The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-16
QUEER CASE
BLOOD M|X-UP
IN MUSK0CEE
CHARGED WITH MISCEG-
NATION; MAN DECLARES
HE is WHITE

iif Is an outrage 20 ne dCCuseu VI
such thing. ! have not single
feature or habit that would give eyi-
dence Of being anything but white
man. ! am victim OF the prejudices
OF my father-in.law and my mother
in law"
So said Henry Malone. young
man OF about thirty. who is held IN
the county Jail on the complaint oil
his fatherin-law, c. L. Rains, eharg
GO with the crime of miscegnation.
/ If there was a way to test the
Blood 70 distinguish white from black
/ flood. so help me God Id be willing
TO stand the test
Ny mother is an Eastern Chero
Nee Indian and my father is a white
niaa- Scotch and Irish.
! Young Malone sat on a couch at
the county Jail today and talked free
ily. He gave the address of his peo
PIE in Waverly Hall Georgia. lie told
where his sister could be found in
Columbus. Georgia. He has other
relatives in Tennessee.
# Malone has negro blood in his
IL ems. there is no race OF it on the
outside His skin is as white as any
mans. His hair is brown entirely
void of kinks. with wayey curls. His
q es are brown and his lips are not
thick
III they can shcw ! nave any negro
Nood in me. they know more about
me than / know about myself. he de
lclared
The case Of Malone is one Of the
strangest ever known in Muskogee
lc0unty. He came TO Muskogee eight
wears ago from Georgia. He was
then twenty-five years old. He was
I in business here at South Cherokee
Isireet and Southside bueyard where
twas employed hy Gaines 4 Dodson,
the Sanitary grocery. and has worked
| Tor and did business with some of
The most prominent people of the
: city
He went from here TO McLain and
started in the mercantile business.
Here is where he met and wooed Miss
MOllie Rains, daughter of C. l.. Rains,
POSTMASTER at McLain After two
children were born, Mr. Rains, caused
us arrest on the charge of being a
negro and marrying a white woman.
At the time Malone was placed in
jail he had a $500 stock of goods
in his store, and he and his wife
Iowned a ninetyacre farm near Nc
Lain. His wife was an Indian and
had eighty acres. and he bought ten
acres adjoining,
Following his arrest he pleaded |
voluntary bankruptcy on advice OF
friends so that his creditors might |
rot suffer.
Prejudice against me is the Sc
cret Of the persecution" he says.
But perhaps the strangest part OF
the case is the fact that while C. L. 4
Pains is prosecuting the young man
Rains daughter, the wife OF Malone |
is clinging faithfully to her husband I
She believes him innocent and that
her father is in a conspiracy to ruin /
him.
Malone tells a peculiar story Of his
early life He admits that he is an
3 cgitimate child under the eyes OF
me law in Oklahoma.
He says that his mother when a
"0une Indian girl, was a servant az 4
the home of his father In Georgia
She was not married to his father
according TO the laws Of the state. bu Il
was his common law wife My moth Il
er's father was a fullblood Chero
B Bee, says Malone, q drunken indian
who was killed one day while on ono
OF his sprees My mother was a wan
doring indian girl and an onghan and
7 as taken in by my father, q white
man. My mother later left my faith
ers root and drilted away and my
l2ther married another woman
was kept by my father and raised by
'im"
Malone says his mother still lives
md if necessary can be brought here
@ testify in his behalf
j. H. Childers, attorney for c. l..
tains, stated today that in behalf OF
lr Rains he will furnish sufficient
roof at Malone's preliminary hearing
N "Wednesday next to show that Ma
1ne is negro.
After Malones mother had lived
18th Mr. White. a southern planter
he felt the disgrace of her action
nd left the place and has since lived
mong and associated with negroes.
ccOrding o Childers The state eX- h,
eCts to prove that Malone's mother II
now married TO a negro and living r
it'll him in Georgia i,
Mt Rains heard that Malone WAS i
negro and al first did not believe p
One day a registered letter came :,
} McI.ain TO Henry or Homer Ma q
NE from Malones old home I'M
eorgia Malone would not receive
and this brought about suspicion Is
II was at conference with Mr -
aims and Malone. and we told Ma !,
ne that he had better go to Georgia
I'd get affidavits revealing his iden-
.y. Malone went TO Georgia. but in :, =
cad OF bringing papers touchino on -
5 race, merely brought letters from -
RS. White, declaring that she had ~.
ised him
. Malone's father was a man named
hite. Malone was his mothers
me. of
We have anidavits from officials -
Georgia that viii prove our con IA
ation
Beaver. Okla. has a man OF the NI
me OF August Nelson. who is. said Pa