Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-09
MAN ACCUSED Of CAFES MURDER
 PROSPEROUS
Alexander Jester, Who Was Arrested and Tried for Kill ing Brother of the Million aire, Has Farm in N, M.

ALlBUQUERQUE, N. M.. June S. waste country. but what is irrigable Peace and comfort are in store for the last days Of Alexander Jester, the man who was indicted, tried ad ac- quilted, for the murder of Wm. Gates, brother of John W. Gates. million aire. Jester. until two months ago. was a resident of Wichita, Kan. nos has a pension of s20 per month and a good farm in New Mexico. upon which to depend,
 testers Career
 In the early seventies Alexander Jester was a resident of Sedgwick county, Kansas. In some w@y he se- cured freak buffalo calf and made a business of taking IL around over the country for exhibitions. It was while Alexander Jester was on one of these expeditions that he met wm. Gates near Nevada Mo.
 Murder of Gate1
 Gates was travelling in a wagon over the roate to California for the pur- pose of benefiting his neRtth. He was well equipped, driving a fine team of horses, and having plenty of money and provisions for his journey. Short iy after Gates and Jester met, Gates body was found in river. The head had been severed entirely from tis body. Everything pointed toward Jester as the murderer. as he had tAe team that belonged to Gates.
 Escapes From Jail
 Jester was arrested and imprisoned in the county jail at Nevada, Mo, but he escaped by breaking jail be- fore the trial occurred. Nothing more was heard of him or many years, although search was made by !. w Gates, brother of the murdered man, who i3 now a millionaire, presi- dent of the American Steel and Wire company Of Chicago. J. w. Gates has been making untiring efforts for almost thirty years to apprenend Jes- ter. but had never obtained the least clue as to his whereabouts
 On testers Trial
 Charles Simmons was sheriff of Sedgwick county Kansas, in 1897. He received letter rom the sister of Jester. which stated something 10 this effect: | "I am living at Shawne, Okla. with my brother, Alexander Jester, who is murderer. He is guilty of murder ing William Gates, almost thirty years ago. g
 Jester had assumed the name of Hill after he had escaped from iail and had located at Shawnee. Okla 1 No one there kenw hIm, but he lived ! in constant dread of being brought 1 to trail by Gstes.
 Located in Oklahoma. Hill had married and had raised a | family of children. but at the time of | his arrest he was a widower and was | living in a small house at Shawnee with his sister, each having an equal | share in it
 Jester. alias Hill was going to get again and told his sister that ] when he got married she would have to leave the place. This so incensed her that when she was cast from her ] nome she notified Sheriff Simmons.
 Kidnapped by Millionaire.
 Sheriff Simmons notified John W. 5ates of Chicago, and steps were talk sn immediately to have Jester arrest d Millionaire Gates took the mat CT personally in charge and with the lid of the Pinlzerton force. went to Shawnee. arrested Jester and carried Jim of to Nevada Mo, without eyer waiting for eXtraditioa Saners.
 Speedily Acquitted.
 When Jester came to trial his at orney made the plea that there was men who was poor and had lived an ipright life for thirty years Now he vas prosecuted and persecuted by a nan who was fourteen times a million l, lire The jury was only out a short time md brought in verdict of mot guil- y."
 Jester spent the past winter in his Id home county. When the last con sress passed bill raising the pen l. ions of old soldiers. Jester got a rsis~ i. O s2e month. In March, a sos testers. who lives at Moriarty, oI | his father that a cls' -N M 'e filed on in that vicinity .m could l make him a comfortaP that would | he remainder of his -ie home for l
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