The Mena weekly star., 1913-10-16
HOW SHE BATTLED
 WITH HUMAN WOLF
Widow of Yates Standridge's Victim Tells of Bloody Fight in Ozark Home-New Light on
 Tragedy.
From the Arkansas Gazette.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 Little Rock, Oct, l0-An epic of the Ozarks-a story thrilling, blood stirring and graphic in the very simplicity of it's language-is the tale of one of the bloody deeds of Yates Standridge, as told by the widow of a man who was killed by this human wolf and who was herself wounded by him.
 It is a touching letter that Mrs. R. H. Rosamond has written to the Gazette. Without frills or adorn- ment. she has told in her simple way the story of one of the most cold-blooded and brutal crimes in the annals of Arkansas. Mrs. Rosa mond had no idea of making her self out a heroine in writing thls letter. Her sole reason for writing this letter was to do justice to the memory of her husband and to show that he and Mrs. Overturn, who lived at the Rosamond home, were shot down without reason or prOvOcation.
 Mrs ROSamOnd'S Story.
 This is Mrs. Rosamond's story: The Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock:
 "Sirs-I beg to be excused for writing to you, but 1 saw in your paper a statement made at the time of the arrest of Yates Standridge, the Newton county criminal and convict who escaped. 1 believe the paper stated, on October l2. 1912, from the camp at Alreberg. The paper said that the record of Stand ridge is perhaps the worst in the annals of Arkansas CriminolOgy, and that surely is a fact. But the state ment that after his return to New ton county. en route from the penl- tentiarv where he escaped, he got in an altercatiOn with an aged man and two women, killing the man and wounding one of the women, IS not quite correct.
 Defends Her Husbands Memory.
 Tn the petition that was circu- lated at home for Standridge's re- lease from the penitentiary, it was written that Standrdge shot my husband and wounded me because we refused to permit his folks, whom he thought were at our house. to come out when he asked for them. The petition said that Standridge called out to my hus- band to let his folks out of the house. and that when my husband refused and reached for his gun, Standridge shot and killed him.
 Those statements in the petition were not true, and the real story of the shooting is that Standridge se- creted himself behind the smoke house and called out like a stranger asking for something. When he ran across Mrs. OVerturn's little grand daughter who went to a spring near the smOkehOuse for water, he pointed his gun at her and told her to keep still. He asked her who was at the house and she told him. He then told her in kind, pleading words to remain at the spring. She said she would not do this, but be- fore she started to leave him he ran toward the house, saying that she would not have to wait long. He ran and hid behind the smOkehOuse and hollered The road ran in front of the house, and my husband went to the door to see who was calling. He stood with his right hand on the left casing of the door, and while stopping to look up and down the road to see what was wanted by the man calling, Stand ridge shot him down like a dog. There was not a word passed be- tween them. My husband was sick, having been completely worn out by hunting through the hills with the officers after Standridge, after he escaped from shooting down Sheriff Hatley.
 The Wolf" Appears.
 He had only been out of bed a short time and had eaten nothing either for breakfast or dinner. At the report of the gun I cried, oh, my God; there he is nowr and jumped out of bed, where I had been for several days sick. As jumped out of bed my husband turned around and said, He's got me- Then he fell to the floor. He fell before I got half way across the floor and I knew he was disabled So took the shotgun from the rack on the wall to try and keep Yates out of the house.
 Several minutes after my hus- band was shot Yates called my name, and l answered him.
 "Ts Divena there?' he asked Di- vena was Standridge's wife).
 "'Yes, sir I answered.
 Turn her out he said.
 "T can't do that. They have Jeff her here for us to care for and pro- tect, and I can't turn her out said. Then he cursed me anC threatened to burn us out.