The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-01-09
He DIDN'T
NEED JOB
ANYWA
Talks Freely About His
Sudden Departure
from ChiCkaSha

~rhey got 70 raising 50 much cain,
telling this, that and the other, that
got tired Of it. and knowing I could
make as much money without the job
as with IL just decided to leave It
and duck the whole business
This was the reply Of Jim OMalley
when asked the reason for his sudden
and unannounced departure from
chickasha nearly four years ago on
the day he was elected chief Of police.
There never was anything in the
charges they made against me and /
knew Il, but It was plain to me, ii /
stayed, that they would make it dogs
life for me and as / didn't have to
stand ID. concluded to gel out Of III"
continued O'Malley "a few days be-
fore the election had received let
ter from a friend who had recently
gone to Seattle offering me Job in
his barber shop, saying ! could make
$3.50 a month"; and that Job looked bet.
ter to me than the one here with all
the trouble Il vas sure to bring me.
There are no charges against me at
Taylor Texas. where they said was
wanted and I'm going there now. II
there had ever been any charges they
could have found me.
Four years ago. vhen 0NaIley was
elected, both the primary ana gnneral
elections were preceded by warm cam.
paigus. OMallty was electcr chief over
r. F. Reese, Republican. BY 267 votes,
but Nhen the returns we're counted, the
chlegelect was gone and his sudden
departure gave rise to no end Of spec.
ulation He SAYS he left town at g
o'clock In the afternoon OF the cleo
ton day going to Kansas City aud
thence to San Francisco. From there
be went to Seattle, where he was locat-
ed during the exposition. and later no
lived In Portland for time, but he
has spent OF the time in San Fran
cisco. where he says he is following
his trade as a barber His relatives
live in Taylor Texas, and he planned
I, leave Tor that place today.
Scarcely had O'Malley announced
his candidacy in that memorable cam
palgn four years ago when dark hints
that he bad q past began 70 bob up
aud charges flew thick and fast up to
the very day Of election. when it was
said that an officer from Taylor
Tayior Texas, was here u arrest him,
but o'Aiailey says no such officer was
ever here a vas in Taylor about a
month before the election aud they
could have arrested me then If they
wanted me, said he.
The tirst charge brought vas that
o'Malley had changed his name AFTER
coming to this country and that, OF
course was suspicious. II was report.
ed that he was known as Jim Whalen
around BRENNAN. Texas, where he was
raised. Then O'Malley explained that
his stepfathers name was Whalen and
he was as well known by that name
as By bits own during his boyhood and
early manhood
Count No. in the Indictment said
O'Malley had one too many wives
that as whalen he had annexed Mrs,
Whalen before he acquired Mrs. O'AIal-
ley. He admitted that as Whalen he
had been married aud had later been
divorced I'd proof OF this. il was said
ttst the former Mrs. Whalen had writ.
ten a letter saying they had been di-
yorced, but investigation Of the county
records at TAYLOR didn't disclose any
papers relating 70 the marriage or d.
vorce, Then came the final charge
that 0'aislieY Or his agent had tam
pered with those records. swiping a
page or two out Of the books. and it
was on this charge, il was said, he
was about to be arrested when he
hiked.
For a number OF years before he got
int city politics, OMalley had been a
barber in Chlckasha and he made
scores or friends with his Iriah wit and
pleasing personality q oughs to have
stayed and fought it out, said he, ebut
I didn't see it that way at the time
and SO ile wthe coop, he added. "lf
anybody has any charges against me.
/ am ready to face them