The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-09

one room, and the tCopeland) and his wife would go into another room to see about the letters, and then Cope land would run away. He testified there were no such letters as Cope land told the officers about, in his suit case or at his tAdams) house. He also testified tha when o. c. Pierce. the secret Service man, came to his house to get his daughter to testify, Pierce told him that Maxey was bad man, and ought to be in prison whether he was guilty of this charge or not.
 Walter Melton, cell mate of Cope lands, while Copeland was in the visited Copeland often, and that Cope land told him by duplicating Maxey in the case against him, three in number he could get rid of two cases. and get light sentence on the other. He testified that Copeland got him to agree to testify to what he. wanted him to say as to what passed between himself and Mrs. Copeland on her visit to him, and that in Colonel Whipple's office, be- fore Pierce, Copeland, and Mrs. Cope land, he made false statements as to conversations that had taken place, corroberating what Copeland said, and refuting what Mrs. Copeland said. He swears he stated that Mrs. Copeland admitted having the death oath when that was not true. He said in the final trial of the case he was not put on the stand.
 Mrs Ollie L. Copeland, the wife of the self-confessed insurance swind- Ter, testified that she met Copeland at Red Oak, Oklahoma, where he was teaching school Some three years after their marriage he took out in surance in the Royal Highlanders. In 1910 he received from the insurance company $1 800 on the life of his brother, Perry Copeland. After that they removed to Lebanon, Tenn. where he studied law, and she came to Hot Springs, her health being broken.
 Copeland came on here later, and she learned that he had gotten hold of some money, but he said he made 1t out of timber deals He went to Texas, and while she was at St. Joseph's in this city. he telegraphed her from Fort Worth that he had cleared nearly s4,000 in deal"
 She testified that she never knew that he had defrauded the Royal Highlanders until last February. She introduced a letter from her husband in which he stated that he was in temporary trouble over the land deal, but that he would soon be all right. Hes wrote her to get job and go to work and look after their child, Lillian, until he got out of trouble.
 Then she testified to having learn ed that her husband was under ar. rest for collecting an insurance poll cy on her death, and or a visit from the secret service man, Pierce, who told her that they had proof that she was also implicated, but that they wanted to get Maxey. who they believed inspired the swindle, ana that inducements were made to her to make certain alleged confessions" which she stated could not be true
 Speaking of the conversation in Col. Whipple's office concerning her testimony in the Maxey case, she testifes:
 He (Col Whipple) asked MT Copeland if that was the original tdeath oath) and Mr. Copeland told him no, that I had the original, and had given it to him while he was in jail here, and that was a copy he made from it, also that Maxey had one of them. Col. WIhipple asked me if l had the original and ] .old him no that l had never seen any ori- ginal and had never had any such thing. He asked me if l knew Maxey and l told him no. Col. Whipple told me that they didn't need me but for one thing. He said that when he had Mir Copeland on the witness stand, and was asking him about the death oath, he wanted to ask me if had the original. and wanted me to rise 10 my feet and say No, l haven't got it. l told him l could not do that for l had never had 1t, and that would ook like had had 1t, but that would say that I never had had it. He said no that he didn't want me to say that, that he wanted me to say I haven't got it. I told him would not say that, for that would leave the impression that l had it at some time, buts didn't have it then Finally he asked me if I would simp- ly say No when he asked if I had