The Nevada County Picayune

Carter Is Bound Over.

Pine Bluff, Ark.—J. W. Carter, the negro preacher of Little Rock who is held in connection with the murder of Albert McVay, was given a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace L. E. Cheek here Monday. The court, after hearing the evidence, took the case under advisement for three days.

At the hearing the defense introduced the evidence of two negroes of Little Rock, who swore that Carter was elsewhere than Pine Bluff on the night McVay was murdered. The prosecution, on the other hand attempted to convict Carter on the strength of the two letters that he admitted he wrote.

One letter was written to the authorities of this city telling them that Charley Jackson, a negro of this city, could give them all the information wanted concerning the murder of McVay. Carter admitted today that he wrote the letter, but stated that he had done so in order to get Jackson out of the way, as he was jealous of Jackson. Carter declared that Jackson had no part, so far as he knew, in the murder of McVay. The second letter was written to the woman here and in this Carter asked her to prepare to leave the state with him at once.

Those were the important developments in the hearing.