The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-03-21
BONESTEEL SENSATION
Young Attorney Froni Neb.
raska is Held on a
Serious Charge.

Norfork Neb. March li-Teleeram
seusations which rrai ,hc days of driua-
tie intensity which held sway al Bone
steel $ - durns the rusn days to the
Rosebud have seized unon that town TO-
day 1s the result OF % lawsuit growing
cut of q scandal ir mgh society" in
which David Watkins. o young attorney
las hcea hello To- the circuit court in the
sum OF $500 AS result OF the trial
which has held the boards at Boncsteei
TO- more tig,, . week and which was
attended by crowds OF several hundred
eager aeditors each da. there were
threats to DO tioleuce 20 Judge Howles
who presided Mrs Nellie Neuuemacker.
who is alleged to have been associated
with Watkins. has ATTEMPTED suicide by
taking blue ointment and warrants have
heer issued against both the woman and
her husband She is charged with
thc same crime alleged against Watkins.
while her husband, who shot at Watkins
.ohen the latter fled towards Ncbraslxa.
j. charged with shooting with intent to-
Eu"
A rcrort which reached Norfolk today
states that violence agai ST Judge Howles
went SO f1r - % briag rope into the
court room ana that lu am Of the Bone
steel saloons there were angry words that
limited at tar and feathers.
Watkins. VINO is % hsndson4 Young fel-
low, graduated from the Nebraska uni
versity law school last June and located
ltcxt dag at Bonested Ills defense
laraipst the charges that have been made
is the scheme is one OF bhckman and
u g
case for 81 COO The town seems to be
split ia two feg1rding the merits Of the
Case. business mon apparently standing
sriidly by tho Young lawyer and the
crowd known as the "Olslahomans" the
/ eople who had ganed experience In the
Okls,ho amiush and who used 70 here
stand with the man who claims his home
lgd been ruined
when the uhl closed Yesterday and
/ the case had been declared against Wat
Fins tine woman who had testified posi-
lively against hla an through and who
lad virtually admitted that their rela-
IONS were not what they SHOULD have
lcen. went hom and ate "a package of
blue ointment Tnis ACT was at 1880
owing TO The fact that the poison was
wrapped up in paper It failed 40 tax
effect for four hours. when she becam,
dcttnly ill Believing that She had accom-
lishcd her self-dostruction. the woman
called for Watkins ou what she thought
was her deathbed
81 have testified against him. she cried
over and over Il was forced 20 periur,
qysen"
IL wos on March that the troubl,
started The woman had call-d at Wat
hin's boarding house ia the morning He
husband dropped in accompanied by twD
men. Watkins states that the husban,
wanted 20 settle. although There was. th
lawyer declared nothing to settle. on
thing is sure. Neunemachor gave watkin
q terrible black eye. Watkins secured
team and fled Ncuneuncher pursue,
und caught the attorney three miles away
firing q bullet al him.
Watkins had Gan,ed three times witt
Mrs. Neuremaoher, who is beautiful
creature, the first night he met her. Wat
lins alleges that she lrieG to make en-
eagcmcnts win him later. hat that he re-
fused her advances and that he doesn'
know why she came to his home 1
March 6 unless It were TO put up the plo
Watkins formerly lived in Nemahom.
county. Nebraska and graduated from IN,
state Normal school al PERU lie de-
,ares hc viii sue Neuneniacher VIII,
IS said to be wealthy, for $4,000 DANA
ces.