Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-23
A BARTbESVIbLE
RESIDENT SLAIN
OTIS GREGORY Scot TO DEATH
BY POLICEMAN AFTER
SHOOTING WOMAN.
CRAZED With INFATUAT|0N
Irene Wilcox Object of His Wrath
Her Statement Seems TO Ey0ner-
ate Actions OF Wilkinson.

Mrs. Irene Wilcox lies at local
hospital. lowering between life and
death. as the result of having been
shot last Sunday morning at her room
ing house on North Cheyenne avenue
by a half-crazed lover, who himself
was shot and killed by detective,
following his attack on the woman.
II is feared that Mrs. Wilcox cannot
live. She has bullet wound through
an arm and entirely through her body,
piercing her liver and lungs.
Otis Gregory, who did the shoot
ing, was a prominent restaurant pro-
prietor Of Bartlesvllle. He leaves n
wife and three children at Bartles-
vile. Mrs. Wilcox, who has resided
in Tulsa for some time visited Greg
ory at Bartlesvile last Friday and
Saturday. He tried to persuade her
to stay there but she refused. lie fol-
lowed her to the train when she left
for Tulsa Saturday evening. He at
tempted to Jerk her back when she
boarded the train, but she escaped
him. Gregory then went to an under
taker in Bartlesville, It is said, and
borrowed a revolver and cartridges.
He got on a train the next morning
and came to Tulsa. lie took a cab
to the ST. Elmo rooming house, Brady
street and Cheyenne avenue, which Is
owned by Mrs Wilcox. Arriving at
the place at $40 a. m. he jumped
out of the cab and was seen by a
woman In an upper window, who no.
titled Mrs. Wilcox that he was coming
upstairs.
open the door, Otis what do you
want in there" called Mrs. Wilcox.
Suddenly without a word of warming,
Gregory partially opened the door,
stuck out revolver and fired. The
bullet struck Mrs Wilcox, and Greg
Dry is said to have then turned the
gun on Wilkinson. The latter pulled
his own gun quickly and fired
own Bullet Through Hat.
simultaneously the report Of Greg
ory's revolver rang out The bullet
from his gun, however, went through
the brim Of his own hat and struc,
the ceiling. WilkInsons bullet hit
him In the head and coursed through
the brain. Mrs. Wilcox ran into
another room and tainted
Both wounded persons were rushed
to hospitals. Gregory never regain
ed consciousness sufficiently to make !
a statement. He died at o'clock i'm
the afternoon. 1t is said that the same
from whom he borrowed
the gun came down from Bartlesville
yesterday and took charge OF the body {
which was shipped back to Bartles-
vile at the direction of his wife TO be
only few minutes since the shoot
ing. At the hospital yesterday she [
said that Gregory shot her because /
She would not return his affections. I
She also declared that Gregory shot .
first and then attempted to shoot Of
ficer Wilkinson, after which Wilkinson
Aliltu ilils ilei statement was pfac- I
tically an eXoneration of Wilklnson's
act. 1t has been charged that Greg
ory had squandered large sums OF
money on Mrs. wilcox. and bad bought
her roomlng house for her This Is
denied by the woman. who declares
hat she owns all Of the property now
n her possession and that she pur-
.hased II all herself.
Mrs. Wilcox once shot herself acci-
ientally through the lungs She IS
separated from her husband Her
ather lives I'm Kansas and she has
lister now in Tulsa.
THE WEATHER. "A
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