The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-01-09
YOUNG INDIAN
TRAILS OIL MAN
AND OKLAHOMA PAIR GET AR
RESTED IN ST. LOUIS HOTEL
STORY OF SPECTATORS.

st. Louis. Jan. S.-The arrest Of
Henry T. Davidson, an oil land pro
moter of Fort Gibson, Okla, and Mrs
May d. Rowe, a Cherokee Indian OF
MuskOgee, Okla, at the Maryland ho
tel brought out a strange story OF
the efforts of oil spectators TO in
duce young Indian to sign away his
right to an SO-acre tract of land in
the BarJlesyille oil field of Oklaho-
ma.
Davidson and Mrs. Rowe, who is 80
years old, and a dlyorcee, were ar.
rested in room 214 of the Meryland
hotel They had registered there as
Mr.. and Mrs. Davidson. Also regis.
tered at the hotel was Jack Madden,
the young Indian, whose oil proper.
ty is said to be shining mark for
land spectators.
Clarence w. Madden, a brother of
Jack Madden, caused the arrest He
arrived in St Louis Sunday on the
trail of Davidson and is registered at
the Benton hotel.
Lease to Land Signed.
Jack Madden owns so acres of land
at Wann, Okla, near Bartlesyille. Da-
wilson, in the holdover, said that he
and Mrs. Rowe were not trying to
spirit Jack Madden away, but that
they We're trying to ktep him out of
the clutches of oil spectators, with
whom, he said, Clarence Madden was
in league.
He admitted that he and Mrs. Rowe
were in Kansas City with Jack Mad
den December 3, and that Madden
there signed over to them a lease on
his oil property, the consideration be-
ing $1,000 and a promise of half the
profits if oil was found on tn land.
According to Davidson, young Mad
den was of legal age in September,
but in Oklahoma there is a government
regulation that an Indians age is
counted from the time his birth is Of
ticially registered. Under this regu-
lation Madden will not be of legal
age in oklahoma until January -.
Held for Federal Officers
Davidson said that after January
u the lease signed in Kansas City
would be good.
Clarence Madden alleged that Da-
wilson and Mrs. Rowe We're trying to
sequester his brother until January
10, when they intended to have him
sign a new lease.
Mrs. Rowe is a half-sister of Clar-
ence Madden's wife. Since her ar
rest she has refused to make a state
ment. No formal charge has been |
placed against her. The police said |
they were holding Davidson for the |
federal authorities and were OBTAINING
the woman as a witness.
Tells of Trailing Pair.
Clarence Madden told reporters that
his brothers. property was worth $50
200 and that unusual efforts had been
made to induce the young man to
sign it away for consideration. Jack
Madden. the brother said was taken
on railroad trips to several Oklaho-
ma towns and to Kansas City and
was shown good time" and kept
well supplied with money and intoXi-
cants. Madden said that he and "A.
D. Baker trailed Davidson, Mrs. Rowe
and the brother first to Kansas City
and then to ST. Louis.
Davidson said that it was he and
Mrs. Rowe who did the trailing and
hat in Kansas City they found young
Madden under the influence of Knock
nut" drops given to him by designing
)il spectators.
At the Maryland hotel it was said
hat Jack Madden registered there
Sunday and was assigned to room PIG.
adjoining that of Davidson and Mrs.
Rowe, but that he never went to the
'oom and his whereabouts were not
lnown to the hotel attaches.