The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-07-05
OKLAHOMA SHERIFF
"SEES" NEW YORK
Tells His Experiences With
Jerome and Not
ableS.

BARTLESVILLE, /. T., July 5.-Wil-
liam Grace. sheriff of Pottawatomie
county. Okla, has returned 10 his home
from New York, after an unsuccessful
attempt to bring back with him w. E.
Clark. who is wanted for obtaining
money under false pretenses from an
Oklahoma citizen. Clark was dismissed
from custody on habeas corpus proceed
ings instituted. Sheriff Grace and VIII
liam Travers Jerome appeared before
the court in response TO the request 10
show cause why Clark should not be set
free.
Bill Grace was the center Of an ad-
miring throng when he returned to mis-
home this morning.
Tells Experiences.
Well, boys" he said TO the county
officers at the courthouse, Il have
been up to old New York and had
great time Saw more in three days
than you could read about all summer
L went to the first officer 1 saw
when 1 got off the ferry and said: L
have come for my man.. He sized me
up and asked me TO come 10 the sta
ton; sr vent and pretty soon they told
noticed the crowd seemed pretty thick
around where l was, and finally two
plain-clothes men stepped up and asked
me TO come back to the station. The
chief told me there that complaint had
been filed against me by the traffic as
ISOLATION or some such organization. He
asked me real nice TO lay of my hat
and gun. To accommodate him / put
on little inch brim straw. but l felt
like Choctaw Indian drinking red lem
onade at a soda fountain.
Attorney Jerome and got real
chumny- He looks and acts like Ed.
Hood, Of Shawnee, only he don't make
his cigarettes and talks faster.
The Judge wept.
Can you taIk?' he says. And 1 told
him about the time / talked in wahnett
precinct and got the crowd so interest
ed that our boys did all of the voting
that was done that day. He said he
wanted ne to talk before the court. 1
sure talked. and 1 know you fellows
would have been pleased to have been
in my shoes. Why. one of the attorneys
told me afterward that it was the first
time he ever saw Judge Gildersleeve cry
IN public. / discussed everything from
the constitution of the Anti-Horse Thief
Association to the initiative and referen-
oum, and then the court decided against
me
Say. boys. there is a new star on that
GODDESS of Liberty out there I'm the bay
climbed up to the top and counted
these stars and there was only forty
five. So 1 just cut one for Oklahoma. I
got afraid that the monument would
blow over, sc ! came down But the star
is there all right, and Bill Grace has
done more to get you into the Union
than the whole constitutional conven-
ton
Untamed Car Hogs.
Il went up to Wall Street, but didn't
see any of the big bugs. because I
had used my stock cards when was
running for sheriff the last time
Those underground railroads were a
puzzle. The way those people fought
for seats beat anything I ever saw ex-
cept a Pottawatomie county barbecue. 7
saw Governor Hughes riding downtown
with a niger. He is all whiskers and
hat and don't amount 10 much accord
ing TO what Bill Jerome told me. l got
70 talking about our constitution at the
hotel and some fellow asked me what
brand OF bitters we took for Il. They
are pretty fresh guys back there. but
they amt fresh enough to keep Bin
Grace from putting another star in that
diadem around the Goddess of Liberty"