Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-10
Mavfield Estes and Sawyer
Taken to Chandler Jail
Yesterday,
BELIEVE STARR HAS
MADE A CONFESSION
Another Suspect Arrested in
McAlester; Other Ar
rests Soon.


1--WE MEN, Henry Starr, Bill and
Il Sam Estes. brothers. Bux Max
field and Claud Sawyer are held in
the county jail at Chandler. and soon
viii be formally charged with the rob-
berry of the two Stroud banks which
were plundered by gang of bandits
about two weeks ago. starr and
Estes already have been charged with
bank robbery, However, Maxfeld,
Sam Estes and Sawyer were only in
carcerated in the Chandler Jail yes-
terday afternoon. having been taken
from Tulsa.
Sawyer was brought to Tulsa yester-
day morning by q deputy sheriff of
Lincoln county and turned over to
Sheriff James Woolley. He was ar
rested at McAlester and without con
sulting local officers there he spirited
him 20 Tulsa.
Although tho sheriff at Chandler
last night denied it, there has been
a persistent rumor that either Henry
starr or Bill Estes have confessed to
having been implicated I'm the Stroud
robbery and have turned states evil
dence, 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
Despite the fact that the sheriff's
office yesterday afternoon declined to
give out any information regarding
the developments I'm the holding of
Estes and MaXfield I'm jail II was
learned from "a qpnpga ng1alIV uyaI1 IL,
formed that evidence has been OBJ
tained by the use of a dictagraph
them In court. The evidence was OBJ
tained by the use OF distograph
which was secretly placed over the
cells In which the two men are held
about o'clock Thursday night. How
ever, the chances for a complete story
of the robbery and statements which
the two men might have made was
shattered by a dope fiend in an ad-
joining cell, who saw the officers
placing the wire and tipped the game
to the alleged robbers.
eve must prove an al!bl-you can
tell what they have on us and we must
be able to prove where we were at
the time of ;hc robbery"
The foregoing was about all that
the dictagraph caught. When the
men We're told by the man in another
cell they lid not talk further about
their case. The scattering bits Of con-
versation picked up by the dlctagraph
wires were taken from the record in
the sheHffs office yesterday
Other arrests I'm connection with the
stroud robberies are expected to fol-
low within the next few days. Off
GERS throughout eastern Oklahoma are
searching for the bandits and II the
reports that either Starr or Bill Estes
is furnishing officials with the infor-
nation is correct the entire gang likely
will be rounded up within the next
few days
It 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 here the Monday before the
robbery.
Following the buying Of the muni-
tions they met a third party and to-
gether they drove TO a house I'm the
east part Of the city where they OBJ
taincd four quarts of whisky There
they were Joined by fourth man and
they drove to the fairgrounds where
they were met by Henry Starr. Here
the plans were made i'm 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 gan0 intended to
rob a Sapulpa bank.
TWO prominent and wealthy Tulsa
Indians who have royalties from oil
producing lands that aggregate more
than five hundred dollars a day knew
of the plans Of the STROUD robbery and
they would have been participants
had il not been for the threats Of their
wives. The wives of the two men said
they would inform the officers II they
in the robberies one OF
the Indians owns considerable Tulsa
real estate and rental property.