The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-23
HELD A FASCINATION
FOR MANY WOMEN
Many Letters Found ON Person
VO#IDg Deepest AifGC-
lion for Man

Tulsa, okla, Ma.ch 23- Having
vlfc ana two-moathsoI5 baby in
destitute circumstances iii Illinois,
and having in his possession when
arrested more than a scare Of letters
wtich ne had received from different
women in various narts Of the coun
us, W. r. Bredlove was ar osted by
Cf.icer l.aatz, of the city police force
"a On advice received from Princeton
Eentucky, NJ which place he is want
sd for forgery.
Later investigation shows mat
Hreilota has also swiudled large
number OF local parties ont Of dif
lerent sums Of money and since the
alnQuncenen, OF Ills arrest, q number
a pc sons have called at the CITY
iaii ana Identified the prisoner as be-
ine the man who obtained money
from them on bad checks recent5
Il is thought that he entire amouut
Ct money obtained in this manner ID
Tulsa by Bredl0ve viii amount "a
more than q thousand dollars In all
probability the prisoner viii be tuFn
"a over to the county authorities 70.
day upon The charge oil obtaininR
mcney under false pretenses, follow
iug the filing OF information TO this
eifeci With County Attorney Brecken
ridge by number of his victims
ocal officers will probably refuse
10 turn the man over 10 the Kentuckl
authorities until he has been tried NJ
en- die charges which face him here
A checke-ed career must have char
acteriZed the lie led by Bredlovf
and ii documents and evidence iii Tho
hands Of the police are to be taker
as an indication the prisane- is
,critable human ficnd and deserves
the worst punishment undor the law,
A few weeks ago Chief Of Police
Thompson received a letter from Mrs
Kate Bredlove of Mario, H.. in whici
& pathetic appeal was made TO the 20
Zee officials to locate her husbarI
Sho had cruelty deserted her Th'
women tod Of how after the death o
her father, who was formerly chic
/ Of police in a Missouri town, that sh'
and her mother had been left wl,l
FIVE children TO take care Of
She related her meeting with Bred
love at Arlmore, Okla. how he ha'
represented himself 20 be a well u
et salesman and after he had pronis
eli her everything in the world sh
wanted had enticed her into marryin
him A few months afterward, a'
eording 10 the letter he had sent he
home TO her widowed mother in
linois, where the child was born L
her soon afterwards.
with God as my judge, | swea
that have always been virtuous, an
can see no reason why the ma
should have 50 cruelty deserted IN
and his child without any support /
tire world And now that hav
found out the dual life he has bee
living pray God that you may fin
HIM AMI give him the penalty he d.
serves or else make him support hi
Clild,' are tine words the wife use
III her letter
Urged 20 Immediate action by h
atbeiic appeal Chief Thompson l'
rcdiately began an investigation
tbt ease and liuallt acaled Lreaio'
tiroU8h ono of bis swce.hearis mc'
toned IN t.e letter as stay ing az th
So Regis ruQmins house iu this cit
lY The meantime .oc4i authorities Al
cceNod word f,0m the police
( r.no0n Ky, aaf lhc man Was san
el there upon tire charge of iofseF
.n3 an preparations were made
rCsurn tar prisoner 10 that pi4c'
when his alleged deeds in this cit
Nero brought io ligh ARA it was i'
cided to hold him for lial on tires
charges before urning him Owe
the Kentucky authorities
on Bredlotcs person when WTo9
~ was uumheT q letters which b.
ha received from women in all part
oj the country aad several blank
which he ha5 iIiipd out 10 be sent {
matrimonial bureau for the pu
pcse Of getting in communicate
wan 0the women IN hese blank
Erednyc stated tia his annual in
COME was fsom $4,000 to $4,000
YEAR His photo was also inclose
with tire blanks. some OF which weI
al ready tc mail and probably woul
rave been had moi the arrest oocu
Cd when il did The prisoner ais
rad IN hls pocket a fake bank d
~ sit hoQS ia which he had entere
IA his own hand writing q number {
figures which conveyed the impre
SION the ne had deposited large sam
~ money az different times It wa
With ibis book. think the police, fhs
leedlove hycrred money on check
ehich Ne pe cd cn Tnlse parties an
with which he would also gain th
good graces Of the scores Of wome
whom he lnveigled into belieyin
that he was a capitalist
At The elty jail where he Is al pres
en- confined. Bfedlove Is stolid an
Indifferent ana refuses % talk COZ