The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-02
No Bond Allowed Dewitt Hamil-
ton, subject to Action Dis
trict Court, Court Room
Crowded at Prelim,
DEFENSE FAILS SHOW
HAND AT EXAMINATION
Little Testimony Used; Eye Wit
nesses Tell of Shooting that
Caused Death of Grant
Franklin, Negro.

Charged with killing Frank Frank
lin, negro, Dewitt Hamilton, also
a negro was held without bond by
Justice T. p. Moore at the prelimi-
nary hearing yesterday afternoon,
and must await the action of the
district court.
That the affair had created a great
deal of excitement and interest in
the negro quarter of the city was
evidenced by the fact that before
time set for the trial the court room
was jammed to overflowing with
colored people, who despite the heat
stayed on the job until the court had
rendered a decision and the defend
ent had been taken back to Jail
Few witnesses were used on either
side, the state confirming its case to
the testimony of couple of eye wit
nesses, the undertaken who had
charge Of the body, certain members
of the police force and the owner
OF the car in which the deceased was
sitting when killed.
Detendent Gave Up.
Bob LOoney, night sergeant at the
police station was placed on the
stand and testified that last Satur-
day night or rather Sunday mogn-
Ing about 1890 or 1900 o'clock, De-
Witt Hamilton cams to the police
station and wanted to give himself
up The witness stated that HamiI-
ton had said that he had KILLED
Niger, but he wouldn't run, even if
they hang me. He has been run
ming over me for three or four years.
| couldn't stand II any longer, so
just went and got a gun and killed
him. NowI want to give up"
The testimony of Bill Thomas,
former patrolman Of the police force,
testified to practically the same
points, adding thar Hamilton had
taken him to the place where he had
thrown the gun after the shooting,
and that the gun was recovered.
Thomas also took the defendent to
the county jail.
Eye Witnesses On Stand.
Two negroes, Bige Taylor and Jim
Moore, eye witnesses to the shoot,
we called to the stand, their testi-
mony being practically the same.
They stated that they were sitting
ON the steps of the old Emanuel
Feed hotel which is but a short dis
tance from the place where the
shooting occurred
Witnesses saw the defendant come
across the street from the east, ap.
proach the car in which the deceased
was sitting, fire several shots from
revolver, then back away and walk
away, south on Second street They
testified that previous to the shoot
ing, they saw the sur in which the
deceased and Ed Williams was rid
ing, approach the Carter hotel and
stop in front.
Car Owner on Stand.
Ed Williams, cousin to both the
defendant and the deceased stated
or the stand that he and Grant
Franklin, the deceased, had Just at
tended a social of some kind and had
driven to Second street late Satur-
day night to get something to eat.
Williams said he had gone into the
Carter hotel to get some water for
his car when he heard the shots.
Williams son was the first to
reach the side of the deceased after
the shooting, although the witness
ran out as quickly as possible. He
said Franklin was sitting in the
car in exactly the same position
in which he left him and was dead
when the witness reached the car.
Undertaken Makes Statement.
c. C. Leonard, undertaken who had
charge of the body told of the
wounds he discovered, stating that
the deceased was shot five times, any
one Of them, except one being suf-
ficient to produce death. Three