Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-15
Sapulpa Jury Returns Death
Sentence After Short
Deliberation.
Third Man Ordered Executed
by Creek County Court;
Date Not Fixed.
World Creek County Bureau,
llglL, East Hohson

World Creek County Bureau,
1l9 n East Hobson.
SAPULPA, Okla, Sept. At. r.
Braught, former Creek county deputy
sheriff. was found guilty OF murder III
the first degree and sentenced to
death In the electric chair by the jury
here tonight after being out an hour
and fifty minutes. The date OF his
electrocution was not set by the court.
Braught is the third man to receive
the death sentence in a Creek county
court and the second this year. Ches-
ter Taylor. negro, who killed Ills
wire with an ak. was condemned 10
die and was electrocuted April 13.
murder without motive. Thar
was the way County Attorney Earl
Foster described tho shooting down
or Ote Robins as he sat in an auto
unarmed and begging for his life in
an Oilton garage, as he summed up
the evidence against T. r. Braught.
former Creek county deputy sheriff,
In the closing argument OF the cold
est-blooded murder case ever tried in
the courts Of this county. The county
attorney closed his argument at 4:4v
O'Clock this afternoon with a plea
that Braught be given the death pen
atty.
There were several outstanding fea-
lures In the trial today. Notable
among them was the testimony a.
Braught himself, one OF the thre,
witnesses produced by the defense
ana his startling testimony that the
man he killed had threatened to take
his life. Braught declared that he
ala not know Robins, altho he had
spent the entire night with him .,
making the rounds of the dance halls
and finally indulging in a mad orgie
at the notorious Hump roadhouse
near Oilton.
His Mother Weeps.
Another dramatic incident oc.
Cured during the opening argumen,
Tor the state by Assistant County At.
torney III. c. Speakman, when he
whirled on Braught and shouted
ou are brute, Tib Braught" Ris-
Ing to her feet unsteadily, on legs
that trembled and with her hands
raised as II in prayer. his uyeu
mother, Mrs. G. A. Adams of Bartles
vile, who sat by his SIDE cried out,
oh God, have mercy on a man usinL
such language about my boy" She
repeated the words "Oh God, oh God. -
while the court raped for order, and
was only Gained when Braught took
her tenderly in his arms and tnvy
cried on each others shoulders.
'idubnt declared when ne took the
stand, that he had been warned by
Justice r. G. Clements of Drumright
that Robins was going to kill him,
when they met long time before the
killing. He said that on the evening
before he shot Robins his wife told
MN when he came home that n man
mad called during the afternoon and
said he owed him a debt and was go
ing to pay it. ''He asked her whore I
was" Braught said. "and he told her
he was going to get me-"
Tho defendant told of meeting Eliza
Messenger and stranger on the
evening of the same day and of the
night OF revelry they spent in the
~ dance hall and the Hump.
Had Revolver.
1t was about $3.50 o'clock in the
morning, the witness said when the
trio started back to Oilton. Robins
was sitting on Braughts lap and
Messenger was driving the auto.
Braught said Robins continually tried
to reach his revolver, which he had
In holster fastened to his belt. and
that finally he removed 1t and put II
on the seat behind his hack.
Arriving at Oilton Braught said
Messenger and himself left Robins
sitting in the auto in the Oklahoma
CONTINUED on PAGE THREE