The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-04-10
REPORT THAT HENRY STARR
AND ESTES HAVE TURNED
STATES EVIDENCE
D|CTAGRlPH USED IN Cell !
CATCH WORDS OF BANDIT
SAWYER AND MAXFIELD
ESTES REMOVED FROM
TULSA TO CHANDLER

Report came from Chandler, Satur
day, that Henry Starr bank bandit
has confessed to the Stroud banl
robbery and with Bill Estes, his cap
tnred pal, has turned states evidence
the information on which the officers
are working and which has resulted
In the arrests of three other men who
are alleged members of the gang, was
furnished by one or both of the two
men first arrested. The sheriff's Of
flee is reticient about the matter.
Five men, Henry Starr, pill and
Sam Estes, brothers, Bub Maxfield
and Claud Sawyer are held in the
county jail at Chandler, and win be
formally charged with the robbery Of
tK two Stroud banks whcih were
plundered BY gang Of bandits about
twofweeks ago. Starr and Estes al
ready have been charged with bank
robbery. However. Maxfield, Sam
Estes and Sawyer were only incar-
ccratcd in the Chandler Jail Friday
afternoon, having been taken from
Tulsa.
Despite iitc fact that the sheriff's
office declined TO give out any lnforma-
tlon regarding the developments III
the holding OF Estes and Maxfield In
Jail, 1t was learned from source
usually we'll informed that evidence
has been obtained by the use Of
dictagraph. The dictagraph was
secretly placed over the cells in which
the two men are held about 0 o'clock
Thursday night. However, the
chances for complete story of the
robbery and statements which the
two men might have made was shat !
tered by a dope fiend in an adjoining
cell. who saw the officers placing the
wire and tipped the game to the al
legged robbers. !,
''Wc must prove an alibi-you can't !
tell what they have on us and we must
be able to prove where we were at
the time of the robbery"
The foregoing was about all that
the dlctagraph caught. When the
men we're told by the man in another
cell they did not talk further about
their case. The scattering bits of con-
versation picked up by the dictagraph
wires were taken from the record in
the sheriff's office. Y
Other arrests In connection with
the Stroud robberies are expected to
follow within the next few days. Of
ficers throughout eastern Oklahoma
are searching for the bandits and II
the reports that either Starr or Bill
Estes is furnishing officials with the
information is correct the entire gang
likely will be rounded up within the
next few days.
1t also was learned yesterday that
the ammunition which was used by
the bandits in the street fight follow
ing the robbery was bought in Tulsa.
Two young men whose names for the (
present are being withheld by officials
bought a quantity of revolver cart
ridges at Tulsa the Monday before the
robbery.
Following the buying of the muni-
tions they met third party and to-
gether they drove to house where,
they obtained four quarts of whisky.
There they were joined by a fourth
man and they drove to the fairgrounds
where they were met by Henry Starr
Here the plans we're made in detail
for the robbery of the Stroud banks.
Had Starr not been captured two other
banks would probably have been rob
bed few days after the Stroud af.
fair. Starr and his gang intended to {
rob Sapulpa bank. !
Two prominent and wealthy Tulsa !
Indians who have royalties from oil {
producing lands that aggregate more !,
than five hundred dollars day knew
Of the plans of the Stroud robbery and ,
they would have been participants !,
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