The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-19

witch doctor he located the witches and de clared that the only way that the plague could Kill them. Some of of the % supposed witches were relatives of the defendants and had sat up with the sick mbembers of their families,
 must be killed to stop the plague. Hotema, as the chief man in the community sum moned Tobia Williams and Sam Frye, young full -bloods. to his assistance. They got in Hotema's buggy. armed with a Winchester and
 mission They tirst called at the home of vna Coleman, the sister-in-law of Hotema. and shot her down without enmpunetlon Mniie gS She
 babe was wounded, but not killed. An older child attempted to run away when the shoot
 ing began and was shot in the back.
 They next went to the home of Hall Green
 inquired where his wife was, informing him
 that she witch and that they had come
 to kill her. Greenwood began to plead for
 quiet that they would not kill him until the
 said they would kill him. and for him to be
 sure to be on hand They then killed his wife
 The last victim was Alfred Morris who was deliberately shot down. without any kind of warning. From the house of Alfred Morris sippi, who was away. little boy living with
 him saw them coming and fled. As he ran away several shots were fired at him. The murderers were arrested and lodged in jail at Antlers, and from there were carried to Atoka, the holdONer jail for the AntlerS court While ncarcarated there Tobias Will l Hams died. Hotema, Frye and Tarnatubby | were granted change of venue to the Paris Federal Court and were transferred to jail here pending trial
 They made application through habeas cor | pus proceedings to Judge D. E. Bryant for | bail Hotema and Frye were denied bail. | while the offense of Tarnatubby the witch doctor, was held to be bailabe, he having ad vised the killing, but not being present when | the tragedies were enacted. He admitted
 to bail in S2 900 as an accessory before the | fact.
 | The wholesale killing of the supposed | witches by Hotema and his confederates is but | one of the many such killings which have oc- | cured among the Choctaws in years past. | One of the most striking of these witch eve- 1 cutions took place several years ago In Blue | County on the Boggy. Stephen Belvln. who | has since that time been sheriff of the county.
 a member of the National Council, who has | held other responsible positions, and who is | still living, had pneumonia and being treated by a white physician.
 | Being a full-breed, unable to speak English, | Mary Folsom, a beautiful half-hreed girl liv- | ing in the community, employed nurse | and interpreter to that the medicine WIS l administered according to directions The pa- l tent did not improve under the white doc | tors treatment. His neiRhbors and friends be- l coming dissatisfied, insisted that a ChoctaW | doctor be sent for
 | There was in the community known as | "Flin@ Isom, famous a witch doctor. He | was sent for. As as he examined the pa. ! tIen. ne declared that the white doctor didn' know what was the matter with him and was | treating him wrong, that he had been shot | with witch ball, and that the girl who was
 nursing him was the witch who had placed