People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — KILLED BY ROWDIES. [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY ROWDIES.

WOMAN AND CHILD SLAIN IN ARKANSAS. Unprovoked Attack on a Camping Party —Leader of the Assailants Is Killed—Indignant Citizens in Hot Pursuit of the Gang. Stuttgart, Ark., June 12.—Meagre advices have just reached here concerning a tragedy which occurred Saturday night near the town of St. Charles, Ark. A fishing party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, another man and his wife and three children, had gone into camp on White river. Saturday night a gang of lawless men, headed by John Kemp, assaulted the campers and being repulsed began firing at them. The result was that one woman and a child were instantly killed, while one man and a boy were injured. In addition to this, Kemp, the leader of the rowdies, was killed by Thompson. Great indignation prevails in the vicinity of the outrage and a party has been organized to search for the perpetrators.