halting step to a chair n out to him and sank in it. arralgnment he pleaded Mot
 Selection of a jury start lselve veniremen were called ~ accepted.
 lN Jackson then announced aar adjourned until D. m. asf that members of the bar attend the funeral of Oscar aa' local attorney, who died
 days ago in Chicago.
 afternoon session opened ae appearance of a few ne- s,a a lne court room gallery and 's.as'lng in the court room of p1n sno are prominent in affairs ,auP county and Eastern s.sss .aS The number of negroes ,s.S @ as the afternoon session 'a' A hundred were listen Me testimony an hour after is 'so s opened. F. F. Kitchens,
 sno was ill. when the out 0ss.urfed; County Clerk E. JIaior' Ias B. J. Cunningham, lns' ,'al Ike Moore, once acting b'' N ,'d of Arkansas, and others ,0,,' "sa known were in the ,Vom.
 r,,a OIOoks, a member of the @tS'..',O rs to reach Hoop Spur after |w sas ts occurred, was the first N v.. " 'ne stand. He testified K oi s's 5. standing on the running lae wal nle automobile in which Sot ''S u sitting at the time he Sbi.h ne is told the direction phs Ia. 'ne shots came and of N Ie ~'s S;. into the Mccoy home. G Ps,m~o'ea ~ea live minutes later. a, delee, saJ city engineer of be psva @ Dr: o. Parker of astesra' sa's testimony of minor or \ Hsl.iha. n. Faulkner, Jr., a Ed after sd mon, recently dis any csos.; service in France as of I'@l,,' Iea'.' testified as to the 30 feet tSfs 6. death. Faulkner ae shot rom ron the negro who mn ''' but could not ident- and orpsai.ss s'saess to divulge the piss s negro ro''lTaIl0n mohi,Iof of the union