Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-07-13

uhck1 bookiuH WOrkf ODbaiuou ~ from
her cousin, and soon after married
her. He spent much Of his time, she
says, eagerly reading every news
paper he could get hold Of and when
not reading seemed in deep study.
Later he began preaching and kept It
up on and OF for twenty i've years.
He was OF e quiet disposition, but
when angry lost all control Of himself.
He was very reticent about bis past
life, she says, though he spoke Of llIy-
ing In KansaE, Of having been In Mis-
souri, and hunting buffalo. She does
not believe him guilty of murder.
James Reynolds, aged IS, a son BY .
former marriage Of TESTERS second
wife, and who lived with Jester many
years, believes thoroughly In his In
nocence and win do everything pos
sibie to help him.
TESTERS third wife, who married
him in Norman, May %, 1896, and OBJ
tanned q divorce rom ssm nine
months later, says Jester was hard to
get along with and had an ungovern-
able temper. He would not work.
She was compelled to support him by
washing. He told Of having changed
his name from Alexander Jester TO
W. A. Hill when he went to Texas,
but never explained It satisfactorily.
There was always a mystery about
him and she was not surprised at his
being arrested for so serious a crime
and believes him guilty.
COURT REsTRAINs COURT.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, July ga
writ of prohibition against the Pro-
bate Judge OF Pottawatomie county
was issued from the District Court
here to-day by Judge Burwell to pre-
vent Probate Judge Jennings from
institutiug contempt proceedings
against County Attorney Pittman,
Sheriff Trousdale and Jailer Riddle, OF
that county, who permitted the al
legged murderer Jester to be removed
to Mexico, NO., while habsas corpus
proceedings were In progress.
The writ also compeis the Judge to
decide q motion pending in his court
as to his Jurisdiction in the Jester
case, a motion which the Judge arbi-
trarily refused to pass upon because
IL would stop the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings.
The writ was asked for by the Sher-
III and County Attorney.
GOV. BARNES oNTHH JESTER INCIDENT.
Gov. Barnes, Of Oklahoma, was in
Kansas City Saturday and was sect
by a reporter Of the Times, which says:
"The Governor said that the action
of the sheriff and jailer at Pottawato-
mie county in delivering Alexander
Jester to the Missouri authorities was
q bad piece Of business. He said he
had not the slightest doubt that Jes-
ter was the man wanted by the Au'
drain county authorities, but he de-
plcred the weakness Of the officials OF
Pottawatomie county in surrendering
him without warrant from the court.
The governor also said that he was
Of the opinion that the probate Judge
before whom the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings were brought, had no juris-
diction In the case, but that the sheriff
should have held the prisoner until
ordered to deliver him.
"Contempt proceedings have been
brought against the sheriff and iailer
of Pottawatomie county. In case IT lie
established that the probate Judge had
no jurisdiction in the matter the
officers cannot be punished.
MRS. STREET AND GATES.
HAaERsrowN, IND, July s.-The
story from Muncie, Ind, In Saturdays
papers, to the effect that Philander
Jester, a brother Of Alexander Jester,
who was recently arrested in Okla
homa for the murder of Gilbert Gates
in Missouri thirty years ago, would
attend the trial OF bis brother In Mis-
souri, and attempt to prove that his
sister, Oornelia Street, was engaged
to Gilbert Gates, is laughed at here,
where the parties are well known.
At the time Gilbert Gates vas killed
Oornelia Street was married to Calvin
Street and had several children. Ac-
companied by her husband she went
TO Missouri with Alexander Jester,
and moved her goods in the very
wagon that was owned by Gilbert
Gates at the time he was murdered.
She never saw that unfortunate young
man, besides, she was many years his
senior.
Ii lie also asserted that Philander
Jester will swear that his sister, Cor
nelia Street, is insane. Many people
in this community know her and de-
clare she 10 wholly sane and an un-
usually conscientious and Christian
woman.
A Silly Insinuation.
1t is difficult to tell at this stage Of