The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-13
N|NE-YEAR-OLD
CHILD EYE WITNESS
DAUGHTER OF THE LANDERS
SEES MOTHER KILL FA-
THEIR AND GRAND
FATHER.
It OCCURRED At 6 A. NJ.
Camp Near Clinton Schoolhouse Is
Scene of Terrific Struggle Early
Today-Domestic Difficulty Be-
lieved to Be Foundation of Crime.

Mrs. Ida Landers is in the count,
Jail charged with the murder of he
former husband, William Landers
and his father, c. T. Landers, tn,
latter 20 years of age.
The killing occurred this morning
about e o'clock in camp near the
Clinton Schoolhouse, about six mile!
east of Ardmore. Deputy Sheriff
Horace Kendall and County Attor
ney A. J. Hardy went to the scene
OF the killings before 7 o'clock anc
brought the bodies of the men to ar
undertaking establishment.
Called Car at $40 A. M.
Tom Fuller, Is years old, driver
OF service car, said he was ASLEEP
in his car this morning at about
$50 o'clock in front of restaurant
when a call came for car. He re-
sponded and on going to the tele-
phone was told to come to the old
Selvidge business college, where he
found woman he afterwards
learned was Mrs. LanderS. She bar
gained for him to take her to a
schoolhouse that he supposed was
the Hignight school. She got in the
car and on reaching that point she
said that was not the schoolhouse,
but was the one farther on and on
the other side of the road. They
drove on and about one-half mile
this side of the place he saw her
fumbling in her bosom and holding
large black hat over her hand and
he supposed from what occurred
later that she was taking a gun from
her dress.
Near that schoolhouse she told
him to stop the car, when she got
out and walked to camp where
Landers and his father were asleep
on pallet on the ground. A dog
began barking and Landers rose up
and called to the dog two or three
times.
The woman then went close to
the pallet and asked Landers where
they were going. He told her they
were going to chop cotton and that
she could go in town and see where
they had registered to go to the
farm. She told him she had heard
they had started to Arkansas, and
he said he had not. She told him
man had told her they had camped
there last night.
e-Year-Old Girl Eye Witness.
The little girl. their 9-year-old
daughter, who was on a pallet near
the two men and Mrs. Landers, said.
Sister, get up and come over here
by me- The little girl got up and
Went to her mother. She stopped
over and kissed the child. Then the
car driver heard nothing more said
until the shooting began. The men
were sitting on the pallet and at the
first shot the elder man, {. T. Ian
ders, fell over on his face and did
not move again. He had been shot
through the heart. The next shot
entered the right breast of William
Landers and he jumped and grabbed
a nchester. She caught hold OF
the Winchester and both were
struggling for its possession when
The car driver caught it and in the
scuffie it was discharged. the powder
burning the drivers hand. Landers
got possession OF it and was trying
TO reload il or throw out a shell
when she again grabbed it after he
had pointed it at her. The woman
cried, Man. man, take me to town"
Struggled for Rife.
There was another Winchester
and a shotgun there and Landers
got another Winchester and had it
pointed toward the ground when
The driver took it from him. Lam
lers and the woman fought all
around and when the driver started |
oward the car Landers said, do |
lot 60 off and leave her here" The
title girl had been standing on the
ar and when she jumped off the
iriver said he looked around and
hey were fighting again. Landers