The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-21
EVIDENCE IN WILSON
CASE is ENDED
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knew nothing about where they
were found other than what the
negro had told him.
Pinder Stan6eld, the next wit
ness. testified to having seen Tom
Mckinney pick up the knife and
stick near the scene OF the killing.
Mrs. Florence Nestal, 4 sister-lr-
law and cousin OF the dead man,
heard Oscar Kyle say on Jan. i,
1918. that he got Wilson to board
at his house that he might have d
uc,te- chance to XII h:'. - te,
tilted that she told Wilson of the
threat, but that he continued to
stay there.
Mrs. Young, who said she lived
at Gypsy Camp, said one tine with
in the last eight months Oscar
Kyle came to her house, while she
was living in Ardmore, and want
ed to make love to her, but she re-
pulsed him because he was mar
ried man. He accused her OF think
ing more of Jim Wilson than she
did of him and made threats to-
ward Wilson. She said she never
told Wilson about it ard never
told anybody except Mrs. Nestal.
This was all the evidence intro
duced by the defense. The defend
ant did not go on the witness
stand.
In rebuttal, the state called Tom
Mckinney, negro, and he told OF
finding the knife and stick about
twenty feet from the scene OF the
killing, inside the rail of the north
track. under the end OF q freight
car and near the wheel OF the car.
Sheriff Buck Garrett was recalled
and said early in the morning after
the killing, and before i'm Wilson
was arrested, he was at Oscar
Kyle's house and i'm Dustin asked
him to talk to Mrs. Ncstal. He
said he took her in the yard and
t IT She said she knew who killed
Oscar Kyle. He asked her WHO
she thought killed him and she
said Jim Wilson killed him, ard
cried and said she feared her broth
er, Harvey Lee. was going to be
arrested. That was before an ar
rest had been made in the case.
Widow on Stand.
The jury was completed at ?
o'clock yesterday afternoon and
Mrs. Oscar Kyle, widow of the dead
man, was the first witness called to
the stand. She told OF leaving home
with her husband the evening OF
his death, she going with her chill
dren to her mothers house and he
going on up town, promising to be
home beween 8 and Q O'Clock. On
croSs-examination she told of Will
son, the defendant, having boarded
with her and her husband three dif
ferent times. She said her husband
had threatened to kill Wilson sew
eral times and one time. with a pis-
tol in his hand, he had said he would
kill him. She denied that he had
ever threatened to kill both Wilson
and herself. She had seen him make
an attempt to assault Wilson. She
was not unusually friendly with Will
son. This last statement was
brought out on redirect eXamina-
ton. as was also the fact that Will
son had written her a note while he
was in jail. She denied that she
told Sheriff Garrett that the trouble
between Wilson and her husband
was over her. She said she filled
out her husbands QUESTIONABLE and
he was placed in class 4. Her hus-
band accused Wilson of trying to
get him in class !.
Lee Told of Frame Up"
Harvey Lee was the next witness.
He testified to the 'irame-up' Viii
son asked him to agree to early the
next morning after the killing and
that he agreed to stand by Wilson
il he was innocent and it was agreed
he should swear that he and Wilson
were in Wilmington park that
night, with Ruby Rutledge and an
unknown woman. from 8 TO II /
o'clock, when Wilson went to town
to get tobacco and that when Viii |
son returned the others were gone.
He said he was not at Whiting
ton park that night, but was at the
home of Mrs. Britton with Ruby
Rutledge from s O'Clock in the even
ing TO between | and o'clock in
the morning. He said after he was
arrested he told the officers about
the "frame-up." He told of Wilson
waiting al the Santa Fe track for
him while he went TO the sanitarium
to see if Kyle was still living. In
The morning Jim Wilson came to
the Britton house and asked for
him. and Mrs. Britton told him he
was not there. but that at the time
he was lying across the bed in the
south room.
Sam Allard. the next witness.
said Mrs. Lee asked him to find
Harvey Lee the night after the kill
ing and he went with Wilson to the
home of Mrs. Britton and asked for
him. 1t was about 80 or o'clock
in the morning and he asked for
Harvey Lee. The house was dark.
Mrs. Britton came TO the door and
said Lee was not there. Wilson
talked OF the killing and said it was
bad affair. He said Wilson was
all unnerved. jumped into shadow
every time they heard an automo-