Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-01-29
SOME FACTS ABOUT MURDER
or NJ. l.. Alexandcr-A Letter from
His Daughter.

| Wilburn Alexander, of the Cone
ross section, has received the follow
ing letter from Mrs. Rogers, daugh-
ter of the late NJ. l.. Alexander, Of
| Ardmore, Okla, whose recent MUIR
der was chronicled. There are many
old friends of the deceased who will
be glad to learn even these few facts
with reference to the unfortunate
| mysterious tragedy that cost Mr..
Alexander's life. The letter follows:
Ardmore, Okla, Jan. 13, 1919.
Dear Uncle Wilburn:
Your letter just received. and we
have been anxious to write to all
Of you sooner, but we have been in
such distress that we have not been
able to think clearly. Added to our
already great sorrow, DR.. Rogers had
pneumonia the night following the
funeral and was desperately i'll all
night and the doctors said we must
take him over to the hospital, which
we did in an ambulance, and sent
for our superintendent Of nurses
and another graduate nurse and q
lung specialist from Oklahoma City
| within twelve hours after the funer
/ al, as he had been staying up by
! main force to look after things, for
the rest of us were so crushed we
| pOlI11 what n n Than
added to all this. mama and Roy
| were taken down with the "nu" the
next morning and | had to send for
nurse for them. which left only
Jerome and me up to try to look after
, things, with DR.. Rogers at the hospi-
lal and mama and Roy in bed here
at the house. Consequently we hard
| " know what has happened within
| the last three weeks. Mama and
Roy are up. but mama is still very
weak and so heart-broken that she
annOt write, SO asked me to write
ou folks for her, as this is the
, very first letter we have attempted
! - write at all. We depended on DR..
! togers and Jerome to telegraph you
- soon as we could, for Roy went
! Immediately out to the farm after
! apa.
/ We wrote Il long night letter to
dger. but | found to-day in going
ihrough the kilograms and letters
! iAat this was not sent. We wrote
! ont list of names and asked the
Ardmorite to mail copy to each of
( You, which you should have received
! within few days after the tragedy
lat. as ] say, Rov was verv sick in
--- and we had TO do ,hn best we
could
h.rty huow just ncw 70 hegfu
''' r"t. ynu OF TINS uwCG ,hlng. Il
s., ems there is no place to begin, and
! 10 end: but | will try to give you
me idea as best | can and tell
/ : II all that we know about it.
Papa had invited some of his best
. ''lcnds here to go out TO the farm
sth him on Il hunting trip, among
/ EN- being two Of the foremost law
F'rs here and county attorney.
- ong with these went two prosDec-
. ie renters. The party left here
nursday afternoon and got out to
. 'He farm for supper and spent the
! "ight. Some Of them stayed a; one
! 'enter's, and papa stayed with his
! 1oreman, Mr.. Russian.
/ After breakfast the next morning.
ne hunters went hunting, and papa,
! long with Mr.. Russian and these
( NO prospective renters, went walk
to show these two men the farm
! - be rented. They had gone about
: IL quarter of mile, guess, when
! ley heard shots from an unknown
Lace. One of the men said after
/ first shot, '"That's mighty close
! lo our heads" Immediately another
mot just missed them and all four
| began to run. The third shot follow
'H Immediately, which struck papa
rough the heart and he fell dead
he shots continued on the other
en until they were evidently out of
range.
The man with them and Mr.. Rus
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