Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-13 | Page 2 | Took a Shot at Brother Pastor

TOOK A SHOT AT BROTHER PASTOR Baptist Minister Attempts to Slay Another While En Bouto to Conference, TEXARKANA, Tex., May 32. Rev. J. B. Cranfill fired wo shots from a magazine pistol at Rev. S. L. Hay-den Hay-den on a Texas Sz Pacific train coming com-ing Into Texarkana today. Neither shot took "effecL The encounter occurred ln tho lavatory of tho sleeper on which both men were en route to the Southern Baptist Bap-tist convention at Nashvlllo. Cranfill wns arrested on his arrival here and nrralpmed on a charge of assault to murder, lie waived examination and was relcnflcd on $10,000 bond. Canllll left for Nashville this afternoon and'Hayden will resume his Journey tonight. Tho encounter today, It Is alleged, grew out of p.iBt differences, lesal and personal, between the two men. llayden was accompanied ac-companied by his wife and daughter, and Cranfill by a party of friends.