The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-02-22
BRUTALITY
ALLEGED BY SIX
COUNTY PRISONERS;
EMBRY TO P0BE

Continued from raEc Onel
prisoner. claims that ON February 10
"a police captain and two plain
clothes men at police headquarters
gave him severe taste ol the
'thUd degree hrcauar he would not
answer questions 20 suit them lie
said the captain. whose name hc
could not give. hit him five or six
times. Knocked him OF "A chair twice
and hit him ON the back ol the head
while hr was stretched ON the lluur.
1ud two plain clothes men slapped
him, he asserted May says he SUI
i,r,d from hoadncnc Tor several
DAYS after being transferred 60 the
county jail
Samson Young IL negro ALSO
prisoner at this time. stated that uu
Dec H. 1915, two detectives beat
him ON the head with revolver
nil him with their lists and kicked
Leroy Harris, not set Il years old
declares that ON january 2S four to-
tuctNrs whipped him twice hoo the
yhlrls office aud twice Iu the Jail
basement I'm the chiefs office they
used "hurkiuCh' aud rluhhod
revolver ,hr suys when hv was
i1kon tu the basement, h, cluims, a.
section of rubber hose WAC used ON
Linn 10y the officers, much ns young
Loren Wilson claims to have been
whipped with rope
Dallas johnson, arrested with Harris
ON the same charge. asserts he re
rrlNcd practically the sump trcat-
mcnt tie nov has uu ugly Ernr ON
his forehead, and he asserts this ls
ihr result ut ON, OF the blows hr was
truck with hlucknck
D. c, Roberts q Negro protest. that
hn was 'lurgcd last week hy officers
VINO sought IN force from him con
lrssiuu tu crime
J. b Paul, Who has since been r,-
leased, told fellow prisoner. nt tine
lnll that hn was beaten six months
ago 10y one Of the high officials pt
police Headquarters Paul, VINO has
become religious, pays u visit tu the
county jail every Sunday nov with
christian Endouyor young people
from a local church
Detective Is Suspended.
Frank Baker was indefinitely suspend
cd TUESDAY morning hy MuEUr O,rrHul
ser Baker admitted he had beaten Nouu
Loren Wilson with ropc but rrlrc
the other officers who wcrr soid to b
implicated In the affair
The injured boy Identified charlie Hnk
or brother To the or cor who ronfessr
o. using the rope us ON, OF tn.sn Wh
mistrcatrl him 70 WAS charlie Inkcr
revolver which inflicted the scalp VounD
it was learned TUESDAY Baker state
that he had struck ut Wilson when h
made nn attempt to escape ana ma
then fired one shot INTO the ground {
stop him
$50 far as 4 know Frank Baker wa
the only one ut sll r.spunsiblu for WI
sons injuries snid M1yof Oycrholse
"l have suspended him until the matt,
can be thoroughly investigated II II
proved That hr actually put Wlso
ihrouEh tho third degree mud whlppo
him I'm the manner u which Wilson say
hr DID, bee win Doe discharged ! wi
certainly not tolerate any brutal mi,
conduct or third degree methods ut N
police station
The mayor declared the entire matt,
would be thrcshcd out In court II
charge against Young Wilson of stealth
"a suit uf clothes would be- treated cntir,
Is separate from the charge against n
officers he said
Character Counts Nothing.
"lt makes no difference If Wilson ",
or was not thief so far ~ this bcs
ing was concerned sHid the mayor "
| the officers conduct was unWarranted
| intend to find Vt out II formal charg
/ are not preferred against the office
who handled this case. will pref
| charges m,self for want 90 get n
/ settled and settled right
The matter win not be settled out
| court. either. but every step In II ~
/ b, p1. on record. aud viii be tried hcfo
n court of competent jurisdiction "
The other officers who assisted
/ banding the Wilson cnse besides Z
| Baker brother. were Jim Starter. n
/ slntuu and a. A. Gordon An are pla
/ clothes men SO other suspensions ha
occurred following Bakers satcmc
that nobody else really beat the pri
/ urrr
Chicf Nichols said that rigid inyc
tIrouou was being conducted. and th