Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-17
OFFICERS
TRIAL SET TODAY
"pV El'loos mpuo,an
PrellmlnaIA i,,"...c . BE
Started Before Judge Stan
deven at 9 This Morning.
BULLETS TAKEN FROM BODY
Post Mortem Shows Two Dif.
ferent Shots Responsible
for Death of Hatfield.

The preliminary hearing in the case
of 4. H. Townsend. " NJ. Shuc cart
Lewis. Ramcy Miller and Rirhnrd
Nelson, all members OF the Tulsa po-
lice department. who last Friday night
shot TO death Vernon Hatfield, "a
taNicab driver will bc started this
morning before Judge IT, l.. Standcyon
at the county court beginning
promptly Al . o'clock. This WAS given
out last night hy County Attorney
George Reeves.
Altho the ucn who composed the
raidng squad FRIDAY night have
oven suspended from the department.
Chicf Of Police Ed Lucas declared
last night that all Of his men wcro
ready To 10 before the court for hear.
ing at any time
The information. charging the five
members of the police department
with the murder of Hatfield was
sworn To late yesterday afternoon be-
fore Judge StandcVcu hy - r. Hat
field. father of the boy who was
killed. but was not filed. County At
torncy Reeves declared. because he
had been unable to complete the
work he was engaged In before the
office of the clerk closed at 3 o'clock.
Night in Jail Prospect.
The five accused officers probably
will spend tonight in the county Jail
County Attorney Reeves expressed
the belief that the preliminary hear
ing could not be completed in ono
day and the magistrate before whom
a preliminary hearing Is conducted
has no authority to grant bnil in a
murder case.
Dynamite Ed Grassland. former
prosecuting attorney formally en-
tered the case Yesterday He has been
retained 10y the Hatfield family j. T.
l}ennctt. who had been retained by
the llatfields, withdrew
Twcnt, Witnesses
County Attorney Reeves announced
Yesterday that he had secured a num-
ber OF names of witnesses for tho
prosecution and that iu all twenty
persons would appear at the prelimi-
nary hearing today on the side of tho
state.
Bullets Found.
The days developments in the Hat
field case opened yesterday morning
when the request of the parents of the
slain taXicab driver were granted and
n post mortCm examination of the
body was made. This examination, .
according To- the physicians who con-
Quoted It. disclosed the fact that two /
bullets had entered the body. one ot
these balls. that Of the steel Jacket I
which remained in the body was re-
moved about two inches above tho [
knee cap of the left leg
Course Of Ball.
This bullet had entered the body |
about the belt line TO the left of tho |
spinal column. passing thru the alb .
dumual cavity and into the loft thigh, .
following the bone of the leg to "A /
point where II was located by the doc T
tors This bullet it was declared. .
was not as large as the one which had .
entered the back 10 the right OF the 4
spinal column about the tip Of the I
shoulder blade and passes entirely .
thru both lungs. making It's exit above .
the heart at a point between the upper
rib ana the lcft collar blade
According To those who were pre-
Cnt at the examination II was much .
larger than the other bullet found. q
showing conclusvely that two differ /
cnt guns had been responsible for the .
death OF the taNicai driver
Pictures secured.
Following the post norton county |
Attorney Reeves secured the testimony /
of another witness. who will bee used !.
for the prosecution and then sc1t [.
to tho scene of the kill /
ing with Instructions to secure photo. /
graphs of the house the police raidcd /
preceding the shooting and of tho /
brick piles and other obstacles be- /
hind which the police are said to have I
stood when they fired on the lad. /
These pictures, especially those Of tho |
Snake Morris place at 521 rust
Third, may never hc used. ;he county /
attorney said but were secured to |
snow. II the question arose. that wit /
nesses who sWear they saw tho kill .
ing may show that Il was possible 90
he within the Morris place and have q
Wow of the scene of the tr gcdy
The information charging H. II. /
Townsend and his party with tho kill
ing of Hatfield, was sworn to 10y the
father OF the dead boy In the charge. 1
the style of which is state Of okla /
homa vs.. W. NJ Shuc. II. II Town .
send, Carl Lewis, Ramey Miller and I
Richard Nelson. Hatfield saws that
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