The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-13

tney controlled, round II a game OF Oe-
ceit, found further that they had guar
anteed him that / was to vote against
the bill. He and I then and there shook
hands and agreed to see that All mem
bers who had promised to vote for the
bill had to do it or we would expose the
bribery in open session
The bill passed. Guthrie, with her
boosted $4,000 corruption fund. failed
to buy one member. I told this publicly
in Oklahoma within the statutes OF lin
itation, but lost my liberty and must
soon lose my life, because I thus in
CURED the ennity of the Guthrie -Dood-
lers.
They. the Guthrie boodlers, got an old
man drunk, who was, when drunk,
bad man, and who was at the time I'M
der a peace bond in a United States
commissioners court This man snot
and wounded me, and shot ana kllled
him. The fight took place on the 1ederai
reservation in Guthrie known as the
Land Office acre If 1 committed
crime. it was against federal authority,
and not against Oklahoma Territory
But was indicted for murder by a
territorial grand jury, took change OF
venue to Payne county. Went 70 trial
as soon as court convened, pleading SELL
defense. The trial resulted IN a huhS
Jury I gave bond and went home
was soon forced-tO trial at an unlawful
sitting of the court, over my motion tor
continuance to regular term; was
supposedly. convicted, denied a new trial
and / then appealed; gave required
bond; appeal was perfected. docketeo
and set for trial; then, without notice TO
me. was fraudulently dismissed by the
trial judge who tried the case IN tne
lower courts. Execution was ordered,
and / was executed and pronounced
civilly dead. being imprisoned IN the
Kansas state penitentiary-
at once began habeas corpus pro-
ceedings and the supreme court OF
Kansas found that I had never been
tried and must be released. instead
of releasing me, the SAID court OF
dered the Kansas warden to kldnap
me back into Oklahoma (See Fac
Reporter or Kansas Report for 1891
I was kidnapped and thrown into JAN
in Payne county, Q. Il, w l.9 trial
pearance bond and an appeal bond
either of which was good.
While my habeas corpus case was
pending in the Kansas courts, the
court clerk of Payne county, o. T..
forged a second lifetime commitment
against me. The first purported 70
enanate from judgment of the April,
Der, 1892. terms of court. This forged
second commitm ent was secretly and
fraudulently filed in the Kansas state
penitentiary-
homa, the territory pretended to again
indict me for the same and sole al
legged offense. and forced me to appear
before a moot court at Perry Noble
County,. u. l.. winch county Is NOT anu
never was a part of the judicial dis
trict where the alleged crime was
committed. I now stand committed
upon forged paper purporting to IS
sue from the district court of Noble
county, o. T. There is no record in
said Noble county of my ever having
been indicted, arraigned. tried, con-
Victed or sentenced by and in said
court. In 1899, I got a certificate un-
der seal from the clerk of court in
said Noble county showing that there
is no record and that the process
wherein I am held is forgery
Armed with this proof. I asked the
Kansas state penitentiary officials for
permission to petition for a writ OF
habeas corpus and for answer was
placed in a dark cell and kept in close
during which time the Kansas state
officials robbed me of the above men
toned certificate and of other valuable
property. Getting no help from
Warden Jewett, ! appealed to the state
penitentiary directors and then to
Governor Stanley. Stanley referred
me to the directors. Again getting no
help from the directors, / wrote to
Postoffiee Inspector Robert Fulton, of
Kansas City Mo, and then to my
brother. H. c. Terril. of Oswego
Kan, but Warden Jewett kept both Of
these letters from being mailed.
At last I made petition to the SUI
preme court of Kansas for a writ of
habeas corpus, and in my petition
stated the facts of the robbery and
asked for certain Kansas state peui-
Tertiary and ex-state penitentiary Of
fcers to be subpoenaed, duceS tecum,
and required to bring my papers into
court. Subpoenas We're not issued,
and at the hearing of my petition
Warden z. B. Jewett and his counse.
used a forged paper purpOrtlng to be
a journal entry to back up their
forged commitment, and thus defeated
me by deceiving the court
This forged, so-called, journal entry
was secretly filed, and without my
knowledge, but after the trial Su-
preme Court Clerk D. A Valentine. of
Topeka, Kan, put me in possession of
the forged paper 1 now have the
forged paper, and, by help of a law
yer. I have made ten copies of IL I,
in March. 1904, through you and by
the aid of Judge Hainer, of Perry, o.
T, again secured a certificate under
seal from the clerk of Noble county,
which proves that there is no record
there against me, that I was never
tried there at all. But, since getting
this certificate, Jewett has, by fraud
and force, prevented me from getting
facts before the court.
Warden z. B. JeWett having used
forged papers in evidence, having re-
peatedly robbed my mail, knowing that
his so-called commitment is a forgery
and having conspired to hold me in
prison and peonage. and having the
connivance of a high federal judge, |
who, through his near relatives, are
running the largest factory within the
prison walls, and Jewett being, there
fore, held immune from arrest for
conspiracy to enslave Oklahoma men
and women. said Jewett knowing that
I will. if ever free from duress, prose- |
cute the conSpirators, forgers and |
robbers; is now numbering me by I'M |
lawful torture. Cora I beg you to
save my life by publishing this state |
ment at once.
Your father, I. n. TERRILL.