The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-13
KILLED HIS SWEETHEART
Joseph BewIey's Crime Near
Bixby Mute Evidences
of the Crime.

spccioi to Danv Leader
p'Sss, :. T., oct. is.-This iRto town
sas deserted today, practically all the
inhabitants attending tho funerals OF
Miss Marguerite Lindsey and Joseph
Bewicy. VINO we're the victims Of the
tragedy near stone Blum school house
sunday night, when Bcwley murdered
Miss Lindsey because she refused TO
marry him. ana then Killed himself The
Bc7vioys and I.mdscys live less than a
block apart and the families are con-
tinualN visiting back and forth.
Later details OF the double killing
show beyond n reasonable doubt that
Bcwicy killed Miss Lindsey because she
would not marry him. lie had not only
told her and her relatives that he would
xiii her and do away with himself II shc
finally rejected him, but told one or two
o,ner persons in the town
In the face Of these threats. often re-
pcated % her Miss Lindsey. with
strange mixture OF faith IN the young
man and defiance OF death. kept on go
Ing with Bewlcy, writing to him once
or twice n week during the time she
WIS teaching school About two months
3go they quancled. and she told him he
could not return. but Bcwiey lmportunod
the girls mother until she told hcr
daughter to let him come buck.
Bewloy was % soldier IN she regular
army up TO the close Of the Spanish
American war and was fearless fight
or. He went TO the Philippines with the
SiSteenth infantry regiment from kan
sas and served three years. Upon his
return he opened barber shop H. Blk
oy and soon afterward formed the ao-
quaintanCe o. Miss Lindsey. They had
been keeping company more or less regu-
LARRY since that time Bliss Lindsey de-
clared repeatedly that she did not love
Bewley, and after their quarrel two
months ago only allowed him to return
on his promise that he would never men
tion the subject Of marriage to her again
Sunday Bewley sang in the Baptist
choir and, while engaged in the worship,
was evidently planning the details Of
the tragedy Miss Lindsey was also a
member OF the same choir but did not
attend church that morning At
o ocock Bewlty drove up to the Lindsey
home with livery rig and tolu Miss
Lindsey that ne would drive her to her
] DNAlANllE noAHt UN4tl AlAt GADAt AtAhlA
| school house. Before leaving she told
her mother that this was positively the
last time that she would ever so any
place with Bcwlcy and that IL he asked
her to marry him again she would give
him final negative answer
Later evidence shows almost concur
sivcly that Bewley shot Miss Lindsey
while they were sitting in the buggy in
! front OF her boarding house near the
school house The bullet entered her
right side aad ranged through the heart
and both lungs 81 direction that would
Indicate that she was sitting at his left
/ in the buggy and leaning away from
him. The bullet that had passed through
the girl also passed through the left arm
OF Bewley and lodged inside his coat
sleeve where it lme spent its force. II
+. IS evident that be placed his arm around
her waist and then fired the fatal bullet
into her side.
Indications are that after shooting the
girl, Bewloy alightcd from the buggy,
lifted the body Of the girl out, laid her
gen&,y upon the ground and zen smooth
ed out her clothing, as she vas found
/ lying in the road way With her hands
/ crossed as ~ she had been carefully alo
ont Il is believed snat he then watched
scr die before killing himself as quite
IA period elapsed between the time the
first shots were fired and the report OF
the last three. which evidently dis
patched Bewley.
| After watching her breathe her last
Bcwley evidently shot himself twice IN
the breast aud fcl TO the ground som'
I distance from Miss Lindsey Seeing thai
he was not dying rapidly enough. and
wishing TO spend his last moments By
her Side he dragged himself through
the sand almost entirely around the
I girls body laid his head down beside
her and then slashed open his OWE
tnroat with lis jack knife. The knife
was So dun it must have taken several
efforts 10 sever the windpipe and iugu-
liar vein which was the condition of IN,
body 'when found. A pool OF blood some
distoAce from Miss Lindseys body an,
"a bloody trail IA the dust 20 the girls
side whore The body was found lying
len. certainty TO this theory.