The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-05-03
GANG OF AMERICANS
WORKED DEADLY GRAFT
Insured Lives Of Victims
Who Were Put Out of
Way With POiSiOn
tBy Associated Presa.)


loss an appeal to President Diaz Is,
productive of executive clemency,
which ID regarded rs improbable. this
city will be the scene within the next
two weeks of the execution Of two
Americans, G. 7. Richardson and viii
liam Mason. They were convicted of
murGcslng two men here for life insur.
ance money. Richardson being the i'm
siranee agent. and Mason. his broth.
iRiaw. an assistant agent BY order
Of The court they are to be shot to
death G. s. Harlan. the examining
physician and the third member of
tho conspiracy, is also under sentence
Of death
The case has occupied tho Mexican
courts for the past five years and one
Of the most extraordinary In the Grim
lhal annals of the republic The two
victims of the conspiracy were a man
named DCycrs dccoycd from El Paso.
and man named Mitchell said to
be half-brother OF Mason.
The prime mover in the plot was
Rlchardson, whose real name is HgI
bert. He was . Rochester lawyer who
ran away TO Mexico with seven indict
nicnts hanging over his head for run
|ning a divorce fhfll" Mitchell was
epether Rochester lawyer who follow
cd him later With the help OF DIR
Harlc, of Chihuahua. they poisoned
thcir victims With stryelnine aftci
having insvred their lives in New
York company for $4,000
After the murders the gang, except
Harle, moved to Texas. Suspicion
was aroused. and a detective was sent
10 Texas. Posing as lumber mer
chant he worked into the intimacy
gith them He took part in another
plot to steal $50.C1Q and had himself
arrested with the others. Besides
The men there were two women mix
cd up IN tho affair.
The discovery OF the insurance plot
vas quite accidental In the fall OF
/ 1902, while looking over some Mexi
| fan policies the s0licltor-general Of
he insurance company IN New Yorl
aoticed peculiar coincidence IN tive
chihuahua claims. The claims came
| Trough the same agent, richardson
scre certified by the same doctor
Harle. aud In both cases DR., Harl'
had been the examining physician
The mon had both died after shors
Illnesses One Of them Harry Mitch
III, insured for $4,000, had died or
Febrrery II: aud the other james
nevers, who was insured for $4,000
lied on February %. Yet the Mitch
! II claim was presented In February
md the Deycrs claim not Until July
! "A both cases the inscred had no othe'
elativc than the beneficiary. In tho
lrst case the beneficiary was HUI
mri's wife; In the second ease Il wa
| 'Nilllam Mitchell who posed as De
ver's half-hrother.
Upon Investigation II was showl
hat the men had died and had beei
buried as stated. II wasn't case O.
| hurying thn rocks on the company.
rhon the check fer the Devers CLAIM
came back TO the NewYork bank l.
was endorsed by c. T. ri hardson
| thorwise Hulburt Tho other hat
bcon previously paid TO his wife, th'
u-rdercd Harry Mltchell's sister
After the crowd had removed 70
DALLAS, Texas, detective named GRAY
vas sent to Dallas in the guise OF
umber merchant lie slcceeded II
meeting lIalburt and after the tw,
had become intimate Hulburt breach
a scheme to cheat the INSURANCE
company out of $4,000 he said h,
had had experience. Detective Gray
proposed that they insure Gray'i
brother-in-law for $4,000 as a begin
ling. A detective named Evans wa
imported by Gray as his brotherin
law. When the scheme had beer
thoroughly worked up and all tbs pr,
imlnary steps taken the whole eroN
mding Gray was arrested A fe
DH detective of his had already Over
leara Mitchell aud Hulburt schemin
O kill OF Gray. by accident in th
rison at ri Paso. Mitchell discover
d what Gray really WAS.
Mitchell at once went iRto 4 cata
eptic ~ that listed Two mouths Med
cal exports watched him, and deela1
q thSi he was shamming But all IN
lseaI tests failed lie paid not ihe
iiEh,est attention 20 needles stucl
hall an inch into his foot He was
lropped into = tank OF cold water and
sank 20 the bottom stlfl His teeth
we're cienched auh he was fed on milk
introduced thrOugh bis nose by 81
slass trbe. Finally the detectives hi
pom the Idea Of missing whisky with
he milk The man became drunk
lninped from his bed, and cursed a
kaTbodt IA esahl.
Finally. DR. Iiar'e. who was silll Il
chIhuahra. WIS induced 10 cross tht
border and was arrested He wa