The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-06-04
TERRILL SAYS
CONSPIRACY
COMPLAINS THAT HE is UELAW
FULLY DETAINED.
Being Held IN Actual Slavery While
IN Prson-oeelares That ES-oov.
ernor Ferguson ana Others
Are Responsible.
Perry. okla. June 9. 1906
To Governor Frank Frantz.
Guthrie. Oklahoma

F. 20 gHAfi.f IuiF q fNN
/ To Governor Frank Frantz.
4 Guthrie. Oklahoma.
Governor:
I declare unto YOU that am nov
J being Imprisoned ln the jail Of No
bic county. Oklahoma Territory. By
Sheriff John l. McGehee under a writ
ten conspiracy signed by John L Nc
Gehee. W a Parker Jasper Anson
and X ]. Howe. Of Noble County. Ok.
i1homa Territory, and Ex-Governor
IT. B Ferzuson Of said territory.
which conspiracy was entered into
on or about September 27th. 1905. a
copy OF which conspiracy YOU can per.
haps find 10 Hles OF your ofilce The
above named cCnspirators had nor
hayc no legal commitment or other le.
gal process 70 authorize them or any
one OF them 20 imprison me Said
ccnsplrators are by force and fraud
preventing me from making lawful
complaints to the courts OF The land
charging said conspirators and others
with crimes
Said conspirators have by the use
OF forged and false papers In evidence
and By open and wilful perjury pre-.
vented me from getting relief from
the courts b. habeas corpus proceed.
ings
Said consplrators and others. by
force and fraud. now prevent me from
prosecuting ox.district court clerk Jay
=. Plckard for the crime OF "falsify.
ing evidence" IN violation OF section
! 2OO5 al the 1898 statutes of o. T,
which false evidence was used 10 mis-.
lead courts ad defeat justice, Ia my
habcas corpus actions
declare TO you that said conspi.
raiors and others caused me TO be
held In actual slavery In the Kansas
state penitentlary from March the
23rd. 1896. 10 September the 2Cth,
1906. and that said conspirators and
others then kidnapped me into Okla
homa Territory and imprisoned me In
the above said Jail.
I declare TO you that | was held In
atyna slavery i'm above said pen
itentiary as above stated under sew
eral written consplracies 20 onslave
me. which several conspiracies were
signed by governors OF Oklahoma Ter.
ritory and officers OF the state OF
Kansas,
declare 10 you that was held In
actual slavery In above said peniten.
uary from March the 23rd, 1896, 70
some time in 1903. under conspiracies.
and that during this period OF time
Kansas officers had no power TO con-
tract or consplre with governors a
Oklahoma Territory. that In January,
1908. the legislature OF Kansas de
clared an emergency and passed an
act to authorize Kansas ofiiccr7 TO
contract. for certain purposes with
proper officers Of Oklahoma Terri
tory: tha. since ,he passage of said
emergency act a governor Of Okla
homa has conspired with Kansas on
GERS t. continue euslaying me and
others.
declare to YOU that prior To tho
passage Of said emergency act that
no contract could be or was made
which could or dld bind either Kan
sas or Oklahoma Territory, for reas
ons. to.wit.
First. There were not two parties
competent to contract, who signed the
So called contract.
Second Liberty from the custody
of upon Its face provide for the estah
fishing and maintaining of slavery In
J the state of Kansas In violation o'
tho constitution and laws cr the Unit
ed states of America, and was fo'
] that reason absolutely void
declare 10 You that even had
heen lawfully .ricd. convicted and
sentenced. | could not and should
net have teen Imprisoned In the state
of Kansas until af,e. lawful contract
had been made IN compliance with
Chapter Ga OF the 1898 stat OF q. T
declare 20 you that even had beer
Lawfully incarcerated In the Kansas
state penitentiary | could not be and
should not have been held In slavery
because the law, section POST Of the
1898 Stat. of q T, does not make la
hor a part OF the punishment for the
crime OF which the forged so-called