The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-01
TAKEN TO PRISON
QUICK ACTION cor on A SUMNER
COUNTY CRIMINAL,
Arrested, Tried, Convicted and Placed in
Hoers-His Crime was Intimacy With a
Thirteen-Y ear Old stepdaughter-Crim-
inal's Wife Given an Hour to Leave the
County-Nob Law was Feared-How the
Prisoner Acted When He Faced His
Neighbors-Shoued Great C0wardice.

The worlds record for the speedy ad-
ministration of justice has been broken
by Judge Burnett of Sumner county.
Monday Charles Doty, a shoemaker,
of oxford, was arrested for criminal
intimacy with his thirteen year old
daughter. Monday evening he had his
preliminary, yesterday he was tried be-
fore Judge Burnett, found guilty and
sentenced to twenty-One years in the
penitentiary. The prisoner will be be
hind the bars of the state prison in less
than forty-eight hours after mis- arrest.
Last night Sheriff Heskett and City
Marshal Frank Henderson were at the
Union depot having the prisoner in
charge, taking him to the penitentiary
They left Wellington in the afternoon
and when they got to Oxford there was
about forty men on the platform. Doty
was scared almost 10 death. He is a
man of natural cringing cowardtce and
he trembled like a leaf while the train
stood at the depot. His wife. VINO IS
also the mother OF the outraged little
girl kept begging him for a kiss but ne
was too scared to get out of mis- seat.
''Oh, Charlie, give me one last kiss
she would say and repeat until the
sheriff made her get away.
This same woman has had guilty
knowledge of the awful crime that ex-
listed between the husband and daugh-
ter, and still pleaded with him for a
kiss.
There IS demand for her prosecution
also and the county attorney gave her
an nour to leave the county under pain
of being arrested and jailed.
Doty, when arrested, protested his in
nocence but the little girl swore pos
| itively against him in a tatement and
when ne found this out ne acknowIedg-
ed his crime
There was great feeling against him
and he feared being lynched. He fear
ed IL so bad that he wanted the Justice
10 come 10 the jail to hold the prelimi-
nary. He had d right 10 fear il for had
II not been Tor the rapidity with which
Justice was administered there is no
doubt but what he would have beAn
dealt with violently.
The Wellington Mail speaking about
the matter says:
quite an audience assembled in tba
district court room this morning To baa,
CHARLES Doty sentenced to the uenjtAn-
nary The case was called shortly sf
ter 10 O'Clock. Judge Burnet then CUES
Toned hlm closely to learn whteher he
1uiiy understood the effect of such a
pea ana the limits of the punishment
thalt might be melted out to him. Dotv
seemed 20 comprehend his situation.
Mamie Williams was then brousbt
into the court room from the Judges
private office. County Attorney II, 7,
woods then made a statement of the
contents Of the girls sworn state
ment as published in the Mail last
night and passed it up to the court
He stated further that this was the de-
PENDANTS third known offense of this
character. He insisted that the sentence
should not be less than fifteen years
ana as much more as the court might |
see fit to make it.
Judge Burnett then questioned Nan
ME Williams TO determine whether she |
understood the import OF all her sworn
statements. He then asked her whetb- |
er she still insisted that those state !
mente were true. Upon receiving an !
affirmative answer he turned to Doty |
and inquired whether he had anything
TO say. A faint NO" was the only re- |
Spouse.
The defendant was then ordered to |
stand up and Judge Burnett sentenced |
him TO twenty-one years in the state |
penitentiary, adding: Il am sorry that |
cannot make it ninety-nine years" |
Deputy Sheriff C. c. Shaver immedi- |
ately hustled the prisoner out Of the |
court room by the back stairway and |
into jail. He was very willing to get |
behind the bars.
LAS the audience fled out OF the court |
room, everybody had a word of ap- |
prevail for the sentence of the court, |
coupled with regret that it couldn't |
have been heavier. And nine out Of /
ten wound up with Now send the |
woman up with. him" The demand |
for Mrs. Doty's prosecution is both |
general and vigorous. She IS regarded /
as equally guilty with her husband
''Doty will, in all proba bility, be ia
ken to the penitentiary this evening and |
il would be welcome news 70 oxford |
and Sumner county at any time that his
days had ended there"