The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-10-10
FORGING THE CHAIN.
Detectives Hot on Trail Of Montsom.
ery's Assassin.

The murderer Of George C. Mont.
eomery the Santa Fe detective had
not been apprenended at midnight
last night
Nearly score Of officers were
working on the case and reporter
for the Leader has e from reliable
authority tnat there is a good clue to
the assassin.
It has been eroneously stated that
Sheriff Daniels of Winfield. refused
to follow the hounds into Oklahoma
He did no such thing. according 20
his own statement At Arkansas City
he was told the hounds would cost
s35 the first day and $15 every addi-
tional day. He said he did not know
whether the county commissioners
would staad for such an expense, but
he decided that he would keep the
hounds another day at his own ex-
psnse. The owners Of the hounds
would not listen TO this They said
they would not want him to pay for
them and took them away.
Sheriff Daniels was not a strong ad-
yocate Of continuation of the mound
chase anyway One Of them laid
down" shortly after leaving Winfield
AID had to be carried in a buggy.
The other hound seemed to have a
light scent. and when she reached the
stable at Arkansas iCty. she looked
in at all the stalls, as any dog would
have done. and id not select one stall,
as stated. Sheriff Daniels has nto
lost faith in the ability of the Man
haitian blod hounds to trail criminal,
but he thinks too many people tramp
ed over the scene of the murder for
them to get a reliable scent
That the officers believe that the
assassin came from the territory,
there is scarcely any doubt. Both
Oklahoma and Kansas officers are
centering about Bliss, where Nj.
Montgomery had trouble with cow
boys. They are leaving no stone un-
turned to find clue to the assassins.
Il is reported at Winfield that the
murderer left the point of high heel
cowboy boot in the yard of Mr.. Mont
gomery's residence and that it was
preserved by having a box placed ov-
er it, It is also stated that measure.
ments have been taken of the full i'm
print of the boot and compared with
measurements of a shoe man. 1t is
thought that the boot track will cut
quite a figure in the case.
The affair at Hackney is also at
tracing good deal Of attention from
the detectives. That the murderer
had been there Saturday night there
is no doub.. Two hours after the as
sassinationf a masked man called at
the depot agent-Ed Donnelly-at
Hackney and asked if it were true
that Montgomery had been killed at
Winfield. He could not have heard of
the tragedy at Winfield unless he
knew something about It. The people
on the freight train, which had just
passed Hackney did not know any
thing about 1t, as the train had left
Winfield within few minutes after
the time the crime had been com
mitted. 'fhe masked man could not
have had time to travel from any
point where the news could have been
heard during the time which had clap
sed between the time of the shooting
and me time he asked the agent at
Hackney, ii It were true that Mont
gomery had been killed.
The theory is that after the tragedy
occurred at Winfield the murderer ran
TO a crossing. where he caught the
freight train that had stopped there
enroute to Arkansas City. He appear,
ed at Hackney Immediately sitter this
train had unloaded some freight htere
and had gone on This is pretty
strong circumstantial proof that the
masked man had gone to Hackney on
that train and that he was implicated
in the murder at Winfield. Ed Don
nelly has given the detectives good
description o. the clothes worn by
the masked man.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
detectives are making no statements
1t a certainty tha hey are linking
facs and circumstances into a power
full chain OF evidence around a sus-
pected party. who is not cut of reach.