The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-26
ILLICIT LOVE
ENOS IN GRAVE
SORDiD STORY OF TWO LIVES
THE MAN IN HIS GRAVE, THE
WOMAN BEHIND IRON BARS.

ness to his wife and children was
ended this morning at eight O'Clock
When Mrs. Leila Hesterly shot and
killed her alleged paramour, Walter
Hickman. The killing occurred in
the public road leading from this
city to. Springer, Immediately in
front OF the house of w. c. Hesterly
father of the woman who fired the
fatal shots.
The story leading up to the killing,
as it will probably come out in the
trial of the defendant will be one
Of loathsome Details each OF which
will DE flushed with revolving besti-
ality on the part of the woman, who
is said to be a divOrcee, and of the
man who gave swing to his lust, for
getting the wife whom he had sworn
to love and cherish and care Cor
and the eight little childrden WHOM
a divine providence had sent asI
rays of bright sunshine to brighten
his pathway through life ana bright
en- his journey to life's end.
1t seems, from all the information
that could be cleaned from various
sources that Hickman, who is a
married man living with his wiia.
and eight children in Springer has
been infatuated with the Hes
terly woman for some time and Il
while living in the bosom of HI
family he has been in the haSi.
of meeting her at all times and
places when the opportunity afford
ed. The aged father of the woman,
it is said demonstrated with both
his daughter and her alleged para
mour without avail. One day last
week he came into this city and
swore to a complaint charging
him with adultery. When the day OF
and pleaded guilty and paid fine If
two hundred dollars. The judge be-
fore whom he appeared is said to
have warned him at the time that
death could be the only sequence to
the dual life which he was living.
On Sunday May IS, in the even
ing. someone came to the home of w.
G.. Hesterly and shot it up. A num-
Der of bullets were fired into the
house. Again Hickman was placed
under arrest and was to have APP
peared before Justice of the Peace
Butcher today to enter into bonds to
keep the peace. 1t is thought he was
on his way to Ardmore for this pur-
pose when he was killed.
According to the statement of the
woman, Leila Hesterly as given to
County Attorney Bleakmore and
Sheriff Garrett, she and her father
were in the front room of her faith
er's house this morning when Hic|t-
man rode by She stated, so it is
said, that her father was lying down
on couch in the room and that
she was standing in front of the
window on the side of the house
facing Springer when she saw Hick-
man approaching She said to her
father, so it is stated, Here comes
| Walter Hickman now" Her father
replied, "Sit down and say nothing
and perhaps he will pass by" She
did not, however, sit down but re-
mainei standing at the window look
ing through the open sash at the
approaching victim. She states, so it
is alleged that when Hickman got
Immediately in front of the house
he looked up and saw her and
raised in his stirrups reaching to
his hip pocket as though to draw
gun. \ single barreled shotgun was
setting near the window and the
woman seized it, jammed it through
the window, took deliberate aim at
the man who so recently had paid
fine on a plea of guilty to being
her adulterous paramour, and pulled
the trigger The horse reared, plung-
ed and ran; the man swayed for
a moment in his saddle grasped
wildly at his bride reins and fell
full length upon his back in :he high
road with a load of number five
buckshot in his head. After seeing
the man alleged to have been hCr
former lover, pitch headlong from his
horse following her unerring aim.
the woman calmly laid aside the
smoking shotgun and picked up a.
navy siA-shooter lying near at hand
and calling to her father, according
20 what has been said to be her
own statement, to get his winchester
and come on, she sprang from the
house and ran into the road Ap.
DrOach:ng the UrOstrata man she is