Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-06-25
MRS. HADLEY TELLS
OF KILLING GILES
Sheds Tears in Recital ON
Witness Stand; Her
Plea Is Insanity.

MUSK OGEE, June 24-lda Hadley.
a smile upon her lips. sat IL the VII
ness chair in the district court mere
Friday and told her story of the shoot
ing of Sheriff Jake Giles of Beau
mont. Texas. in "A coach Of Missouri,
Kansas Il Texas passenger train earlS
on the morning of March -. she
with her husband, Paul HUdley, VINO
was being taken back to beaumont
to answer the charge Of stealing an
automobile at the .me Giles met ms
death, are on trial TOR his hurdef'
Mrs. liadley was testifyins IN her
own defense. Haltinsly, sobs ire
quently checking her recital. she mad
told of her husbands arrest In kan
sas city. She was i'll in bed she sald'
when the news was biokcn TO het
Despite her condition she had leaped
from the bed. dressed ahd hurried
to police headquarters where she
begged to be allowed to remain with
her husband.
When he was placed aboard "A train
bound for Beaumont she went with
him. In her bosom she had con
cealed a revolver, she said. intending
to take her own life. 1t was shortly
after the train had left Muskogee thar
she left her seat and went to the
womcns' toilet determined to- Kill her
self.
1t was while preparing for her
death that the "inspiration' that led
to Giles death was born, she said
The Inspiration
suddenly it came to me gisp'u
the witness. leaping forward in the
witness chair. Her eyes were open
wide and tear feIl down her cheek.
81 would hold up Mr.. jake
up Mr.. Jake and take---Paul away.
81 went back down the aisle. !
did not stop to think il cut. | did
not stop to think Just how ! would
hold him up. As ! nearcd the se!.
in which Mr. Jake was DOING, half
asleep, he raised up little and
rubbed his eyes. | thought he was
going to turn around. had been
carrying the gun down the aisle III
my right hand, my finger on the
trigger all the time.
Then Pulled Trigger.
az raised the gun don't know
why, and pulled the trigger Mr.. Jake
did not move. | did not think hac
hit him. did not aim 1t his head
any more than at his shoulders.
had just pulled the trigger
"Mr. Hadley jumped up. lie had
been asleep. He leaped across the
aisle.
Ida. God. what have you done?'
he said. lie tried to lift Mr.. Jake up
and then cried, my God! You have
killed him
Then | turned to Mr.. Iladley. He
was saving a lot of things, | don't
know what
You've got to help mo, amt you
going to help me- | cried.
"He didn't do anything ! showed
Mr.. Jake's gun against him and said,
take this and shoot your way out Of
here or I'll kill you. too lie went to
one cnd of the car and ! went 10 the
other. | turned and made some fel-
low sit down and then shouted to tn"
train auditor to stop the train or I'd
kill him."
Tells of Capture
Early in the day Sheriff McCune
of Mcintosh county had iCld Of the
pursuit of the couple and of their
capture at farm house. When ho
told Mrs. lIadley that Giles was dead
she had Clapped her hands and cried,
"goody, goody," he declared.
Pat Gavin, counsel for the Hadleys,
today outlined the defense Ida Had
ley's grandmother died in an insane
asylum, he said, her father was n
drunkard and Ida was born only a
short time after her mother, with
2-year-old child under one arm and Il
5-vear-old child under tho other, had
fled for five hours through Il swamp
to escape the wrath Of he" husband.
Several physicians. qualifying as ex-
perts. testified that in their belief Ida
Hadley is insane. The defense con-
tends she is a nymphomanlac.
During the night session wind
storm, approaching cyclonic proper
ton, broke over the city and tho
crowds that packed the courtroom
stampeded Court was hurriedly ad,
journed.