The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-10-06

A Chieftain reporter called at the
jail this morning and secured an in
terview with Mrs. Flora Hurley, the
woman who is held as an accomplice
TO the murder or her brother Lou
Hunt the man who Ed Harlan con-
fesses to have killed and thrown In
the we'll. Mrs. Hurley IS p years Of
age, blonde, rather small woman
aud Of good intelligence She talked
very freely OF the case, with the ex-
ception OF the Harlan connection
witt lf.
j She said she and her mother and
little sister, together with Lou Hunt
had lived on farm together for over
two years, that she had been COM
pelled 70 slave for her brother and
that she was never allowed TO go any
where OF receive any company That
he would not allow her TO write or re-
celye letters, but sick or we'll she had
TO perform a mans work on the farm.
That her brother had beat her at diff
forent times and forever two years he
had taken advantage Of her whenever
he desired, and threatened her life II
she told OF his criminal and brutal
actions. She says he abused his moth
er and threated a short time ago to
nail up the house and burn them all
alive, and that it was only BY the con-
slant watch OF the efforts Of herself
and mother that they kept him from
running her little half-sister. She
says IL was during one of his fits Of
rage that when he was beating her
that Ed Harlan chanced 70 pass, their
house and heard her screams, and she
threatened TO tell Harlan, that her
brother, Lou Hunt, said that If Har-
Ian interfered or crossed his path he
would leave him in the woods, mean
ing he would kill hm.
She says sh was never at the Har-
Ian house but few times and that
was when Mrs. Harlan was there, and
that she never knew about the killing
until after it had happened; that Har-
Ian came to their house and told her
what had happened and she went and
helped to get rid Of the body and that
upon their return from the well she
stopped at home, which is only a short
distance from Harlan's. Size never
told her mother or anyone else, she
says, what had happened, but that
when she saw him dead she had not
the least apity for him. nor has size
regretted il since. She says at many
times during the past few years she
would have killed him herself II she
could. She says the only peace she
has had in all this time has been
since he was killed, as he was continu-
ally and forever raising what he called
and what she called ''hell." That
a short time ago she made him a new
suit Of underwear and because she
worked on them on Friday he took
them but and chopped them into
threads and then turned Ia the stove.
That he hao no friends in the COM
munity and II he had she didn't know
who they we're.
She says her parents have been sepa-
rated since she was little girl. That
her father married second wife and has
a family in Missouri; that her mother
married again also, but is now a widow,
having only one child by her second hns-
band, the little sister mentioned above.
They live on leased farm and have
some property, half or more Of which be-
llongs to her and her mother. She says
that she and her mother had offered to
-ire Lon al the property il be would