The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-16
BANDITS TO
CHANGE STORIES?
Police Confident That
Prisoners Were in
Hi-Jacking

Ill-J dChlllS
Ottcr arrests are expected this
week by the police In the probe OF
the ~hi-jaching carnival on the roads
out 81 Tulsa thai came to a scnFa.
tional halt last Thursday night
when n young high school student
cracked down upon n OF tho ban
dts.
Although but one confession has as
yet been made the detectives say
that the nerve Of the other five
]prieuncrs held les breaking aud that
possibly n or more may aiSO
toll" thus hoping to ccure possi-
BILE immunity This view tx gain
ing ground ~ victims ~ the hi
ackers continue TO pick out swift
and Allen Us resembling w OF the
men who held them up.
While Elmer T.. Smith. 90. con-
tinucH TO rc%itcratc his confession,
naming himself and three others, in~
ending utvile Allen. lying wound
ed at Tulsa hospital, AZ the party
that stuck up several different cars
on the Sapulpa road, Allen declares
the confession "A lie" lie sHys nc
was shot by bandits on the Collins
willie road.
Roy WORKMAN. Harold HALEY, J.
Alexander and John Campbell, the
D bAAANA ~ A1N'AN'tNf sA'GAAN h'AN 'AfA
pl.city M the affair, but their de-
mcanor and past conduct convince
the police that the men either know
something OF the hi-jacking actiSi-
tics, or were implicated.
A woman, Bcrnicu Dillon. who
va arrested with Wurthdm, has
been released. The police said she
was not connected In any way with
the gang.
The Jordan car in which the ban
dts are said TO have come back 10
Tulsa belongs TO Tommy Dolias. 1t
was recovered by Charles Foor n
\. j. Stowoll, police officers at the
south end OF Riverside drive the
officers said hat the rear scat was
> ataIned with blood.
Smith, Ia has confession 10 the po-
lice, said he had known Allen sew
cral months. lie told the officers
Allen came TO him Thursday ait
cInOon and asked IL he tnmith)
wanted to make some casy mon.y.
and II 10 to be at the West Tulsa
street ear station at 6 O'Clock. There
he met Alien and two men whom
lac did not know. The four rode TO
RED Fork where they got off and
walked to the spot In the Sapulpa
read where they waylaid moturlsJs.
TIP TO the time OF the shooting
Smith said about eight motorists
had been held up. When Alien
was shot. supposedly by wa do
Specs, Smith confessed, the BAN
ais Jumped In specs car DuL kl.,ed
the engine. Dcl,as then drove up
In his Jordan and that was taken.
I'VE drove to Tulsa Smith said,
and got Allen 5 sister ana iiaucy
ana framed "a story that we had been
'Juyriding out ON the C~oIlinsviile
nu add chat Allen was shot py
the ~hi-jackcrs. The other We Non
tuON tue Jordan n the. loot and
departed. have not seen them
since. Haily got his car and we had
started Tor a hospital ON the no.tn
side when we met Casey Jones, po-
lice officer. and after telling HIM
our framed story nc tod Us 10 go
to the police station and an officer
wsuid take US to a hospital"
smith admitted hat h mad been
engaged 10 other awie. n . IN
Tusa. but refused to tell about
thvm.
uaily, a man Of 40 years, who,
, with Roy workman. owns the Elite
= laundry, 407 South Maybeile, ais
confessed to the police that he had
helped frame the story tuat Allen
had been sut by bandits, 81 did
not hcil' the boy he told Chief
Blaine.
tncy asked me to help them ana
J | did'
i.eports on file AT police head
r quarters give evidence to the iact
that the Elite overall factory h d
verltable nest for hi-jlCkers, ac-
yor,ing to officers. ilaiiy and
> Workman were partners iu the bull
meas, hut over the factory lived
Iaily, Workman and the Aliens. A
e raid on the place resulted In %
L# a al ltHI I.HIlW AtiUU IN III uTtHU
along with a quantity OF papers. Al
. 90. she aatly.ua were taken iron
T. Naily's room, According to the Of
, 81 sl~ about 200 United state
payroll notes were also seized. Fave
Oh these had been made out in sum
Is varying lrom 500 TO several hun
m drcd dollars, This seizure threw d
.g new angle on the case and may re
sulJ IN the federal officers taking
hand.
! Alien, white from loss of blood
1ys on his bed at the hospital and
gteadtastly ycitcrates bis innocence
OF ur ht- 'aCkiug ON tho Sapu.pg
!" road. His sister joined him, both
salA.g BE-, ma oeen wounded by HI.
- iackrrs during a holdup on the Col
/, llnsyille road. even hen con.
4 fgouted with the confessions Of
HALEY and Smith. Allen refused I,
zt change his STORY.
- Allen May Recover.
Dr. A. Ray Wiley said that Aller
nigh recover. Ills chances to live
y are good II complications do not Sc
in, the physician said.
l. harges of cOnjoiut robber!
a ara'ust Allen and Smith have beef
y filed in the county attorneys o.
70 a.,,y has been charged will
n assisting a felon to escape. Polio
It officials said that charges OF ca.
.e th,ft will be filed against Smith an,
Allen. These changes, II is said
are for the taking OF Dellas' car
other charges win be filed, the OF
Is ficlals say. as fast as competent eva