Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-07-06

tire story, saying: III there is re.
ward In il | want piece of it, Jester,
alias Hill, was then preaching in Okla.
boma and the man that gave his Sc
cret to me was one OF bis parishion.
oners.
81 wrote to the sheriff OF Audrair
county and ne wrote back, saying that
he had no knowledge OF snoh a crime
as the one alleged, nor did he ever
hear OF Jester. About two weeks after
l got another letter from the sheriff
saying that after inquiry be learned al
about the case, but that the people ol
the county we're not willing to re-
open the case; that the witnesses
were all dead or scattered, and that
the county did not care to 20 to any
expense in thrashing over such old
straw. ~
"He advised me to pay no more at
tention to the matter, as 1t would be
useless. | dropped the case right
then and there and heard no more
about il until recently. could have
put my hand on Hill At any time dur
ing the past three years on forty eight
hours notice y
This was said to have happened
three years ago, when J. N. Stephens
was Sheriff VI Audrain county. MIR.
Stephens said to q reporter for the
LEDGER this morning that the ex-
sheriff's statement was a mistake.
"About three years ago." said he,
rJames Umstead, Sheriff OF Monroe
county, wrote to me that he had re-
ceived letter from Gone. OF course,
I knew about the case through Um-
stead, hut had no direct communica.
ton with Gone Ho was mistaken
about having written the letter to
me; ii was to Umstead.'' a..ll g
MONEY FOR AN ALIBI.
GUTHRIE, Okla, June 30.---J. A..
Jackson, a wealthy friend Of the
prisoner held for the Gates murder,
has furnished him with money to
bring witnesses to prove an alibi. He
says he viii prove by a divorced wife
that he is W. A. Hin, and not Jester;
that he married her in Denton, Tex,
In 1870, and lived there with her until
1883, never leaving the state. Hill
Cor Jester) was divorced from this
woman at Norman, Okla, In 1894,
afterward marrying q widow, who,
In a year, secured divorce. The
records OF Pension Attorney Ross and
Notary Public John Allen, at Norman,
II is claimed, show that Hill applied
for and received pension as Alex
ander Jester. He explained this to
them by stating that he was living
with family named Jester and when
he enlisted with the Jester boys bis
name was put down as ester, though
1t was really Hill.
PRISONER DRAWS TESTERS PENSION.
GUTHRIE, Ok, June 80 "A. I. Roae,
q pension attorney at Edmond, tells 9
story that tends to dlsprove the state
ment Of Alexander Jester, now under
arrest at Tecumseh for the murder of
Gilbert Gates, that he Is not Jester,
but William A. Hill. In 1898 Jester
employed Ross to get penaion for
him, the application at Warrington
having been made In the name of Will
liam A. Hill. A reply came that no
man had ever served in the regiment
under the name Of William A. Hill,
but that some OF the facts alleged
seemed to fit the case of Alexander
Jester, whose name appeared on the
muster-rolls. when Ross told this to
Jester the latter admitted that he had
enlisted under the name of Alexander
Jester, but explained it By saying that
the name was that Of his adopted
father and that his real name was Hill.
The pension was allowed to Alexander
Jester, alias William A. Hill, who got
about $400 In back pay.