The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-04-02
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and | went to Fort Smelling, Minneso
| ia, and was in the army four months
and I was discharged on account q
disability On account Of this foot
got a bad foot.
@. How did you cut it? A. With
an AK was cutting a limb off a
peach tree and l raised up the AK
and the limb over the top caught me
and hit the foot and cut it across like
that (indicating). And then after
was discharged there I went down
back into Oklahoma and through In
dian Territory and then l got with a
few roughs and toughs there, and |
went from there to Chicago with them
and got on West Madison street and
We got into some deviiment there.
@. Where did you first get into
trouble? A. Broke into a jewelry
shop in Chicago, West Madison street
was the first crooked work
@. What did you do? A. Broke
into a jewelry store, took paper and
put molasses on it and put it up
against the window and showed it in.
All the glass stuck to the paper, and
it didn't make any noise, and that
was in the first part of 1905, and we
came back then up through Missouri,
and then we came back around the
edge of Missouri to Fort Scott, Kan
sas, and at Fort Scott, Kansas, we
stole eighteen head of horses and took
the horses across to Coffeyville, Kan
sas, and sold them for fifteen hundred
dollars and month after that we
got caught. And I was sent to Jeffer-
son penitentiary and we was there a
month and cut out and left and then
1 got into trouble again down at
went back down to Oklahoma and
down to - and went over to
the capitol of Indian Territory, and
back to Fort Gibson, and I got mar
ried there, that is about the middle
of 1905.
@. Is that the wife you have now?
A. NO.
@. Is Jefferson City the penitenti-
airy? A. Yes, for the state of Mis-
souri, We was in there a month and
we cut out and ran away and I went
back to Indian Territory and I was
married to my stepmother's sister,
her name was Jessie Switzer then.
She had been married before and her
husband died and she was % years
old and I stayed with her about
month an half and got $4,000 from
her and I left.
@. Did she know you were going?
A. Yes.
@. Is she living yet? A. Yes, she
is married. After I left, and her old
man left, and she married again since
then.
@. You got $4,000, she gave it to
you? A. Yes.
@. Then where did you go? A. I
went there up to Coffeyville again and
then I got with another fellow there
by the name of Florence Williams.
@. Who was in with you at Jeffer.
son City? A. Calude McGaughey.
He is in Havre, Montana, now think
and we went over to Coffeyville and
I got with this other fellow and we
went from there down to the capital
of Oklahoma, Guthrie then, it was, !
guess it is now if it amt changed
since it was admitted as state, and
we went out to Blue Stars ranch
Twelve lilies east Ol OuIul4c dAu olOAO
twenty-seven head Of cattle and sold
them in Guthrie for $4,000 and lot
of hogs we had along, forgot the
number, I guess it must have been
about thirty head, and we got sent to
the reform school and my father new
er knew I had been sent to the pen
itentiary and 1 got sent to the reform
school at Benton, Missouri, and
stayed there eight months and that
was the first part of 1906.
@. Did you get away from there
A. My father got me out. l got out
of Superintendent Drake was
the man running that. He is running
the Iowa reform school now. I went
home and stayed couple of weeks
and I come up here and I started
blind pigging around here and I met
this Aleck Moran and I was with
Aleck pretty near all the time then
until I got sent to the pen for blind
plugging. was caught in Washburn
and served ninety days and two hun
dred dollars fine, and I was sentenced
by Judge Winchester; an l was SEN
tence under Judge Cowan at Devils
Lake and got a year in the pen.