The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-01-13

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for some time
She then went to bed under q very
heavy strain of sediment; laid down
on the bed with her head toward the
foot Of the bed. leaving her clothes on
she tsstiits that she Immediately fell
to sleep and knew nothing for some
time. when she imagined that she
heard her hdsbaud grooming; She tcs-
titles that she imncdiatiy rolled out
of bed. called TO her SO, George who
was down stairs, to run out quick
that something vas the matter with
his father: after some hesitation
George left his bed, put ON his shoes
and coat, took his gun, made a cir
cult of several rod, going almost or
To the barn: he cal cd Tor his father
three times then returned TO the
mouse and dressed himself.
Sac te,tidts before the c%oroncr's
jury that She never came down stairs
u.t.4 about the time that George
founr the body sometime after, but
mad become bewildered up stairs in
the eN. itemeut and could not find the
stairway until her daughter come
over with a lantern in the preliminary
examination she test f,s tina she went
down stairs and rem a,ncd down until
after George had come in and dressed
himself when She went back up stairs
and remained there until George mad
gone out as he says, going north west
of tne barn some distance until lie
came to the road running north and
south. when he went down
past the barn ard house,
went over to his sister Gertie's
house. went around that house
and down to a barn and cora and
some distance south of that house; he
then returned to his sisters house,
when he raped on the window and
woke his sister Gertie up, who let him
in at the kitchen door: he thea went
up sta r, and woke mp his brothers Joe
and win e. c%ursing them when they
did not ~ousc up Immediately; he re
NAMED there until they were dressed
and had pro ured their guns, when
!, circuit around northwest of his
fathers barn about twenty-five or
thirty yards, when he discovered his
sisters coming over with the lantern,
and when they had gone into the old
mans house and assisted their mother
down stairs, they in answer to
Georges call, all repaired t. the barn,
where he had found she body of his
father living with his head to the south.
1t appears at this time they gave
vent to their grief in loud and re-
pcated screams winch were distinctly
heard by their n%cighbors from three
quarters OF a mile to a mile away.
/, Various membcrs of the family started
out in different directions to alarm
their neiFh bors THIS seems to have
been not later than @ o'clock in the
evening.
All of the members Of the Derr fam
lily testify that they did not hear any
shot fred; four witnesses, neighbors
living to the west, testify TO hearing
the shot fired, followed by the screams
of the family not more than fifteen or
twenty minutes after the shot.
The old lady teetihes that after
y some of the neighbors mad arrived
.. there she went to tie house, fixed the
fire, ground and prepared some coffee.
=. when She looked at the clock and it
I, was 9:l5.
One Of the strangcst things in con
nection with this murder is the fact
that six grown persons of the DerI
y family, who were on the witness stand,
o testify that the shot was not heard by
. any Of them, while it was distinctly
heard by five or sin persons from
+ threc-quartcr, of a mite 20 a mile
$ away; that George Dcrr was mp and
;, had travelled around calling and
c searching for his father. making fire.
quent trip, around IA the vicinity OF
the house, after getting up and dress.
ing, which must in all reason occu.
= pied at any rate about one-half hours
, time: that the interval between the
n shot and the screams Of the family
I was not more than twenty minutes.
? The fact that George Derr had al
e ways guarded in the evening before,
S when any guarding was done. and
t that this was the first evening the old
nan had guarded, as the evidence dis
. closes, is another peculiar incident;
; that George Derr, before an inquest
I was held, without making any investi-
5 cation. should rush into Guthrie,
i and swear out warrants for six per-
+ sons, without the least evidence point
ing to their guilt; his anxiety TO inn
plicate some person, his conflicting
and unreasonable statements on the
witness stand, are peculiar incidents
surrounding this murder which future
investigation mus. clear away.
Washington school.
Jennie 7. Cuppage, teacher-Pupil'
, neither tardy nor absent during the