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Brinkley, Arlan set, August 27,1915shyExll‘Cotton Plant Mon Victim ofSunday Murder, lurriedIn BrinkleyThe body of Jack Foster, the Cotton Plant contractor, who was killed at McClelland Station north of Cotton Plant, on Sunday morning: last, by a mannamed Jim Hill, was brought to Brinkley Wednesday morning for interment in the Catholic Cemetery.Foster was a levee and drainage contractor and built a lateral of the Piney District here. He together with R. B. McKnight and a number of other Cotton Plant people had gone up to see the high water. Hill, it appears had formerly worked for Foster whom he claimed owed him $25. They had gone thro’ a law suit over it and the court decided in favor of Foster. When Foster and McKnight rode up to where Hill was working. Hill is reported to have said:* ‘Foster, this is where I worked and earned the $25 you owe me and this is where you have got to pay it,” and with that drew a pistol. Hill reached over McKnight’s horse and fired one shot in Foster’s body, killing him instantly.The dead man leaves a wife and three small children and seems to have been well thought of by his townspeople.The man Hill had not been arrested on Wednesday morning tho’ it was reported that he had sent word to the officers that he would surrender if they would take him to Augusta to jail, evidently fearing the feeling against him by the friends of Foster.Father Henry Frommen conducted the services at the Catholic Church and the funeral was attended by a large number of Cotton'Plant citizens whocame over on the train.SIHfoA recontaiicheckbuggyBrinktCash rturn c no vali the ow Forthe Aserfffg$2.50
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Brinkley Argus
Brinkley, Arkansas, US
Fri, Aug 27, 1915
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