The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-12
GRADY BAR PETITIONS
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that on the 10th day of March, 1919,
the said Oscar Simpson as an attor-
ney at law, filed in the district court
of Grady county, Oklahoma, a petit
tion for divorce, the said cause being
numbered 5655 and styled E. e.
Wheeler VS.. Elizabeth Wheeler and
which said petition is signed, oscar
Simpson, attorney for plaintiff
"Your petitioners therefore aver that
the terms and conditions of said stip-
ulations and agreement have been
broken by the said Oscar Simpson
and that by reason thereof this hon
orab!e court should at once cancel
the license of the said Oscar Simp-
son as an attorney at law within the
state Of Oklahoma"
Bribery is Alleged.
The petition takes up the subjects
of alleged bribery and cites several
cases, charging that oscar Simpson,
while county attorney of Grady coun-
ty during the year 1917 and the year
1918, did receive and accept from one
Emanuel Reed, upon divers occas-
ions, large sums Of. money, which
said sums of money were paid to the
said Oscar Simpson in order to OBJ
tain from the said Oscar Simpson
immunity from prosecution of the
said Emanuel Reed and to obtain
from the said Oscar Simpson the dis
missal of certain criminal cases pend
ing in the county court and district
court of Grady county. and
that said money was paid to the said
Oscar Simpson by the said Emanuel
Reed for the sole and only purpose
to obtain dismissal of said causes
and to secure immunity from prose
cution and that by reason of
said bribes so received by Oscar
Simpson, immunity was given Eman-
uel Reed the said Emanuel
Reed being at all times hereinabove
mentioned, engaged in the unlawful
and Illicit sale of Intoxicating liquor
in Grady county and with the full
knowledge and consent of the said
Oscar Simpson in all violation of the
oath of the said Oscar Simpson as
an attorney at law and a public Off
cer."
Other Counts.
Several other counts are referred
to in the petition, among them being
Simpson did receive and accept
sums of money from one Andy Car
ter, upon the consideration, promise
and understanding ON the part of the
said Oscar Simpson that he, Oscar
Simpson would cause to be dismissed
a certain criminal action against the
said Andy Carter" ~
The petition further sets forth that
Sam Cook, Thad Turner, Bill Estes
John Gragg, Paul Edgar, jim Greek,
Jim McRea and Leonard Larson were
operating gambling houses in Chicka.
sha and that Oscar Simpson was at
divers times paid large sums of mon.
ey by the said persons operating said
gambling games, to Oscar Simpson
for the purpose of securing immunity
from prosecution"
A specific charge is set out in the
petition that Simpson received from
Lee Elledge the sum of $26.75 to se-
then pending in the county court of
Grady county and which sum the
said Simpson represented to the said
Elledge was the costs accrued in.said
cause" and that said money was
never paid to the clerk or Judge of
said court or received by Grady coun-
ty."
Other specified sums as set out in
the petition are $lS.75 from Jess Tay-
lor; and 5000 in a case against Mitch
Freeman said to have been paid by
Freeman to Hodge Bailey, sheriff, as
cash bond and that Simpson there
upon demanded the said sum of 5000
which was paid by the said Hodge
Bailey to the said Oscar Simpson"
who "wilfully, unlawfully,
fraudulently and corruptly did ap-
propriate and embezzle the whole
sum of 5000 to his own and benefit" Z"
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