Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-16
SHOW CREEKMORE
WAS PAGES PAL"
Was Bill" and "Charlie"
With Them, Says James
Statement.
DEPOSITION SALACI0US
Portions of Sadie's Confess
sion Held Out as "Not
Fit to Print"
DEFENSE TO BRANCH OUT
Lawyers for Publisher, Seeing
Breakers, Plan to Widen
Scope of Testimony.
DEFENSE TO BRANCH OUT
Special to The World.

Special to The World.
MUSKOGEE, May Is. - w. j.
C"Bnl'D Creekmore, deposed KING
of Oklahoma pootIeggers, and Sadie
Jones. former keeper of notorious
negro dive in Tulsa, known as the
"bucket of blood" were two OF
Charles Pages cohorts in 1913 ana
1914, when "A strenuous campaign was
being waged to establish Tommy
Atkins" the deposition OF Sauie
James, which was made pubic today'
charges.
Sadie, who later turned states eVi-
dence, at that time was in the employ
of PAGE to find Minnie Atkins ana
have her swear that there had been a
..Tommy Atkins" on one occasion
she went to Pages office in the First
National bank building, Tulsa, to con-
fer with him about the deed to the
Tommy Atkins allotment in the Cush-
ing field, Sadie says.
Met Many Times.
"Mr. Creekmore was in the office
on that day" Sadie related. we hau
been there two or three days before
that, talking-not on that case tho-
Mr.. Creekmore, Mr.. Page ana l. lots
of times, on business matter OF our
own-not this" 49,,
Another part of Sadies deposition
states: Mr. Creekmore was in there
and Mr.. Page said, when you eet
Minnie to sign this deed, 1t VIII be toI
your friend here, Bill, and you Will
get $1,000 if she signs It,
Wanted "Bill" to Take II.
"NIr. Creekmore said well Charlie,
why don't you get it? Let the deeu
be signed in your name
mo" Page replied, according 10
Sadie. that will look too bad, ! nave
got a lease and | don't want tha'
deed. but Bill. you take IT.
Later the deed was transferred 10
Page.
CIandcstinc Meetings.
The negress tells of clandestinee
meetings with Page in his oifice' az
his park in Sand Springs and also al
her house 5O4 East Archer. He kept
her well supplied with money she as
serts. Parts of her testimony are not
printable. . .,,.o
sadie saws she told Page that there
was not a Tommy Atkins but he
told her that they would fix that'
Irpon a confession made to federal
officers In 1914 Sadie was promised
immunity. ,,,..
Her deposition taken in Kansas City
twenty-five hundred typewriter
pages and is in three bound volumes
pages attorneys were present bu'
they could not shake her testimony
on cross examination.
Many Witnesses Come.
The Page witnesses are arriving on
nearly every train. His attorneys eN-
meet to begin offering their case to-
morrow.
page himself returned to Muskoge1
today. A.
AS the time for this part of the
case grows nearer 1t is more eVlueh'
that Page will not confine his defense
TO an attempt to prove that Ioinihs
Atkins existed The strong line o'
evidence submitted to the contrary
by the government last week wouio
seem to indicate beyond any reason
able doubt that Tommy is myth.
Defense Broader.
Pages chief defense. 1t is believed
will be that he was an innocent pur
chaser"-that he did not know there
was not Tommy Atkins at the tlm'
he bought the allotment. While TINS
IL proved, might not retain for hin
the oil land worth about $4,000, 900
II would save him from criminal pros
ecution on the grounds of perjury ant
conspiracy to defraud.
Today attorneys for Nancy Atkins
presented witnesses to testify that sh'
had a son called Tommy In the lat
nineties. One Bon Delozier, a negro
swcre that he had attended TIT
funeral of Nancy's child in 1902. Whei
the time for cross examination cam'
w. L. T. German, attorney for tn
government. produced record whici
showed that the negro had been II
the Ohio state penitentiary from 1sO
TO 1904.
Great Memories.
All OF the witnesses for this SD
said they remembered Nancy's chile
and that its name was Tommy. The.
could not recall, however, the name
OF other children about the town
Wagner twenty years aSo.
The evidence for and against Henr
Carter, who claims to be the rea
.Tommy Atkins, will be submitte'
entirely in deposition form.
Page at one time held lease iron
Carter, but abandoned II when h
satisfied himself that Minnie was "th
best bet" In the Tommy Atkins hand
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