The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-09
KILLING OCCURS
/. ON CADDO STREET.
CARLOS STEVENSON SHOT AND
KILLED BY JACK" HALL THIS
MORNING.

building at the northeast corner of
Second avenue and Caddo street, Car
los c. Stevenson of Coalgate was shot
and instantly killed by Jack Hall OF
this city. The news of the killing was
telephoned to the police station by
some unknown party and Officer Dan
Blackburn responded at once. At the
California restaurant Officer Black
burn met Deputy Sheriff Kendall who
accompanied him to the scene of tn,
iilling. The man Stevenson was iy-
ing on his back in the front room OF
the building in the southeast corner
to the left of the door leading into
rear room from which he had evident
ly come. The officers found a small
pocket knife lying on the floor about
three feet from his right hand. No
weapons were found on his person.
The man Hall, whom witnesses said
did the shooting, had disappeared. La
ter he was apprehended at his home
on Seventh avenue between G and ID
streets, northwest. He was sitting IN
the front room of his residence with
his wife when Deputies Horace Ken
dali and Fred Williams of the sheriff's
force arrived and placed Kim under
arrest. He offered no resistance TO
the officers. When placed under ar
rest he was unarmed and declined to
tell the officers what disposition *
had made of the gun, although he is
said to have admitted to Deputy Will
Jams that he did the killing. Fur
ther than to make this acknowledge
ment the prisoner refused to talk.
The dead man, according to letters
found upon his person, resided In Coal
gate where he has wife and one
small child He appeared to be about
twenty seven or twenty-eight years
of aye Hall appears to De a man oil
forty9or thereabouts
.@Hal has been lodged in Jail where
,e will be held until the time of hold
lg his preliminary. Prosecuting AT
torney Bleakmore stated to an ARD
moreite reporter this afternoon that
he did not have any idea when he
would have the preliminary trial, no.
VIXEN the prisoner would be arraign
ed. He said that the state, so far
as he knew, held no theories as to
what led up to the murder. Deputy
Kendall, Mr.. Bleakmore said, had a
list of the names of several eye wit
nesses to the murder but he (Bleak
more) did not know who they were
Deputy Fred Williams stated that
in a room to the rear of the one
wherein the shooting took place, were
found several cases of some kind oi
liquors (which would indicate that the
pl2ce was some kind Of a drink es-
ablishment. Also, MI Williams sta
ed he found in this room and ssizet
lot of gambling paraphernalia
which consister of one crap table, two
poker tables, large quantity of po
60 chips and a number of decks c
cards. No further arrests have been
made, although it is thought that q
number may follow within the nex'
few days.
4 :eport found it's way upon the
streets shC"Lly after the killing l..tt
the dead m: n vas armed with 4 We
iOus knife At The time of the killing
that he was flourishing this knife
and making the threat that he would
"cut all of you into shoe-strings-I
will cut you too, Jack" at which Hall
fired the fatal shot. However, close
inquiry failed to verify this rumor.
The body of the dead man was re-
moved, upon instruction from the pro-
per officers, to the und !rtaking par
lors of Brown & Bridgman where the
autopsy showed that the bullet, a
tbirty-eight caliber had entered i'm
mediately back of the corner of the
mouth on the left side of his face and
ranging upward had passed out at
the base of the brain, breaking the
neck and causing instant death.
A long distance phone call to Coal
gate brought the information that be-
sides his wife the mother and bro
ther-in-law of Stevenson resided in
that city. Up to the hour of going to
press nothing had been heard from
them.