The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-04-26
ENACTED IN ARDMoRE AND VI.
cINITY IN PAST TWO WEEKS
TWO men And A WOMAN
Prime neipals-openirg Scene in Court
House in TeSss-Marriaee Divorce.
Reconciliation and Separation.
Then Court.


affairs that would make drama that
would seem unreal but yet the hap
penngs occurred. The principal actors
in this drama are a farmer and his
wife in Texas, an old westcrner and
troEtiersman Of this section Of the
country and court room scene in
reXas on two ocas;Cns, and scene
u a farm house near this city a
week or so ago. a scene in the Office
of the justice of the peace in this
city yesterday. The actors of this
drama, are +. NJ. Tucker, better
known as Butcher Knife Tucker,
Butcher Knife fuckers wife, and
James Baxter, recently discharg,
from the Texas penitentiary. located
at Rusk, Texas
\ number of years ago, about ten
or twelve years ago one James Bax-
ter, Sr was tried by jury OF his
peers in Cooke county, Texas, and con
victed of incest and was sentenced
to serve twenty years in the peni-
tentiary at Rusk, Texas, at hard
labor, at that time Baxter was about
45 or 46 years old. Within the past
few days on account of the good
behavior Of the prisoner he was re.
..Yfa L.. A L,
a few years after Baxter was in
the penitentiary, his wife brought
suit for divorce, alleging that her
husband was serving a term in the
penitentiary convicted of felony
The courts Of Texas granted the di
yorce. Immediately after having Sc
cured the divorce Mrs. Baxter mar
ried +. NJ. better known as Butcher
p Knife Tucker and came to the then
Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, and
, the couple lived happily together as
man and wife until Saturday, April
is, 1908.
The second chapter may be said to
have opened in the drama then, the
scene shifted from quiet country
+. home near Ardmore to this city. Jas
4 Baxter, better known as Jim Baxter
= the divorced husband of Mrs Butch
r er Knife Tucker, now comes upon
/ the scene
I Immediately upon the release OF
Jim Baxter from the penitentiary, jim
) hunts up his former wife, and find,
u that since his incarceration in prison
his wife had married Butcher KnifC
Tucker. Jim Baxter, as soon as he
arrives In Ardmore. goes to the home
OF Tucker near here to see his for
mer wife, and there states his case
In the meantime Butcher Knife hear.
of this, and arms himself with gur
and hunts Baxter. While Tucker wa
standing at one of the corners oI
a main thoroughfare in the city,
stranger approaches him, lays hi,
l hand on his shoulders and asks
C rs this Butcher Knife Tucker T,
r which Tucker replies, Yes" Ther
Jim Baxter says, Well, my name Il
Jim Baxter the man for whom yol
are cunning, md you have my wife
I whom love dearly" A few words
passed with the final agreement tina
the two men go out to Tucker
house and let the woman choose tn,
I man she had rather live with, botl
claiming to love her, No sooner haC
the agreement been reached than aC
/ ton was taken thereon, and the tw,
men go out to where the woman wa
at home, fuckers house, TO let he
decide as 10 who she loved best, ans
with whom she wanted to live.
The scene on this Saturday after
noon then switches from the stree
corner in Ardmore TO the home O
Butcher Knife Tucker. When the tw
men get to the house both stan
up, one beside the other and stat
= their cases, both ayerring to low
Ah' NOHldut tllt Ol4t ufllfI lHdN III
I other The woman looks upon the tw
men and decided that inasmuch a
Baxter is the handsomest she prefer
ed him to Tucker, although Tucke
had been kind and loving TO he
since they had welded, some te
! years ago, The curtain should b
drawn on the scene that transpire
at the Tucker home when the choiC
was made. but the story would NJ
be complet. were It drawn.
Immediately after the woman mad
her choice. Tucker began to tea
down the enlarged pictures that