Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-17

~ did. sub She promised to keep
close watch on the girl aud on the
house. and she kept her word 1t was
through her that | learned the news
that sent me away to Rails county
loolin' for Chickasaw Jesse Bream and
Lottie-May DogEett. sub
DO you mean that she learned OF
their fight. Colonel Todhunter:"
Yes. sub She creep up close enough
to overhear what they was a-sayin'
when they met in that clump o trees
between the Do-Sett house and the
RanSoms' cabin. sub. She heard all that
went on between EN-, sub. She was
waitin' for me when got home from
Colonel Bill Strickland'S the night be-
fore this trial began, and she told me
the whole story"
What did you do then, Colonel Tod
hunter"
There wasn't but one thing to be
done. sub. if ChickaSaw Jesse was to
be caught and Tom Strickland saved 4,
from bein' found guilty of murderin'
STAN Tucker. That one thing was to
follow Jesse Bream and Lottie-May
Doggett without loSin' minutes time
and arrest him befo' he got out o the
state. sub
The witness then confirmed in detail
that part of the girls testimony relat
ing to the capture of Jesse Bream.
Did this man. Jesse Bream. make n
I confession of his guilt as being the
murderer of Stamford Tucker?"
Yes. sub And. furthermore, under
oath, he told a mighty strange story
of a happenin' that in itself might ha'
hung Tom Strickland"
/ There was a quick stir of heightened
/ dramatic expectancy in the courtroom.
Major Gentry Dryden paused gu:!! Z.
| had subsidized.
| What was that strange story, Colo
mel TodhunJer," he asked. (which. as
you have just testified, the man Jesse
Bream told you and the sheriff Of
Rails county under oath?"
He told me- sub. that Tom Strick-
land himself appeared on the scene
of the murder almost the next moment.
As l hollered to STAN Tucker, cussin'
him and tellin' him that l was a-goin'
to kill him for havin' wronged Lottie-
| May said Chickasaw Jesse Bream,
STAN Tucker drew his gun and fired
just the mint l fired. My shot got
him. but his'n didn't tech me. When
| saw that he was a-layin' still ran
up to his body. looked down and saw
that | had plunked him through the
head. right between the eyes, and that
i,a I nj
started TO run down the road to'ards
the town of Nineveh.
81 hadn't gone any ways hardly
when a man came to'ards me on that
road. When lie saw me he laughed,
and the next mint he outs with hiss
gun and fires at me. | was skeered
cause | didn't want to be recognized,
and turns and runs straight through
the woods, lookin' back once or twice
And that man came to the edge of the,
woods, and l heard him laugh and
then mutter like he was drunk and
talkin' to himself. and then he DELHI
erately turned back on the Black Bot
toms road and went to'ards town"
Did Jesse Bream tell you and the
sheriff of Rails county. Colonel Tod
hunter, that he recognized the man
whom he thus met after having killed
Stamford Tucker?"
He did. sub"
what was that mans naDe?"
at was Thomas W. Strickland. sub.
Chickasaw Jesse Dream swears that
he saw him plainly, and he takes his
oath that it was Tom Strickland"
Did Jesse Bream tell you what be
did after that encounter?'
Yes. sub. He says that he lay out
in the woods for about an hour and