Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-06-29
JESTER IDENTIFIED.
OLD MAN wEPT UNDER JE0 W.
GATES Z ACCU-
sATI0E OF MURDER.
A PATHETIC SCENE IN THE JAIL.
Jester to Star for Missouri To-Day
His Sister Charges Another Muir
der to Him-Gates Interview
ed Mrs. Street.

SHAWNEE, Ok, June 81. = This
morning about II O'Clock J. W. Gates,
President Of the American Wire and
Steel Company, and o. b. Guerney,
OF Chicago, entered the jail ct Tecum-
sch, accompanied by County Attor-
ney L. q. Plttman and Probate Judge
j. d. F. Jennings.
Sheriff Ed Ward had arranged If
teen prisoners In q circle In the tor
ridor OF the jail.
MIR. Gates swept the circle Of men
with q glance, and immediately point
ed to Jester as the mar who had muir
dered his brother twenty-eight years
ago for the mere triie OF a wagon,
team, watch and a few clothes.
Upon facing the old man Mr.. Gates
said: "Mr. Jester, do you not re-
member me2r
The old man stared at him ina pitIa-
BILE gaze and answered tNo.n
Mr.. Gates asked: "Do you not re-
member me transferring you from
the jail at Paris, Mo-, to have the
papers read TO You for the murder Of
my dear brother.n
At this juncture Jester broke down
and began to weep. He finally made
q response that he had forgotten.
"Donit you think it is time that you
should repent for the horrifying deed
that you perpetrated when you took
the life Of my dear beloved brother
and cut q hole in the ice and then
showed his dead body through itfr
MIR. Jester became very nervous at
this point, but he finally responded by
saying; "God forgive me-" and re-
questing Nh. Gates not to talk about
the death Of Gilbert Gates.
J. w. Gates had an interview with
Mrs. Cornelia Street, TESTERS sister,
In which she said her brother had
committed q murder In Sedgewick
county, Kansas, about 1870.
She tells Of many startling incidents
In his life. She says her brother has
been married three times. The first
first wife died mysteriously and the
other two were driven away.
sis this Alexander Jester the man
who murdered your b~rother7" Mr..
Gates was asked by q Republic cor
respondent.
"Yes, this lie the man whom /
marched from the jail in Paris, No,
to have the papers read to him for the
murder of my brother"
"what have you to use against
hint"
"He is doubiy guilty and we have
an abundance Of testimony to con-
vict him without using his sister; and
abe would make 4 good witness. IL
shall not leave q stone nnturned TO
bring about the conviction, for he is
guilty just as certain as God reigns in
Heaven
"Have you q distinct recollection Of
hlm7n
"Yes, his features have flashed
wildly in my memory many and
many a time since be murdered my
brother and hid his body"
"What was found In TESTERS pos
session when he was arrested that
belonged to your brother7"
1.-THE team my father raised. He
had one suit OF underwear that my
mother made for brother Gilbert and
then he had brother Georges watch,
who was killed In the Civil War, and
brother Gilbert, whom Jester muir
dered, has been keeping It as q relic"
"Wha became of the watch9"
"We have it yet"
MI. J. W. Gates has made a very
favorable impression on the people Of
Oklahoma during his brief aequain-
lance.
Public sentiment is turning against
Jester.
TO MISSOURI.
GUTHRIE, Ok, June Ex-Governor
Barnes to-day received q telegram
from John W. Gates, the Chicago
capitalist, stating that he had posi-
lively identified the man under arrest
at Tecumseh as Alexander Jester,
who was accused twenty eight years
ago Of the murder Of Mr. Gates young
brother In Missouri.
Sheriff Nelson, Of Audrain county,
Missouri, arrived here to-day with a
requisition for the return of Jester to
Missouri. Gov. Barnes has honored
the requisition and the sheriff will
start for Missouri with his prisoner
tomorrow, the Court at Tecumseh
having this evening denied the writ
OF habeas corpus asked for by the
prisoners lawyers. |,
JESTER IN sEDGEwIcK COUNTY.
WICHITA, KAs., June H.-Jester
came to sedgewick comfy In 1871. 1t
10 said that be had lived In Greenwood
county In the year previous. No
murder can be traced 70 him In sedge-
wick county.