The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-24
SHE IS SORRY NOW
Mrs. Cornelia Street Regrets
Now That
SHE TOLD ON HER BROTHER
Old Man Is in Jail at Shawnee,
Oklahoma.
HE TOLD ON HER BROTHER

A special to the Eagle from Shawnee,
o. T, says that Alexander Jester. alias
william H Hill. whose sister, Cornelis
Street, reported him for the murder Of
Gilbert Gates OF Valley Center. near the
Kansas line, in Missouri, which murder
Is alleged to have been committed in the
year 1S71, was arrested yesterday upon a
telegram from the sheriff OF Mexico, Mo.
The murder case against Jester was pend
ing in that county on a change of venue
when the old man made mis- escape from
jail.
AIRS. Street says she was present when
Jester arrived in Kansas in 1871, and that
she never saw the defendant from that
time until lapse Of twenty years. when
she located him in Norman, o. T. She
knows nothing about his guilt, but knows
that he Is the same man that was wanted
at the time. In November, 1898, at the re-
quest OF her brother. she Joined him in
Shawnee to keep house and assist him
with his children. Soon trouble over the
children arose. but not until the parties
had invested what little they had Of this
worlds goods In home worth about $3.50.
AS the old man would threaten to put the
sister, aged so years, out Of the house,
she would threaten to report him to the
officers for the murder of the boy In Mis-
souri,. and 1t got so bad between them that
the old man partitioned her of in one OF
the three rooms Of the house, and he and
the children occupied the remaining two.
About this time news OF a contemplated
marriage by the old man reached the sis
ter's ears, and while in a At Of anger she
wrote the letter which appeared in the
Eagle last Sunday reporting him.
The old man q now in Jail awaiting re-
QUESTION, which will come speedily, and
the sister is in regretful meditation. She
said TO a reporter this morning: 81 wrote
the letter when I was mad, and have
often wished could recall It."
The old man draws a pension rs Alex
ander Jester, alias William H. H. Hill,
which was allowed him for services dur
ing the rebellion as a private in the Nine
teenth Battery Indiana Volunteer Light
Artillery and which has been paid quar-
teriy fortthe last two years by the To-
peka agehcy. He appears about 20 years
Of age and Is we'll reserved.
A A. Gate and his wife, the parents Of
the murdered boy. are living at St.Charles,
Ill They expressed intense pleasure yes
terday On learning that Jester is found
and at last to be brought to trial for his
crime. The old man, who had started at
once In 1871 on the suspicion that some
evil had befallen his son, who had ferreted
out HIS murderer. and afterward had
searched for him again without success,
corroborates every detail that has been
telegrHphed from Kansas OF the almost |
forgotten crime. He said:
Mrs. Street is telling the truth when
she says Alexander Jester, her brother,
killed my son Gilbert. I made this wom-
ans acquaintance nearly thirty years ago
while in search Of information regarding
my lost son. She then lived at Wichita, |
Kan. With the aid OF a search warrant |
I went through her house seeking clues, |
and in the drawers Of a bureau found a |
number OF articles which I identified as
belonging TO my SON II is a case Of muir |
der wNl OUT"
Gilbert Gates body never was found al |
though, even after the search for Jester |
had been abandoned, the hunt for some
trace Of his victims remains was kept up. |
Stlu Ills CDLlGSSltu ludl ne udu
thrown the body into the creek that cross |
ed the trail about two and a half miles |
from Middle Grove. Mo. The bodies OF |
George and Laura Gates, his brother and |
sister lie in the plot at Oakwood GENE |
terry near West Chicago. and between |
them rises a marble shaft ten feet high |
on a granite base.
The names OF the two children whose |
bodies lie beside It are inscribed there, and |
upon another face Is this inscription: