EX-GOVERNOR KILLED IN ARKANSAS MISHAP
X.O. Pindall Stumbles Off Railroad Embankment Onto Rocks in River.

"Little Rock, Ark., Jan 2 (AP) – A man who lost his life here this afternoon when he fell 
over an embankment into the Arkansas River, was identified some time later by Coroner 
Laswon C. Aday as X.O. Pindall, former Governor of Arkansas.  Dr. Aday said he had 
established identification through papers found on the body.  The body was recovered 
from the river after two wood cutters saw a man who was walking across a railroad track 
atop the embankment stumble and fall over the edge.  The man's head was crushed on 
stones jutting out from the bank and the body tumbled into a pool of boiling water at the 
foot created by a power company's drain pipe emptying into the river.  

Mr. Pindall acted as Governor of Arkansas from May 14, 1907 until Jan 11, 1909, when 
he was succeeded by George W. Donaghey.  He became the State's acting Chief 
Executive by reason of his election as President of the Senate in the year in which 
Governor John Sebastian Little became physically incapacitated to perform the duties of 
the office.  In those days, there was no office of Lieutenant Governor."

Source: New York Times (1857-Current); Jan 3, 1935; ProQuest Historical Newspapers 
The New York Times (1851-2001), pg 10.