Show II g CLAYTONARKANSAS MURDER Clew DiscoveredPolitics No Part of I the Tragedy Little Rock Ark Dec SInterest in I the Pitts Ga claim to the murderer of John A Clayton which had about subsided sub-sided here owing to the tone of a recent re-cent communication from Luther Ai ken the Georgia convict guard who claims to be in possession of the name of the murderer has been revived and it is not probable that the clew will be investigated Sheriff J D Clarey of Bradley county Ark in an interview with Governor Jones told him of the strong corroborative evidence of the statement that a Georgia convict has confessed to the murder ofClayton at Plummersyille in the autumn of 1890 At the time the murder was committed commit-ted it was generally conceded to be the denouement of a political fight but according ac-cording to the confession politics played play-ed no part in the terrible affair revenge re-venge for an old grudge being the motive mo-tive given by the Georgia convict |