The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-01-16
Takes Bunk of Jail Breaker who
Wants Bed Back Whom Cap
tured; Brawl Fc lows
and Fight Stars
THEY TWO TIMED ME"
SAYS WOUNDED BLACK
Tells Story of Scrap; Washboard
and Knife Used He Declares
Officer Finds Weapons
lii Jail.

Lonnie Wilder, negro, is suffering
from two knife wounds and an in
vestigation is under way that may
result in serious charges being filed
against two inmates Of the Grady
county Jail as a result of a fight that
occurred in the jail last night.
The fight, according to the story
told by Wilder, seems to have start
ed over a dispute as to the owner
ship of a bunk in the Jail The neg
70 also maintains that the Yates
brothers, white men "two-timed" him,
one of them using a wash board ana
the other a knife.
Wilder's Story of the Fight
Wilder was taken out of the jail
and medical attention given. He
was transferred to the back room in
the sheriff's office where he was
seen this morning. J. E. Yates, one
of the principals in the fight is one
of the trio that escaped might be-
fore last when Mrs Laird, wife OF
the jailer was taking the dishes out
OF Lge Jail.
In speaking of the fight, Wilder
said, This big Yates, you know, had
made his getaway the night before.
After he was gone, took his bunk.
They caught him and brought him
back to Jail guess it was about 8
o'clock last night when the fight
started Anyway we had gone to
to he'd.
Quarrel over Bunk
"Yates told me l had to give up
his bunk. didn't care anything
about his bunk, but l started kiddin
him. ] told him he didn't have any
right to the bunk cause he had run
out of the Jail over woman We
argued about it some and | says,
after what you've done, you ought
to be satisfied to sleep in the bath
tub and live on bread and water
81 was just kiddin but he got sore
and when said that he grabbed up
the wash board and hit me with it
When he done that I grabbed him
and we started scufflin around the
Jail. With that, Walter Yates this
fellows brother, jumped in and cut
me a couple of times with knife.
That's about all there was to it"
Has Two Wounds
The result of the cutting is two
wounds, one wound, which is several
inches in length is across the back |
and the other in the left hip. The |
seriousness of the wound in the
back is probably not fully determin-
ed, but it is thought that the negro
is not in danger losing his life.
VIM. Stacy, assistant county attor-
ney, stated this morning that after
an investigation it is probable that
CndISeS VIII Dc lIiSd oSdlhot tHO
Yates brothers They are in Jail on
charges of disposing of mortgaged |
property. They formerly lived in
this county near Alex.
Weapons in Jail
After the fight, Walter Jones,
deputy sheriff, went into the jail
and made a rigid search for weapons. !
What he found was a revelation to
the officers Enough war material
to supply a small sized bolsheviki
army was discovered Principal |
among this was an iron bar probably |
three feet long and weighing several
pounds. With it man could kill an
OK to say nothing of trusting jail
er or officer who might inadvertently /
give the opportunity. In addition |
was a bludgeon two and a half feet |
long. plus smaller irons, heavy wire
for jail-breaking operations and an
iron tool sharpened at one end like /
a chisel and wrapped with tape. |
This had been used in mortar dig
ging and the big bar also showed |
evidences that it had figured in op-
erations. The knife with which ;he
neqro was wounded was not found