The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-05
Re TURNED HERE
FOR SAFE KEEPING
VARS -.-L COUNTY MURDER
SUSPECTS WAIVE pRELihiNi-
RN-sToRY OF CRIME

ae-m-- and J. ". Watts ana c. r
TAYLOR. vho vere taken 20 Madl.
yesterday morning Tor artalsnn.eu-
upon z murder charge. were returned
upon . later train to Ardmore To-
safe keeping The parties accused
al saiged preliminary e1amina IN.
and E--- held without bond 10 ne
di>1ric, court Of Marshall county.
Tne murder Of which these three
yo1ng men are accused Is q most
lrutal one Some months ago a
man named Martin Bradley hired to
The Watts boy 70 do work with his
team He was from Paoli. Okla,
and had a good team and wagon
with him. After working some time
The men accused bought his team,
wagon and harness from him Tor
$50. This sum. together with the
wages due him for the time he hat
worked was paid him and upon his
request the Watts boys and Taylor
agreed 10 take him 10 Red river.
When in the ne.ghborhood OF Kings.
ton they claimed TO be lost and
canped for the night.
That night as per arrangement
previously made. Bradley was killed.
One Of the Watts knocked him on the
head with an AK The older one o.
the Doys had agreed TO do the butch
cry 3u, at TIE las, moment MS heart
.aied him and the younger Ole TOOK
the AZ from his hands and dashed
ont the mans brains When morning
came they loaded the body in tIe
wagon, after having first Tifled the
pockets and secured the mJuey which
they had paid Bradley together with
money and valuables he had Then
they started for the Red river in
ending to dump the body in thar
stream and depend upon IFS currents
and shifting sands to hide ne body
Of their victim for al time.
This time they peallr did become
lost and fearing t1at they w.Ild be
caught with the body in IT,. wagon
they drove i.to dense rod ana
endeayored 70 burn it. They only par
tally succeeded The finling Of the
charred remains. the recognition
thereof. together with number Of
suspicious circumsta tances connected
with Bradley's disappearance led TO
the arrest OF the defendants.
A most pathetic scene was Wit
messed at the Garter counr' tsI
mother OF the deceased came in and
wanted to see the men who had
killed her boy" She wa, Sc years
old and ner boy" at the time or
his murder was forty-fiye. Mrs. Brad.
icy, tho poor old mother. had com,
all ;he way from Paoli, over a hun
led miles distant, to see with her
own eyes the young brutes who
mad snapped the thread OF life OF
he whom her aged and breaking
heart, with its mother love. still /
called my boy. The prisoners were
iIned up, inside the cage, before
the poor old mother whose tottering |
footsteps their ruthless hands were .
luFrylng TO the grave When they .
learned who this bent and sorrow. (
stricken woman was-that she was .
the mother who mad nursed their .
victim when an infant and guided .
his first faltering steps into the path |
Dt life, and who watched him grow .
nto manhood leaning heavier and |
heavier each year upon his SUPPORT. /
ing arm as her own path led to the /.
confines OF the dark yalley-when I
they learned who thi; woman was. |
TWO OF them turned and hid away |
from her sight in their cells. The
younger one OF the prisoners. how .
ever, he whose hand it is claimed /
Welded the ak and dashed ont the /
brains. faced it out. Wthout
The tremeor of a muscle or the culver
OF an eyelid he faced the mother OF /
his victim and, to use the expression .
OF an officer at the Jail. stood .
hltched
Feeling is still very bitter against
these defendants in Marshall county. /
hence Their return by the officers TO .
Idmore for safe keepig.