The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-03
HEAD OF NEGRO
 BEATEN ID PULP
 WHEN BODY FOUND
Highway Robbery Charged to One Man Arrested in Con- neCtion With Attack
 at Sayre

A negro, known to county authori- ties only as "Zeke," was killed by being beaten over the head with sticks and the butt end of gun, and J. C. Spradling, white miner of Bebby Switch, near Littleton, was beaten over the head until he fell into a state of unconsciousness and was then robbed of $20 in currency, Friday night about 10 o'clock. at the Warrior river bend, two and a half miles below Sayre.
 Three white men. Bert and Louis Glover and James Payne, residents of GIover's Bend. were arrested by Arnett, J. VI. Howard and Coroner. J. n. Russum yesterday afternoon charged with the murder of the negro and assault upon spradlinE. In ad- dition to the murder and assault charge. Bert Glover was charged with highway robbery.
 The head of the negro was beaten into a pulp. He is believed by off cers to have died within 10 minutes after the crime was committed. The body was found about a quarter of a mile from the spot wher the whip ping took place, concealed in patch of woods. The body of the negro was dragged to the spot where 1t was found, according to the officers.
 Beaten Into Unconsciousness
 at . about his head and face from the blows received at the hands of his as sailant. He stated to the investigate ing officers that he fell Into state of inconsistencies with the fourth blow he received and remained in that condition for a period, which he judged to be about an hour. After reviving, Spradling stated that he was unable to find the negro and made all possible speed back to hIs residence, fearing that he would again be attacked.
 Spradling recognized one of the white men as Bert Glover, he said, when he appeared at the sheriff s office yesterday morning where he procured a warrant for the arrest of Glover. Deputies Howard, Pitt man and Arnett ware sent after the alleged attacker of Spradling, when they reported for duty yesterday afternoon. and located him at his residence. Deputy Howard said he and his partner went to the scene of the whipping and instituted a search of the immediate vicinity for the negro. His body, which was stiff at the time of it's discovery, was found in the woods, the trail whore 1t had been dragged up to the spot h .t.-a2 f4rx ffe ofo aF rn Ia 1lvr,c taf Bert Glover then Is said by Deputy Howard to have implicated his brother and James Payne in the whipping of Spradling and the death of the negro.
 Searching For Cow
 Deputy Howard advanced the theory that the negro and Spradling were attacked because of the pro- bable belief that they were searching for a still. Spradling declared that his assailants came up on him and the negro while they were searching through the woods for stray cow belonging to Spradling. and that tho two Glover brothers and Payne ac- cused them of being "snitches." The spot where the negro was killed and where SpradlinE was beat is within 100 yards of that where imprisoned brothers. was killed last year by deputy sheriffs while raid on a still was being conducted.
 Coroner J. D. Russum, while en route to the scene to conduct his inquest over the body of the negro. was forced to ford the Warrior river at three separate points on horse back, his automobile refusing to make the try.