Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-15
MIXTURE or DARK NIGHT AND
FAT PuLLErS PROVED
TOO STRONG.
JUST Couldn't HELP IT
Had Three Sacks Fun, hut Some OF
Them Died on His
Hands.

chickens with bands about their legs
always sign Of the fancier-and a
negro's penchant for warming his
hands I'm chicken feathers. are the
things which Joined hands In giving
William Hart visions OF city known
as McAlester. McAlester is noted for
the welcome 1t gives coal miners and
persons sentenced to the pcnitentiary.
Hart Is a negro. The depths OF
sable night haven't anything on Will
Ham when II comes TO ebony color
Ing. He's SO black that "A lacquer Of
pot-kcttle talk couldn't improve the
| pigmcntary scheme on which nature
worked overtime but with fullest ef-
feet. Strange that william should
fancy red chickens say you2 Not so.
Proud of IL. Too
william needed money and when
he woke up and found himself sur
round, by hennery and with chick
ems, his hands just naturally reached
out and wouldn't behave. lie could
not do thing with his feelers-he
says so himself He even went fur
ther than that-he admitted familiar
! ity with the word robbery and stealing
and larceny and said 1t was all right
that he be charged with having firt-
ed with the Rhode Island Reds. Yes.
sir, william say he did it-35 Of
them an with cute little bands
around their ankles.
Bill-William, rather-on last
Monday night aroused himself and
learned that he was in the hen house
of o. a Weaver, Mr.. Weaver is a
fanCier of birds -fowls--of the r l.
r, variety He has had ever so many
OF them-and did have more before
Hart took to walking in his sleep.
Weaver lives in Lombard addition to
the city OF Tulsa. which addition is
located in Usage county, to the north
west Of Tulsa. Hart worked for Wea-
Yer one day late last fan He then
saw the II. |. RS, and few days
ago when he ran short of money, he
thought of his old friends
Hens by the Sack Fun.
But somehow when William woke
up in the Weaver hen house. he had
one arm around a gunny sack and
the other arm around a couple Of
hens and he was aware that tied to
the fence was team hooked to
wagon. So he showed the hens down
the mouth of the sack just as gently
as mama pasting down her infants
hair with "A moist hand. and mad
ventently Bilrs hands Williams
hands, rather-reached out and tuck
ed In some more of the garden up-
settlers. When one of the gunny sacks
was filled according to the scriptural
| Injunction of honest measurement,
heaping full and running over, strange
to say, there was another gunnysack
right whore william could grab it.
And he grabbed II and fondly inserted
! II. |. II. hen after hen therein, dis
| heyelng their habits and bringing sor-
row to their hearts. Stranger still,
there happened to be third gunny
sack carelessly lying around in Bil's
--Willam's-way. so he stuffed 1t
with livestock, and the first thing the
Il. J. II. S knew, 35 OF them had be-
begun moving. They were in a wagon
that someone had brought right up
close to the Weaver house.
Fifteen Were Missing.
William drove eastward toward the
Midland Valley railway. and evidently
ne H'dIl tblpltillliN lTOil lHt mems
Anyway, he ascertained that some OF
them were smotherlng, for eight or
ten dead Il. |. RS were found ly-
ing along the railway tracks in the
weeds early yesterday. William got
tired Of hauling dead weight, so he
placed them in the discard, anklets
and all over on North Elgin there
Is a little grocery store conducted by
persons of the same general color
scheme as William so plainly shows,
and there he drove in the early morn
ing hours and sold the fruit of his
nights picking The police found the
hens there and quickly did their own
er establish identification and an alibi
for them-not all OF them-just 20.
Fifteen were gone to that bourne
from which not thing ever did
come back.
ollie Marshall and Gut Pat ~ two
men who wear ordinary looking cloth
Ing and whose effectiveness comes by
reason Of their being clothed in police
authority. began looking up supielous
dlnges They located william over
In Little Africa in shack with an
other person Of color not disslm-
ilar. They took Bill-William-to
the police station. and there he
coughed up his toe nails about his
night OF revelry and deviltry.
The charge again him read Lar
ceny OF Livestock" and to larcen
livestock-or whatever that is-was
provided for by a former legislature
that people said worse things about
than they are saying about the pres
ent legislature. They say about three
years Is the usual goal such practi-
TONERS as William set about to reach.
But Bill--Wiliam rather-wll
have to be tried in Usage county at
Pawhuska. lie Is now in the city
Jail with an information as long as