Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-04-09
WROTE LETTER UNDER
THREAT, WOMAN SAYS
Mary Attcrbury Declares, Drunken
Indian Forced Writing ~
Obscene Note.
SEVERAL MINOR CASES TRIED
Chciscnn Accused oT EVadlng Draft ;
Mark Readers Hearing
Comes Up Today

Charged with sending an obscene
letter through the malls Mary Lee
Attrrbury, who IL on trial In the
federal district court admitted yes
terday that while she had written
the letter lteWas at the dictRtion ot
Mrs. Nat Bryugt an Indian woman,
who held slN-shootcr on her to
see that she dld what she was told
To- do Mrs Bryant was drinking at
the time. the defendant also testi-
fled. and she felt compelled to obey
her commands. she denied that she
had mailed the letter. and said she
did not know who mailed IT,
This lA the second trial or the
case following the arrest OF the wo-
man, who gave her age Ak 20, and
said she had been married about
three months to IA MIR Coffman Of
Caddo, ana had chtld by former
marriage The jury failed To agree
In the first triul Of the case at Mus
korcc a
The letter wAs addressed to Nat
Bryant and was unsigned n com
tained many vulgar and obscene
statements, which led to the arrest
~ the woman after Mr. Bryant had
sent the letter TO Assistant District
Attorney Walter Turnhun. who
turned II over 10 the postal author
ltics A letter that Mary Lee At
t~rbury wrote TO ELI Crowder, with
whom she was on friendly terms,
accompanied the letter containing
the obscene language II had been
found Ivy Mr. Bryant and the hand
writing OF the two being very SIM
llar led 10 the arrest of the After
bury woman.
bryant Woman Jealous.
Crowder. an Indian, who Is
cousin OF Mrs, Bryant was on a
visit at Caddo when he met Mary
Lee Atterbury, and friendship
grew up between them. which was
not pleasing to Mrs Rryant Al
about this time, In February. 1917.
the letter was written to Bryant
The government contends that the
defendant wrote and mailed the lot.
ter. and introduced testimony TO that
effect yesterday The purpose. It is
said, was To cause discurd I'm the
Bryant family The contention OF
the defense Is that Mrs Bryant com
mandcd the Atterhury woman to
write IL under threats OF shooting
her and Intended II 20 he a letter
to Mr.. Bryant from one OF his for
mer Ewcethcarts. and that the de-
fendant did not mail It Mrs. After
bury was Sun on the stand and her
cross examination had been started
by Assistant District Attorney phlpps
when court adjourned The cnse
VIII be resumed this morning at
0:lO,
The trial OF Give Colbert. a bar
bcr ut Chelsea. on charge OF fail
ure to register FOR military service.
was heard yesterday, but the Jury
had not reached verdict when
court adjourned. II will take up the
case again this morning
Colberts defense involved the
truthtulncsa Of transcript OF a
Bihle family record According 10
~, Colbert was over 81 on June 3.
1871 and was not within the select
I've draft age The government al.
torncys insisted that the record could
not be relied on, for. as they de.
Clared. the entries claimed To have
been transcribed from an old Bible
ln 1909, and an entry OF death In
1919 were In the same handwriting.
the same color of ink. written by
the same pen, and failed tu show the
lapse Ct ten years. Further evi-
dcncc offered by the government
was an application Tor membcrship
IN "a lodge made In Garyln county In
1914, signed by Colbert. who thcr
gave his age Us 90, with other lodge
records giving the same age. regis.
tration for voting iu 1915. when Col
bert gave his age as IS, and stll
other lodge records
The defense ON these points
was that there were disrrcplncic.
tn those records, and that Colbert
was mistaken in his age at those
times The parents and other rel
atives testified that he was over Al
at the time OF the registration The
case was given TO the jury late yes
terday afternoon.
Pleads Guilty 20 Introducing.
Harry House ot Sand Springs who
lead guilty to Introducing whisky.
was sentenced to sixty DAYS I'm hil
and a fine OF 500. Dan Gains. ar
rested recently in Okwulg,c uu
charge OF introducing entered "a
plea OF guilty yesterday and wa.
sentenced 10 ninety duNs m Ht am,
given fine ot 500.
j. U, knight OF Tulsa. who cu.
tered plea OF guilty uu charge
was given niucty da1 /.
In Iail and IA fine ot tlpU
steve perrSb and Anton Chea
heat charged with bringing Iuuur
into the state, had their cases con
unued
- Mark Reader formerly sheriff Of
McClain county elected ON the So