The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-06


Editor world read your Editorial about the
popular bandit Mr.. Carlisle, on Thursday aud
u pleased me YOU told in few words about
his claims for public consideration. lie has
none, aud VIII have TO suffer the consequences.
ON the front page OF the same issue uf Tho
World which contained your co,nments 1 read
story dated at Douglas Wyo by a staff cor
respondent The Douglas article tells how tho
bravo train robber Is smiling and suffering In
he hospital "A deputy sheriff snys the cor
'"spondcnt sitting In an adjoining room with
a rife across HIS lap. watches the wounded
man through "A mirror, FOR they even yet fear
Wlld Hll Carlisle"
Tho brave crook Is feared by tho cowardly
iHw enforcers-thats the idea isn't IT. That's
how IT appears. At an events
In the succeeding paragraph II is recorded
chat tho bandit Is Eamely fighting death 'as he
Fought capture rcgunr honest-tu goodness
hero That's what Rll is. The story concludes
~ follows;
There Is only admiration and sympathy for
Rundlt Bill Carlisle throughout this section OF
The country There are few who are glad he IN
captured and rumors are developing that hIi
shooting was uniustfied'
There you have 1t IN plain language. This
poor tragic. prosecuted young man WIS shot
without cause, Everybody admres him. Every
body ~ Smpathizci with him.
That no was train robher and dIsreRarded
all the rules OF honest living is known to tho
public Hc Is nm escaped convict and gunman.
lie would have murdered his pursuers had ho
obtained the drop on them. That would have
tecn iustitable homicide presumably But the
bold, bad, wicked sheriff captured him ana he
was wouudod-and there are rumurs that the
shooting was unjusiified!
Fine work the part OF tho Douglas propa-
gandlst IIo is playing mp tho hero stuff In fine
style 1t makes good reading for our growing
boNH OF the sharp shooting west They
taught from their earliest childhood to thrill
at the deeds Of the brave highwnymcu. The
moving picturrs show the 9ads how wonderfully
romantic and heroic are the men OF the efficient
stick up and the marvellous getaway. The lads
learn how shoot They practice on sparruws
at first with tloher rifles Later they own
IeNoNcrs Then. instead Of learning how TO
their fists as old fashioned disputants did. thoy
pull their EuBs. II their moral nature IL tlnbhy
Ia spots they may put their guns to other
uses Not few ot them engage In the in
dUstp OF rubhing banks. railroad trains and
.ono pedestrians. Sonetim they are caught
nm Carlisle was but usually they get away
with the things they set out 10 get and 1.-Two
gulshod oklahoma OK -handltsl. or they arc
Elurifiei hy newspaper writer's Ike this chap
who pulls the eulogy about the noble des-
perado IHll Carlisle.
ovrr-run with stIck-up men and that wo ara
-HpphiuE them I'm great numbers for service
IN tha astonishe east
L. it surprising that pedestrians are not safo
ga walk about the streets at night Not AT all.
We are freely coudoniug crime In cases Nko
mat of Carlisle knd are making the work Ot
The sher,ffs and The police more difficult by
the attitude We adopt toward cheap, lazy thugs
Nho seek to I've by rohhing honest men and
rlupunr under foot that safety and protec-
ZION which civilization has provided for man
Kind
Newspapers that are playing UP Carlisle ns
UpTscrufci hero ara assisting In fostering and
encouraging thieves n they called Carlisle
.h.rt 'h,y would tell what he IL Rut no. he Is
10 romantic figure. q n1odcr~. Claude Duval. n
chyolry is what ro, We'd better can 4.
TENDERFOOT