The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-12-11
II. T. Carr Shoots D. {. Franklin
--GIanCing Bullet Hits Juror
With Fatal Results.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT WITH CARR
Friends Believe He viii Be Admitted to
Battle-Ground Sympathy for Rela-
tives of Dead Iuryman.

Harry E. Carr, of this city, killed c.
D. franklin in Magistrate Bixler's
court room at Cashmere, last Monday
morning at o:45, fifteen minutes be-
fore court would have been opened,
by shooting him three times with q
pistol. One of the bullets passed
through the body of franklin and
struck the floor, blowing place out as
if made by a round chisel, and struck
]. c. Parsons, who was one of the jury
men in the examining trial OF Franklin
who was arrested on the 10Th Of Oc-
tober for assault on the ten year old
daughter of w. S. Guest, and had
since been confined in the county Jail
at Wenatchee. Mr.. Carr was SUBJ
poenaed by the state as witness and
this was the first time he had seen
franklin since he learned OF the wrong
TO his own child. The ball that hit
J. G. Parsons caused instant death.
Franklin lived ten or fifteen minutes.
The shocking tragedy that occurred
in Cashmere last Monday morning, in
the magistrates court room. Just before
court was to be called by Magistrate ].
J. Bixler at 10 o'clock, resulted in the
death OF J. c. Parsons, highly respect
ed citizen of the Cashmere valley
He was the innocent victim of
bullet aimed at c: D. Franklin, who
had made his home here for the past
ten or eleven months, and while wear
ing the mask of religion committed the
most heinous of crimes against girl
children from eight to eleven years Of
age.
c. D. franklin was arrested six
weeks ago on the complaint of W. S.
Guest, ditchwalker for the Icicle Canal
Company, charged with assault on his
daughter, Gladys, ten years OF age.
After his arrest he was Immediately
taken to Wenatchee for safe keeping
and to prevent summary action by the
citizens of Leavenworth. The county
attorney deemed it best to hold his ex-
amining trial at Cashmere, for which
purpose Franklin was taken to Cash
mere last Monday morning. Since his
arrest it developed that Franklin had
assaulted some eight or ten girl children
between the ages of eight and eleven
years, and approached and made ad-
vances to many more. He had shoe
mending shop in frame building at
the east end of the viaduct and when
the children came trooping across from
school in the evening it was his habit
to intice them into his place and give
them candy. fruit and little presents,
saying he liked children. His presents
were, however, always lavished on girl
children. He would take them on his
lap and hug and kiss them, and by
flattery and honied words gain their
confidence. Often he would take little
girls out riding on his bicycle, or go
out walking with them, saying they
would go and hunt flowers. franklin
deceived the older people by pretend
ing to be very pious and religious.
He took the leading part in organizing
a Baptist church here, and sometime
last fall organized a Baptist Sunday
school in which he was the leading
spirit. His exceeding piety and the
part he took in religious matters dis
armed all suspicion. Many people
noticed his apparent fondness for their
children but never suspected him OF
base designs, or thought he might
under his coat have the heart OF viper
and in his head the designs Of wolhsh
fend in the guise Of Christian-that