Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
NEGRO KILLED
IN ARGUMENT
ON EAST SIDE
Henry Kines Held In Jail AS
Slayer Of Clyde Oliver Follow
ing Shooting.
PROSPECTOR SHOT IN FIGHT
Brawley Man In Hospital With
Probably Fatal Wounds After
Desert Battle.

DeSert Dattle.
Shot in the small of the back at
a distance of more than $50 yards
after an east side brawl, Clyde Oh
iyer, 80, Negro, was killed yester-
day afternoon and Henry Hines, So,
also Negro, is held at the county
jail on charge of numbering Oil
yer,
Kines was arrested in a grape
fruit grove after fleeing from Mrs.
Ophelia Northerns residence at
SOB South Second street, where
he was when he fired the shot
which resulted in divers death.
Kines roomed at Mrs. Northern's
house.
The suspected killer told Tom
Sharp, district attorneys investi-
gator, that Oliver had threatened
him with knife, then told him to
get his gun. Oliver then left the
Northern residence and went to
his own house about 300 yards away
across a vacant lot. While Oliver
was returning, Kines said, he OPEN
ed fire, missing once.
KineS second bullet took effect.
and Oliver dropped to the ground.
Kines was shooting with a 30-30
rifle. He dropped the rifle and ran,
later being arrested by Ell Centro
police.
According to the story told to
Sharp, the trouble between the two
men had its inception in an argu-
ment between Mrs. Northern and
Mrs. Alma Turner, who lives on the
same lot as Mrs. Northern, in a
house at the rear of the lot.
Women Start Argument
Mrs. Northern accused Mrs. Tur-
ner of being over friendly with
Kines while the former was at Los
Angeles, Kines told Sharp. When
Kines entered the room, Mrs. Tur-
ner began berating him. Kines
picked up a beer bottle and threat
ened to strike Mrs. Turner if she
did not keep still. Oliver, who was
in the room, obtained a knife and
told Kines to put down the bottle.
He did so.
Kines then obtained an axe. The
tense situation abated when Oliver
left the house, telling kines to get
his gun. Oliver said he was going
for his own gun. While Oliver was
away, Kines took up his rifle. When
he saw Oliver returning he opened
fire. Oliver was fully $50 yards
away when hit.
Officers saw discrepancy in
Kine's story because the bullet
which killed Oliver lodged in the
small of his back. 1t was also point
ed out that a search of divers
clothing revealed no gun.
An inquest will be held this af-
ternoon or tomorrow, when facts
of the killing will be brought out.
divers relatives at Maston, Ohio,
have been notified of his death.
John Hewitt of Brawley is at the
Imperial county hospital in crit
ical condition from a bullet wound
in his abdomen, while Raymond S.
Niemeyer, a, is held at the coun-
ty Jail on suspicion of assault with
a deadly weapon and G. j. Conk-
ling, 43, Paul H. Suiter, 25, and
Bill Jackson, 25, are held as ma
terial witnesses.
Hewitt, a suspected bootlegger,
was wounded near Peg Leg Wells
OH the Niland-Blythe road yester-
day afternoon when he and jack
son came to a prospecting camp
while eight prospectors, including
Niemeyer, Conkling and Suiter,
were away, and began drinking
moonshine whisky.
Niemeyer, Conkling and Suiter
returned to the camp to find the
two men practicing with revolver
and causing considerable damage
to camp effects.
Niemeyer took the revolver
away from Hewitt, he told Tom
Sharp, district attorneys investi-
gator, to keep him from doing any
further damage. Hewitt advanced
on Niemeyer, attempting to regain
possession of the gun. When Me
meyers warnings had no effect,
he fired. The bullet struck Hewitt
in the abdomen.
Another story was that Hewitt
drew the gun on Suiter, forcing
him to take drink, before Me
meyer deprived him of the wea-
pom.
After Hewitt was wounded Mel
meyer, Conkling, Suiter and jack
son placed him in car and took
him to Calipatria, where they
gave themselves up to. Constable
Thetford. They were taken to the
county Jail, and Hewitt was re-
moved to the county hospital.
Sharp was interviewing other
witnesses today in an effort to
clear up the stories told of the
shooting. Sheriff's deputies were
preparing to hunt still reputed
to have been operated by Hewitt
and Jackson.