Van Buren Press, Crawford County, Arkansas February 2, 1889 THE LAST OF THE BRUTAL COAL HILL WARDENS BROUGHT BACK FOR TRIAL E. B. Scott, who was at one time warden at the Coal Hill convict camps and who is wanted on a charge of whipping and beating convicts to death, has been arrested at Paris, Texas. Scott has been indicted for his crimes and a reward of $200 was offered for his arrest. The arrest was made by William Franklin, an ex-convict, who worked at the mines while Scott was warden, and who knew of the crimes he committed and of his indictment for the crimes. Scott and Franklin both tramped into the city and happened to meet at one of the depots, where they discovered each other and the arrest was made. Scott attempted to run. He admits that he is the man and has been taken to Johnson county and turned over to the sheriff. Scott is the warden who directed Gaddis and Hall to "kill the d---s-of a b--, Tolbert" in the mines in December 1887. One night he whipped a negro named Andy Frye, hitting him 112 licks. Frye was chained up all night and Scott hit him 96 licks in the morning and the negro died within an hour afterward. He whipped a white man named Mark Elder so bad that he never recovered, and when his body was exhumed it was found to be in a terrible condition. During his term as warden, from October 1 to January 1, 1887, Scott was drunk half the time, and when in this condition his cruelty knew no bounds. One night when drunk, he whipped seventy-five men, hitting them an average of fifty licks with a leather strap. The skin was broke on each man's back and the blood ran out on the floor. Scott cannot be tried until the May term of the Johnson Circuit Court, and he will be kept in jail at Clarksville until then.