The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-10-16

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Ine attempted CRIME was one o.
tQe most revolving winch mas oe-
CURED III Ukmulgee IN recent years.
mss ARMOUR Atta.ksd
Miss Armour, VINO Is the daugnS
tei ol NIn. Is. .nEnour, local pnAf-
IndclSl, Is u glrI oI epoda~os pepuAa-
uuu, tsnu Is ~ed nkea Dy ali Nn0
KNOW neP.
ohe attends the UkIpulgee BuSir
neSs College wnele SHE 10 stuasanS
evenings 10 become "a SlenoYr aener
On frluay mgnt sac zen IiIe DuSl-
nesS college as SuSal ana was Oh
ner way nome. one mad alInoSt
reached ii Nuen ne1 aSSallant
Junqed from Demnd ana Brasped
ner ny the throat. lie aISo forced
cap over her nose ana mouth, tne
attack Delng made So swiftly sne
Was unable 10 utter sound. her
aSSauant tuen dragged her through
lne Aley MnlcA runs beside ner
mousse 10 the garage just behind II.
Although the girls was not uu-
conscious she was nearing lnSensI-
DllIiy from stranSulallon when tine
Negro dragged her into Inc garage
and believing de was about TO XIII
her she feigned Inconsistencies. II
was this quick-wItted action that
saved the girl, for the Negro, think.
ing she was unconscious, removed
the cap from her face and released
MS grip on her throat. The in
slant he did so she screamed and
the Negro immediately fled. She is
badly marked from the encounter,
there being black and blue marks
on her throat and her eyes were
blackened.
Sheriff Gets BlOOdhounds
For some >reaSon Sheriff Tucker
says, he was not informed of the
attempted assault by the police un-
til this morning. He Immediately
put in long distance calls to Mus
kogee and Tulsa for bloodhound
and a pair of hounds reached here
shortly before noon.
The dogs were taken to the scene
of the attempted crime and the Ne
gro's cap which he had left when
he fled, was used to start the dogs
on a scent. Other evidence which
the Negro had left also helped
the dlogs to pick up the trail as well
as indicating that his attempted
crime had been well planned.
The dogs led the officers two
blocks north and straight to Atchi-
sons house at nth and Morton.
There was no one in the house
when the police arrived. But. the
inquiries netted them the inforlna-
ton that Atchison lived there and
he was employed as barber in
Sheppard's barber shop at All East
Fifth Street.
Arrested in Restaurant
Upon going to the shop the po-
lice were told that he had left there
and was going home to get pair OF
shoes. About 1 80 the sheriff trailed
him to a restaurant, where he was
eating dinner.
When he was informed that he
was under arrest charged with the
attempted assault Atchison is report
ed no to have shown any sign OF
Surpriseor to have made any reSiS-
tance.
At the barber shop where he
worked, ]. S. Shepperd the proprie-
tor, said that Atchison had worked
half and that he had always borne
good reputation as far as he knew
He said he had never known the
prisoner TO be in any kindl of troub-
lie before, and that he had lived in
Okmulgee about three years.
When the cap was found in the
garage and was brought to him to
identify, Shepprd said he had new
er seen Atchison wearing such a
cap. He said that Atchison usually
wore a grey cap or hat. The cap
the police brought for him to iden
tify, Sheppard said was green.
Negroes Adopt Resolutions
At a mass meeting of Colored citi-
zens held at the office of Wallace
and Stephens yesterday, which
meeting was presided over by ID. j.
Wallace, the following resolutions
lationS of the law, were unanimous
ly adopted and pledges made to
carry out the spirit of the same:
Whereas, there appears to be a
reign OF crime and law violation
spreading over the country ana
threatening the fair name of our
city, and including in its wake as
sauhs and attempted assaults upon
women, thereby making it unsafe
for women OF any race; and,
Whereas, joints and loafing dens
are the breeding places of these
crimes, and vagrants and perpetra-
tors thereof.
Resolved, therefore, tht We ex-
press ourselves as unalterably OPP
posed to crimes of any kind, and
of assaults in particular. and do
hereby subscribe our portion OF
thecitizenship of Okmulgee as here
by and herein pledged to exert eve
ry effort on our part to prevent the
perpetrators hereof, and secure
their conviction and punishment by
a just action OF the law thereby