The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-22
pONTOTOG G0URTY
HAS ANOTHER CRIME
EnOImity Of Criminal Record
StaTtIGS Community Into
Aggressive Action


Special 20 Daily Leader
Ada, OKLA July - WILLIAM Mutt
was remanded 10 uu without bond
for t1st degree murder by Judge "A.
j Brown who conducted me prelm.
mary hearing thH afternoon SUIT
Is charged with killing + Il Morrow
n local hotel when Nutt found his
Aile and Morrow together in the no.
el lobby Tuesi9n night The trag
'dy was Witnessed by several who
eslIdcd to the murder
Pontotocs record of murders and
nohs was augmented Tuesday night
when am unarmed and wholly de-
tenselcss man was shot to death by
an cnraged niermarued citizen
whose wife had loft him The victim
VAS talking a. he murderers wife in
he corridor Of thc Byrd hotel in this
city.
y S Morrow, aeed 81, ana time
,eoper for "a sewage construction
ompan. his home al Kansas city
,lo was the victim. William Mutt
ne slayer, his wife he cause
Morrow. Who rs married man,
boarded al The hotel and Mrs. Mutt
has also been stopping at the hostel
" since leaving her husband Three
,ther guests Weec standing near the
counter whore Morrow and the WOm-
IN We're talking together Mutt en-
cred The room, but stood near the
nirnce His first words were
What are you two doing 2'
Morrow did not know the man and
VAS unconcerned but the woman
realized She was IN danger ana made
III attempt to cry ont
Mutt jcrked a l5-calibre Colt auto
Matte revolver from his pocket and
commenced firing Morrow seemed
O have made an effort to preserve
his life as he turned his right side
oWard his assai.ant, tafowing his
lrm against his side Each bullet
vent through me arm into the body,
he Mssourian being dead before
n, one could reach him. He never
poke. and subsequent disclosures
eyea he must have died without
he least knowledge for cause of the
nurderous assault.
Mutt ran from he hotel, apparent
n0t locking 40 the man after he
ell. paying no attention to the wom-
IN who was too terrified to leave the
oom.
The murderer wenl TO the livery
)arn he conducted and gave his re-
Oliver to the boy he had left in
barge. Starting back toward the
lOtel he was accosted by Deputy
Sheriff Walter Coin and Policeman
Noster Wao ordered him to throw up
is hands Mutt offered no resist
nee to arrest and was taken directly
0 the county JAIL
Mite Visited Him.
Morrow had been down to Mill
reek for his company and there his
Dung Wife visited him the same day
e was murdered. lie had just re-
urned TO the work at Ada, taking
he evening meal and stepped into
he office. whore The conversation
started that ended in his death.
Did Not Know Woman.
Following the shooting Mrs. Mutt
sworn statement uttlditu sue
rad never known Morrow and the
onveisauon Of that evening was
heir first Others at the hotel de-
lare Morrow was an exemplary hus
and The woman is a Choctaw and
wealthy
\ Bloody Record.
Assassinations in ponrotoc since
he first of the year and the lynch
ne OF four alleged assassins by a
hob have placed the county and
his city iu a NEST unenyiable light
darshal Zeke Putnam of Allen. was
illed. exUnited Staies Marshal Gus
Bobbitt was shot from ambush, and
| Mrs. Frank Scrbner was shot while
she was sitting AT the window Of her
living room i'm her home. A mob
lvnehed the Eobbbt enemies who had
been arrested for his murder. and
one of the Seribners has been sent.
enced to death for the killing Of Put,
nam Another prominent citizen was
declared not guilty. of murder ny a
Jury. and Judge West denounced tho
jury and the prisoner from the bench