The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-09-30
IWACOMLOAD or STOLEN
GOODS IN THEIR POSSESSION
Looted Homes Of indians Who
are Away on Camping
Expeditions
(By Leased WlreD

Lawton, Okla, Sept. 30.--That Jesse
James novels do active harm in the
way of corrupting youths, came in for
substantial proof, when Will Ehelby
and Charles V. Johnson, alias VIII
VIII Shelby and Chasles Smith. two
boys OF about seventeen years. admit
ted before the county attorney ana
Judge Armstrong that they had start
ed on maurading expedition, plan
ming to become real bandits inspired
by reading Jesse James novels.
The boys are the ones captured last
Saturday morning by the city police
IL pos esslon OF a whole buggy lo0d
Of Indian goods, reyolyers, and trim
kets, which they now conf IS they had
stolen from innunl Indian
houses In the region il -le Wichita
mountains. The boys had thoroughly
woven stories patched up to tell the
lawyers but after the one had broken
down and resolved to tell the truth
the second boy corroborated his story
exactly The boys will plead guilty
Saturday morning and receive pen
lteltlary sentences
The First Story.
The first story told by the boys was
TO the effect that the Shelby boy had
started TO Iawton. caught a ride with
. farmer with whom the second boy
was riding and that in this manner
they had become acquainted They
related that they had purchased the
Indian goods and that they were plan
ming TO sell them for what profit they
could in Lawton. The first boy told
the story very plainly clinchIng eacn
point SO thoroughly that he could not
be tangled in CROSS questioning. La.
Ter. howefor. under stress from bis Ia
ihcr he decided to tell the truth and
labelling il SO, told an entirely differ
cnt story.
Looted Many Houses.
He said that he had been reading
Jesse James stories and that inspr-
ed by the brave deeds OF the heroic
bandit had decided to become ger-
tleman bandit himself. lie lad met
the boy. Charles Johnson but a few
days before aud together the two had
started out TO loot Indian houses on
a wholesale score.
They procured buggy from tue
stable cf Shelby's father aud with
pistols to protect themselves, and a
long harrow tooth fof a pry they loot
ed innumeraDle Indian houses. Mo-
Of the Indians are away now camping
near the indian schools where they
have placed their children in school
and accordingly the young bandits
had easy picking. They began with
The first house they came to and rob.
bed and piundered all day "Wednesday
Thursday and Friday AZ lhc end OF
this time they had pilfered so many
houses that they can not now recount
them They mad secured magy arti.
cles OF value, from pretty squaw leg
/ gins to great brass covered oelts aud
numerous heavy reyolvers BY this
time their grips and buggy were load
/ cd. They came to the city and arriv-
! ing early In the moraing, out of money
and hungry. they sold saddle for Is
cents and got breakfast. They were
1 in the act Of displaying their wares
TO j second hand man when they vert
taken into custody by the police.
Short Cut to Penitentiary.
The story from the time the young
bandits started out until they land in
the penitentiary is short one Start.
ing on Wednesday Of last week they
I robbed three days, were arrested Sat
urday morning, had trial on Monday
and Tuesday and Saturday they will
be sentenced to the state peniteniary
for burglary