The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-11-08
AFTER MILLIGAN.
The MURDERER OF THE CLARK
FAMILY ARRESTED.
CAPTURED BY EAST ST. LOUIS POLICE.
Acting Governor Lowe Issues n Requisi-
tion on the Governor OF Illinois
FOR the Body OF the Eiend-A
Murder Scar ingram.

John Nulligan, the negro fend, who
murdered the Clarke family in Spring
er township, oklahoma county, as
mentioned in yesterdays LEADER, is
in durance vile. The following tele-
gram was received by county officials
here yesterday:
EAST ST. LoUIs, Ill.
Sheriff, Guthrie ok
1--WE have arrested John Milligan,
colored, who murdered Gibbs Clarke,
wife and daughter lie has acknowl-
edged the crime. Come w tn vara n t
ii d get hlm. Nike WALSH,
Chief of Police.
Although this matter was not in the
jurisdiction of Logan county officials,
a requisition was secured and placed
in the hands of City Policeman Gebke
who left on the 3:2O Santa Fe passen-
ger for East st. Louis to get the pris-
oner
Twenty minutes after Gebke's de-
parture, J. NJ. Fightmaster, sheriff of
Oklahoma county, appeared at the Of
fee of the secretary of the territory
and applied for a requisition for Milli-
gan. He carried with him the indict-
ment returned against Milligan by the
grand jury of oklahoma county
Geblle's requisition was at once re-
called and Sheriff Fightmaster started
after his prisoner 1t seems tnat the
deputy county attorney upon receiving
the East ST. Louis Telegram, thought
the murder had been committed in
this coun Y an natu all, took the props
er steps towards getting the murderer.
When Eightmaster appeared his appli'
cation was void and the matter was
dropped so far as Logan county Off
cials were concerned.
Murderer Milligan was in Guthrie
last Friday and Saturday and left for
St Louis Saturday afternoon.
The full particulars of the atrocious
murder are substantially as follows:
About year ago n negro named
Clark came out from Tennessee and
lived with an old negro named Will
Jams up in Deep Fork township until
six or seven weeks ago Ahen his wife
and nine year old girl came out from
Tennessee, accompanied by an eigh-
teen year old negro named Milligan.
They finally went to live on Free
mans claim in log cabin Clark had
built and the Milligan boy made mis-
home with them.
Friday morning one of Freeman's
girls went to the Clark cabin to get
some money coming to her father and
when she opened the door she was
horrihed with the sight. The father,
mother and daughter were all covered
with blood and there did not appear TO
be any signs of life in any of them.
The noise, however, had aroused Clark
from his stupor and he called to her
and asked if his wife and child were
dead She hurried back home an /
notified her parents They went to
Mrs Clark was dead but that the little
/ girl was alive but unconscious. The
/ throats of the three had been hack ed
AID cut, and each had been deal. a
fearful blow with an AK that crushed
the skull Clark was very weak, but
was able TO tell of the terrible trag-
edy. lie said that about ten or eleven
O'Clock he was awakened by some body
grabbing his face. lie opened his
eyes in time to see Milligan brandish a
razor. lie struggled little, he says,
and then as dealt terrible blow on
d the head after which he knew nothing
till morning. lie was so weak that hC
could not get up to see whether his
wife and daughter had been served as
the fend attempted to serve him. Iii:
wife had Sl75 that she had brought
from Tennessee which she had tied in
side of belt she wore around he
body underneath her clothing. Tn,
cloth belt was found but the none,
was gone.
1t is thought that the father ant
daughter may recover with careful
nursing but those who saw them thinl
that the chances are against their re
covery.
Milligan started for this city just a
soon as his fendish work was done.
r mile and half west of Clarlx's h
tried to hire farmer to bring him t
Guthrie and a mile further he trie
! again. lie is very black, round face
negro, weighs 1G5 pounds and is abou
five feet and eight inches high. lie i
Z brutal looking fellow, with scarcel
4 any intelligence Sheriff Fightmoste