Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — CIVILIANS ARREST NEGROES [ARTICLE]

CIVILIANS ARREST NEGROES

Arkansas Posse Catch Black Trouble Makers Before Troops Arrive at Scene of Disorder. Dumas, Ark., Jan. 23.—A civilian po-’se from Dumas, preceding Camp Pike troops to the scene of Wednesday’s trouble between armed negroes and a deputy sheriff, captured John Welch and Frank Kibbel. two of the alleged ringleaders, ami ascertained that Will Kibbel, George Kibbel and Doc Hayes, the others, had escaped. The civilian posse met the Camp Pike soldiers and turned them back to Dumas.