The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-26

never tried in SAID s'ayne county, and
the second one Is forgery even II
was tried IN said Payne county. Casa
In Lincoln county dismissed on motion
CT prosecutor; was held under bond
to grand jury. again indicted by ter.
ritory IN Logar county. asked chang
Of venue back to Tayne county but
.o,3 was ordered to Noble county
Oklahoma territory This last indict
ment was found by territorial grand
jury. was returned iato Logan county
conrt willie court was convened and
sitting as a United States district
cour. Sec section . Of organic act for
OBlahona territory
was brought into court and roqur.
ed TO plead when couct was sitting as
United States district court, change
.of venue was ordered by the judge
while sitting as q DATED States district
court therefore no lawful change of
venue was ordered because the judge
while sitting as Uuited States dis.
trict court can not take jurisdiction Of
ar indiciment found by the territorial
grand jgry This last indictment was
found March. 1894. and was forced
ito trial in Noble county in December,
iS9l before the judge &hhe sitting as
a United States district court. and the
journal eatry shows that court as
United states district court each and
every day during the attempted trial
beginning Dec 7th and ending Dec
18Th 1894 The clerk of said Noble
county. Oklahoma territory then is.
sued a SO called committmant which
purports TO be a copy of the Judgment
IS per journal entry and made such
csmmiumaut TO snow that action was
held in the district coun for Noble
couny. Oklahoma territcry This so
called commitments is forgery is
false on is iscs. is not a commitment
suh as is required by spccidc statutes
ir Oklahoma statutes On this forged
SO called conmuimapa ! was incarcer
ated in the Kansas state pc, .entiary
March 2S, 1876, a penitenuary desig.
mated by the 40 called committmant. a
pelitcntlary which was not a lawfully
constituted prison for Oklahoma terri.
tory. because the governor Of Oklaho.
ma territory failed to comply with law
and had not made contracts with the
proper authorities Of Kansas to keep
Oklahoma prisoners. On this so called
committmant | was put in custody OF
men who were not designated as the
Officers to execute, as per so called
commitment Men who were not
qualified officers of Oklahoma terri
tory. men who had not taken oath of
Office as repaired IN section IA, organic
act for Oklahoma. Men who by rob
berry, forgery and perjury kept me from
getting facts before the court and get
ting released by habeas corpus action
Men who held me in peonage, and com.
PEELED me TO labor even when the law
Of Oklahoma territory. nor the so call
sd sentence OF court did not put labor
upon me But l state here that the
goyelnor Of Oklahoma territory. had
entered into a conspiracy with Kansas
men to enslave me Ira n. Ter1iH. and
hundreds of others who were kid
mapped from Oklahoma into Kansas by
unlawful means and without due pro
cess Of law Imprisoned in Kansas.
Governor 4. Z. Ferguson is now a par
ty TO conspiracy TO enslave citizens
of Oklahoma territoiy every time
tried 70 SGT relief by habeas corpus
the clerk, OF Noble county court, J. f
Pickard would and did make falslaed
copies OF record and the attorney gon-
eral Of Oklahoma would and did use
such faisifed copies to deceive the
court and defeat justice. charge hat
Judge b. T. Hainer is accessory after
th fact 10 the crime ef making false
copies Of the Oklahoma county court
I records. AT last by the help of my
daughter. Cora p Terrill I got posi-.
] tive proof that the said j. 4 Pickard
had made papers TO De used as evil
dence TO convict me and filed motion
60 reopen and rehear case before Judge
Gilpatrick az Leavenworth, Kas. while
this motion was pending I was kid.
mapped back into Oklahoma and out of
the courts jurisdiction by Sheriff John
l.. McGehee of Noble county OMaho
ma. and am now held in the jail Of
said Noble county by said sheriff
now charge Governor Ferguson, John
l.. McGehee, Judge y. r. Halne- It al
whose names / can not now give with
conspiracy 10 deprive me. Ira n. Ter.
rill, OF liberty without due process or
law. with the crime OF kidnapping. I
charge J. e. Pickard with using the
seal of the Noble county court 10 verify
statements and with fixing. L.
charge Judge b. T. Homer. sherih Nc
Gehee, Attorney General p. G. simons.
.ex-Artorney General J. c. Roberts. ct
al, with being accessories to the crime
.oi forgery.
Now Mr. President. as I am oeing
unlawfully deprived Of nay liberty AID
denied lawful recourse by the above