The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-21
How to Get Easy Money.

o CLOCK the evening DeIore tne MIL
ing. Wilson asked him what he was
doing and he told him working hard
to get living and Wilson said
there are easier ways to get money
and he asked him how. Wilson said
he knew where he could get Sl00 by
killing man and he told Wilson
he would not like to get money that
way and asked ii there was no other
way. when Wilson said he was
working and always had at least a
hundred on him. A man coming
up to them then, the conversation
ended. He said he then thought
Wilson was joking, until he heard
of the killing, and then he told the
officers.
J. w. Graham, father of Mrs.
Ruby Rutledge, said he and his
daughter went to Mrs. Britton S
home with Harvey Lee early the
evening OF April ? that he went
home before 10 o'clock and left the
others sitting on the porch; that
his daughter had been there all
evening and was there when he left
Nj. &. Morris, roundhouse fore
man for the Ringing road, told of
coming down the tracks that night
and finding man injured. He
went to the station and returned
with the railroad policeman. The
man had been lying between the
tracks and had turned over on his
back after he first saw him. 1t
is about ten feet between the two
tracks there, he said. He said the
mans clothing was not torn, no
limbs cut off and he saw no wounds
except on his head.
Thad Finley, policeman, testified
that he examined the body of Oscar
Kyle. Policeman ohnson was with
him. They turned the body over
searched it and found knife in his
pocket closed, but saw no other
weapons. kyle's head was beaten
but the clothing was not torn and
there were no wounds other than
on the head He said they searched
all up and down the tracks and
found no blood other than the pool
where the man was lying; that
there was no blood on the ties or
rails. He told OF the wounds on
the head.
DR.. A. G.. Cowles of the Hardy
sanitarum described all the wounds
on the head and said that any one
OF the three would have caused
death, and that Oscar kyle's death
was caused by those wounds. He
found no wounds, scratches or
bruises on the body below the collar
line
Policeman Johnson was with Po-
liceman Finley when they went to
the scene and his testimony was viz
tually the same as Johnson's.
Jim Dustin, for whom the dead
man had worked. was the next wit
ness. He saw the body at the un-
dertaker's and testified there were
no wounds on it except on the head.
He saw pool of blood between the
tracks, but none on the ties or rails.
He was present when Wilson was
arrested and heard him make the
statement. voluntarily, that he was
with Harvey Lee the night before
and that they were with two girls
in Wilmington park. He went with
the officers and Wilson to the coun-
tvs attorneys office. He said VIII
son was taken to Jail and then they
went to hunt for Harvey Lee; that
Lees story was about the same as
Wilson's except that they varied re-
garding the streets they travelled and
where they met the girls.
Confession Admitted in Evidence.
At this point the jury was taken
from the room and the question as
to the admissability Of this evidence,
tending to the establishment of a
purported confession by the defend
ant. was argued at length and later
in the afternoon the jury was again
removed and Sheriff Garrett placed
on the stand for preliminary ques-
tions by the defense. for the pur-
pose of placing the objection fairly
before the court. In both instances
the objection OF the defense was
overruled and the court laid down
the rule that where the statements
made were voluntary they were ad-
missable as against the defendant
and that the old rule where a warn
ing and absence of duresS must be
clearly established had been over
ridden by the decisions of the court
of criminal appeals of Oklahoma
This DESTROYED all objections in the
way OF the introduction OF the con-
fession alleged to have been made
by Wilson. but al : O'Clock last
night Attorney !. l.. Hodge. who is
contesting the case every inch of
the way. again had up an objection
and was insisting that he be al
lowed to present authorities on the
question.
Following the ruling of the court.
the witness. Dustin. told the story
OF Wilson's whereabouts the night
of the killing as he had told it TO
the Officers in the presence of the
witness. Then he told of going to
see Ruby Rutledge and Mrs. Brit
ton and that their stories did not
correspond with Wilson's and Lees
first story.
Ruby Rutledge on Stand.
Mrs. RUBY Rutledge was the next
witness. She told OF Harvey Lee
being at Mrs. Britton's from 8