Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — HERNDON CONDEMNED. [ARTICLE]

HERNDON CONDEMNED.

Ths Little Book and Fort Smith Train Bobbery of Last March. One of the Men Who Killed Conductor Caln Found Guilty of Murder. A Clarksville (Ark.) dispatch says the jury in the care of Jim Herndon, one of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railway train robbers who murdered Conductor John C.dn, leturned a verdict of in rder in the first degree after be ng out thiitv minutes. The crime for which Herndon has bean convicted was committed March 8 lain, Herndon, with his fe.low miscreants, being soon after jailed in Ozaik, Aik. March 21 the Johnson brothers confessed their complicity in the attack on the train. It was the understanding that the train was to bo captured and the pa sengers robbed. Their intention was not to kill any one except in self-defense. The shooting of Conductor Cain was done under excitement, and was entirely unnecessary. A mon named McDonald was at the head of the gang. Herndon fired the shot that killed Conductor Caln. He then went to McL'o: aid to stop the shooting, but McDonald shot at him, supposing he was a passenger. Jim 1 eturned the fire, snooting his leader in the face. One of the Johnson brothers, known as the “Governor," served In the I nl ed army during the war of the Rebellion, and is now drawing a Government pension.