The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-06-09
NO NOW UN de r ARR
FOR MURDER OF HENRY SMITH
HARRY K. ELLIS and +. W. MILLER

l remember, he had on striped over
alls, and he come over to the car
where I was, and we talked a lit
tie while, and he got me to get out
and stay all night with him.
The next morning we got up and
went over to Sam Green's for break
fast. Sam Green's had just got
through eating themselves. and
there is where we ate our breakfast.
We went from there to Clarence
Browns five miles and three-quar-
ters from there. went up there to
try to collect a broom corn seeding
bill, and then we come back by Mr..
Bray's and we talked to them a lit
tie while: and then we, come back to
Frank Miller's, and drove up over
there and was going to stay there
and catch way back to Liberal that
evening. and Frank says. No, we will
go to Hooker and we will get back
time for that. Finally he coaxed me
to go with him to Hooker, and when
we got four miles and half from
there he says 'Let's stop and wash
this blood off the car" There was
blood on the running board, and
put two dipperfuls of water into the
radiator, and he washed the blood
off, and we drove right straight in
to Hooker. We stopped at Shem-
ways right south of the Kansas line
and west of Tyrone. It is a mile
90 from MilleTs down to the state
line and take the jog On the Ks~s"q
line east, and Shumway lives right
up on the hill, and we went from
there right straight into Hooker.
O. What did you stop at Shum-
ways for? A. To wash the blood
off.
It must have been about eleven
o'clock when we got into Hooker,
and l parked the car in front of the
drug store. and he told me he would
go in and get some cigars, and for
me to drive the car up to the garage
and he said for me to have it washed
and shined and have the battery
charged, and he would be right up
there. I stayed there at the garage
he told me to stay there-and ]
stayed there some time, guess
twenty minutes, or maybe thirty,
and he hadn't never come, and !
walked back there, and he met me
at the drug store and we went to
the restaurant and ate hamburger
apiece, and drank a cup of coffee,
and so when we got through with
that he picked up a piece of paper
and envelope, and he called me back
there and he told me what he had
done, he had murdered Henry Smith
and he said that had to write that
letter to Pete Smith, and l first re-
fused to do it, and he said if I didn't
write that letter and do as he said.
that I was the next boy for him.
And then he pulled out different
envelope and paper out Of his pock-
ct and made me write second let
ter, right there in the restaurant. I
wrote two letters.
And we went from there to the
barber shop. and he got shave and
/ set there in a chair and waited
and the barber asked me If there
was anything for me, and I told
them No, / was just resting. Went
from there to the postoffice, and
mailed this here letter that he mail
ed at Hooker, and went from thero
to the depot and he brought both
tickets, and bought one for Tyrone
and bought mine for Liberal. And
as we was coming on the train, just
before we got to Tyrone, he said
If l ever squealed he was going to
kill me. / got in Liberal on No. 2
Tuesday evening, and went home
Tuesday night. / was home Wednes-
day all day and went fishing We'd
nesday night. and Thursday / went
back out to Mr.. Folks, me and an
other boy, and we taken the girls
to show in Hooker. And went home
Thursday night from there, and
Friday morning, taken sick and
brought me to the hospital Friday
evening, and here is where have
been ever since
@ Where did Miller get off?
A. He got off at Tyrone.
Q. What was his idea for getting
off at Tyrone?
A. don't know that. And one
thing I left out. When he told me
about that murder. / says, "Frank,
why did you do dirty trick like
this" says, Hank Smith is
friend OF mine." and I says ~ went
to school with him." and he told me-
to 20 on and write that letter and
sNvt my darn mouth. 1t wasn't none
Of my business. SO
@. This first letter you wrote
A. I wrote both letters at Hook
er there in the restaurant.
q. And you headed one!
A. He made me date one ct Elk
hart, and dated IL two or three days