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WOODRUFF CO. NEWS.
POBLISHBD TllOKSDAY OF BACH WEEK AT
McCHORY, ARKANSAS.
WALTER W RANEY, Editor.
Entered at the Post-Offlce at McCrory
Arkansas, as Second-Class mall.matter.
June 11th, 1908.
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JAMES W. RENEAU STABBED TO
DEATH BY W. L. QREER.
Former Woodruff County Boy
from whom Greer Attempt
ed to Collect Sixteen Dol
lars Goes to Office and
Leaves It a Corpse. Reneau
Was the Aggressor.
From the Arkansas Gazette.—
Stabbed at 10 different places in
his body, James W. Reneau, a
breakman on the Iron Mountain,
who lived at 102 North Pulaski
street, died between 2:30 and 3
o’clock Thursday afternoon from
the wounds which were inflicted
by a steel paper cutter iu the hands
of W. L. Greer, a well-known col
lector of Little Rock in Greer’s of
fice, room No. 12, Fulk building,
just a short time prior to his death.
Blood poured profusely from every
one of the 10 wounds, and Reneau
lived but a short time after the
cutting, which terminated an en
counter between the two men,
caused by trouble between them
over the collection of $16.40.
Greer was arrested shortly after
the shooting, making no attempt to
escape, and is now in the Pulaski
county jail, held on the charge of
murder, pursuant to the recom
mendations of a coroner’s jury,
which, after listening for two
hours late yesterday afternoon to
evidence in the inquest over
Renau’s body, returned the follow
ing verdict:
“We, the jury, find that J. W.
Renan came to his death from
knife wounds at the hands of W.
L. Greer, while being held by
Miss Cora Davidson. We, the
jury, find the killing unjustifiable,
and recommend that W. L. Greer
be held to the Grand Jury without
bail.”
MISS DAVIDSON HELD RENEAU’S
HAND.
Miss Davidson is the stenog
rapher for Mr. Greer, and accord
ing to her own testimony, strug
gled with Reneau while he and
Greer were down together on the
floor of the office, and with both
hands held one of Reneau’s hands,
which she and W. T. Tucker, at
torney, in room No. 11 of the Fulk
building, swore held a gun.
She testified that Reneau started
the trouble in the office by knock
ing Greer to his knees with his
arms, and further testified that
Reneau then seized a gun belong
ing to Greer, which was lying on
the table. She told the coroner’s
jury that immediately after Reneau
seized the gun, she grabbed the
hand holding the weapon and
struggled to keep him from using
it. She swore that she did not
see Greer stab Reneau; that she
did not see the knife in the con
flict, and that, in fact, she did not
see it until after the trouble was
over and it was in the hands of
another person who had come in
to the room ; that she saw blood
during the conflict, but did not
know where it was coming from,
and that Greer did not touch the
revolver. She was the only wit
ness of the encounter from the
start.
MISS DAVIDSON TELLS OF STRUGGLE.
Miss Cora Davidson was then
called and testified:
“I was in an adjoining room
when the man came in. He came
in and asked for Mr. Greer. Mr.
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Greer was busy with a negro at
the time, but he asked Mr. Reneau
to sit down, which he refused to
do. He stood up right in the wav
until Mr. Greer finished with the
negro. Then Mr. Greer again
asked him to sit down and he re
fused. Mr. Greer was sitting
down. Mr. Reneau got close up
in his face and told him that he
had come up to settle the matter.”
“He said, ‘What did you do me
that way for?”
“He also said that he did not
think Mr. Greer ‘had done him
right,’ and wanted to know how
much it would take to settle. Mr.
Greer said it would take the full
amount, $16.40.
“Mr. Reneau repeated the ques
tion about it taking $16.40, three
times, and then suddenly struck
Mr. Greer with his arm, knocking
him down. Then he grabbed the
revolver lying o n the desk.
The desk was between them and
myself when he grabbed the gun,
but as he did so 1 ran around,
thinking that he was going to
shoot Mr. Greer. I called Mr.
Tucker. I grabbed the hand with
the gun to keep him from shoot
ing, and Mr. Tucker grabbed Mr.
Greer in an attempt to tear the two
loose.”
“What became of the pistol!”
was asked.
“I do not know,” Miss David
son answered.
“I did not see the knife at all,
but saw blood. I did not know
which was hurt. I did not see the
knife until Mr. Ives had it. The
knife was kept in the room as a
paper weight. I never saw Mr.
Greer pick it up. I was watching
the pistol. The men were on the
floor. Mr. Greer never had the
pistol in had his hand at all.”
WAS A FORMER DEPUTY SHERIEF
JamesJW. Reneau, who was kil
led, was born at Howell, in Wood
ruff county, in 1873, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Reneau. He
lived there for a long time and
then moved to Cotton Plant. He
was chief deputy sheriff of that
county for a number of years un
der M. H. Patterson, now state
senator. He moved to Little Rock
two years ago and took a position
as condnctor on the street car sys
tem here. He then went to the
Iron Mountain railroad as a brake
man. He married Miss Lnella
Griffin ten years ago. He leaves
his mother, his wife and two sons,
aged five and seven years, three
sisters, Misses Mattie and Minnie
Reneau, and Mrs. Ed Brooks, and
two brothers, West and Howell
Reneau, all of whom live at How
ell, at which place the funeral will
be held.
DEVIEW.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
Will O’Davis, of Bradford,
spent several days here with his
parents.
Mrs. Crosby Haggard, and little
boy, have returned to their home
in Shawnee, Okla.
After several weeks stay with
relatives at Ward, Mrs. S. A.
Bishop, is at home.
J. W. Bradley spent sometime
with homefolk at Humbolt, Tenn.,
returned home last week.
Mrs. Gid Stark and little daugh
ter, are in Beebe this week, visit
ing their friend, Miss Brown.
Mrs. Gilliam, of Trenton, Tenn.,
came last week to visit her daugh
ters, Mesdames Harris and Chaney.
The farmers are just beginning
to realizing that the cotton crop is
much shorter than last year’s crop.
I)r. Morris was called to Heber
last week to attend the bedside of
his mother. She is at present im
proved.
Cotton picking is 60 cts per 100.
Pickers are very scarce. Families
can get houses and plenty work
near this place.
We can not understand why there
is such a difference in the price of
cotton and cotton seed in different
towns such short distance apart.
Mrs. R. L. Simmons, of Brink
ley, and her sister, Mrs. J. J.
Jenkins, of Beebe, spent the first
of the week with friends, here.
A bale of cotton at A. S. Thomp
son’s gin caught fire Monday night
and burned so it can be of no use.
Farmers should not leave their
cotton at the gins for when they
do, they leave them at their own
risk.
The Farmer’s Union have de
cided to sell no cotton seed at the
present price. They are hauling
the seed home to feed Old Pide and
the calf. The right step in the
right direction and farmers can
control the price of their produce,
if they will try.
HUNTER
By Our Regular Correspondent.
Plenty of rain at present.
S. C. Hunt made a business trip
to Briukley Saturday.
John Acre of Wheatley is in
our town at the present writing.
Married : Mr. Tom Smith to
Miss Adder Freeman, Sept. 17, ’08.
Mrs. Ella Baker, of Brinkley,
visited relatives and friends the
19th.
Mr. Hicks, of Kentucky, is a
pleasant guest of Mr. Tom Sulli
van and family.
Floyd and Clarence Branson, of
Pine Bluff, are now among old ac
quaintances at this place.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stair have
gone to Illinois to spend a few
weeks with the former’s rel
atives.
Mrs. Will Frincher ami Miss
Mary Sullivan, of this place are
pleasant visitors in Wiville.
Prof. R. 0. Mitchell, who is
teaching the Morton school, was
home Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Irene Vanderburg is spend
ing a few days with her sister,
Mrs. Lucy McDonald, of Hunter.
Homer Wilson, of Nettleton,
was among friends and relatives
here on the 19th and 20th. He
will return in a few days to make
this his home.
We, one and all, extend our
heartfelt sympathy to Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. High, over the death of
their twin boys, which arrived in
their home Sept. 7th. ’08.
Rev. Mae, Pastor, of the M. E.
Church at this place, is conducting
a protracted meeting in our city,
which will continue during the
present week. We will say to the
people who attend the baseball
games on Sunday you had much
better attend these meetings reg
ularly for 3 ou need the word of
God taught you. The games you
are carrying on are a disgrace to
our town and community, and
seems that you are blind and can
not see it. We are sorry to have
to ask the editor publish it for you
to see.
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