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Show pra inft fSPJEJli Armed Men in Hot Springs, Arlu, Shoot Handcuffed Man St. Louis. Dec. 20. Ocar Chitworvl, charged wiih having killed Shorl:f Jake Honpt in edit Sjrrd-'s. Ark., la.-'t August, w!s l iken Ironi th county Jail at Hot SJrln-::-, early today and shot to death, according to a teelphono message from there today. HU head was riddled with bullets. Chltwrio.i was being spirltcJ from tho county jail 'to tVic police st.i'lou when dlcovered by th tiio'.i. He was recently granf-d a change of venue and wa to have been taken to Ronton, Arkanas. today. Th mob wa made no of twenty :n'ti who wo.-o handkerchief over their face. The lynching took xlncv in an enclosure en-closure between the Jail and the co;trr. house, built for the execution of another an-other prisoner who v.a hanged H' September. Throo men In the m I) did the r.ctual hooting, while th ethers eth-ers waited o itslde the enclosure. C'Hlt-wood C'Hlt-wood wa handcuffed anil wni bi lug taken our of the jail by a deputy sheriff sher-iff who wa ordered to raio bU hands. Prosecutor .1. V. Wend said f l' V that he would Investigate th- suny told by Der'i'y Sheriff John Rutherford, Ruther-ford, who wa guarding th" prisoner. Wood n'd he wan'ol to acertaln how the mob knw Chltwcod was to hr.v been taken to nfetv. Chit wood had obtained a change of venue to Benton, Saline co.inty, aid Rutherford. "And on Saturday evening the order or-der came to t;ike him to Little Rock, whore ho would bo placed iu the pen-itentlary pen-itentlary for safe keeping until the trial was called. "We decided to take Chltwcod from tho count jail to the city jail early this morning to await the train for LltMe Reck. "I handcuffed Chitwood and lead him out of the Jail door at 1:45. Just as wo stepped oi.t of the Jail door, throe or four men stepped into the enclosure from the stroet door. They aimed their revolvem at my head and told me to put up my .hands. 1 didn't have time to draw my own revolver. "Chit wood didn't say a word. Hn was handcuffed and. of course, hod no chance to make a light. So while h stood there locking at them nnd I stood beside him with my hands in te air, the three men shot him to death "I could sco abotu fifteen men stand lng in the itret. watching us throuch the framed enclosure. AH seemed to be masked V They were quiet and when Chltwood had been killed, they walked away without saying anything to me. 1 didn't recognize them." |