The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-07
STANLEY GUILTY,
DRAWS Is YEARS

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must be stopped. II spectators wish
to remain i'm the courtroom, they
must remain absolutely quiet ANY /.
more confusion and the courtroom
will bee cleared
Judge cole also instructed the
jury to disregard the question ana
other remarks OF Cros-luud.
Takes n Shot az Gum,
Grassland also made am attempt
to show that the robbery was
planned under the direction Of tn"
bankers association and that no Of
fort was made To notify The ON
cials Of the Spcrry bank.
Are YOU and the bankers associ-
alton engaged In the business o'
promoting bank robhcrics,' Cross
land fired at Gum
40. We are not planning and pro
noting bank rohhUriDs.' Gum re
piled with nome fire, "hut We con
slider Il better to let one bank hc
robbed and catch the robbers than
20 miss the robbers and probably
have SO banks robbed. Almost every
week / hear OF some bank iu the
state being robbed but this a. the
first time ! ever heard about rob
borv being planned
IN his closing argument Grassland
again mentioned his questioning. OF
Gum and with strong emphasis dc
,larcd that things Wcr" coming TO a
bad state when mon framed "a rob
berry invciglcd men into ComWittin-
| the deal and then arrested them.
"This is not the purpose Of the
/ law" shouted Grassland. ''it was not
/ intended 20 frame men and then
| prosecute them. Tho spirit of the
| law is to prevent crime not promote
/ it. as was most certainly done In
/ this case.
"Stanlcy Trccling's superior"
Frank Stanley is bcltcr man
/ than Freezing, after the testimony
/ ne gave on the stand Crosslaud
| shouted I am surprised at the lit
/ tlcucss and methods used 10y the at
/ torncy general Of our state. Stanley
/ was guilty. admitted II, hut his guilt
/ IS insignificant when compared to
/ the attempt OF the attorney general
! OF our state TO get a conviction I'm
/ such a framCup as this. No honest
attorney general would have cntorcd
into such . trial lie would nave
/ Kicked Il out of court.
"But our attorney general was
sent over here by tho governor A.
/ the instance Of the bankers ana
money piled up behind him "a he
, left And then he comes over here
and Crandstands around about what
/ ne will do.
Right here am going 70 stop
his grandstanding In that other
trial he made big flourishcs before
! tho Jury Of what he would do. tie
| comes over here and talks about
cleaning up Tulsa county. lie had
better clean up his hotel whore for
years he has bought whisky I'M
/ mcdiatoly Freezing was on his feet
ohjcctinE TO such remarks and again
the courtroom Uttered with laugh
] ter.
Clean Up Capital, His Advice.
"Yes. object" Grassland shouted,
as he turned to Freezing. you've
got more cleaning up to do in OKLA
| homa City than you can well take
care of. You better clean up the
| state capitol. There Is more work
| than YOU can attend to. Aud why
don't you clean up the infamous cor
poration commission. There * a
! cleanup job that IL in favor Of not
only the citizens Of Tulsa county but
| OF the whole state
Grassland then centercd his efforts
on the case and ended his argument
with an appeal Tor justice. You
| can't honestly DO anything but turn
| that man loose. He helped rob that
| bank, but he was a victim OF a
| frameup Bank officials framed the
| Job, got him into 1t, by Keeping him
drunk, and then arrested him. II
I that Is what you approve Of then