The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-02

was strQlling around on the West
Side among the saloons and haunis
over near the Dcsplaines street no.
lice station just casually strpiling
along. lie say a fellow walkinr
down the street who Kept looking
back at intervals. lie followed him
FOR a couple Of blocks and every
once in a while he'd look back lie
followed him into n cheap lodging
house and put his hand on the fell
lows shoulder AZ ne sat there pre-
tending to read a newspaper.
lie said, They want YOU down
here at the police station"
There he confessed that he'd COM
mitted the murder Of that man
away back in November and hid his
body up there iie said it vas Ia
selt-dofense, but they convicted him
any way Ultimately something viii
happen to bring mcn to Justice.
In Iowa at the close OF tho war
a soldier got into a fight with a man
and shot him. He fled and they
weren't able TO locate MIN. Forty
years afterwards man In Missouri
made application To the United
states government for a pension
and In the application, he, OF course.
had to apply under the name by
which he enlisted and which was his
right name and In that way, my
friends, they got track OF him.
The officials Of Iowa went to Mis-
ouri tand asked for extradition pa
pcrs. They presented the matter
and II was granted They brought
him back to Iowa. and he was tn
dicted and 200 Of the dcpunblc citi-
zens of that community chartered
special trains and came back volun-
! tarily as chacter witnesses, for that
man was married ana nau grand
children Then they said, He is the
most respectable citizen In the com
munity,"
They presented the evidence He
was convicted and sentenced to the
penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa
and later Governor Cummings par
doncd the man. After 40 years his
application for his pension revealed
his whereabouts, and who he was
and he supposed they'd all forgotten.
In Illinois in town where Z
| preached n farmer went TO town
| and drew several hundred dollars
| from the banX. lie drank liquor
| and Just after dark he was seen TO
unite his horses and start home.
| He was never seen alive again.
In the morning they found the
team standing at the gate and they
! found the lines wrapped around the
whip and the blanket was folded
and lying on the seat. There was no
! evidence Of struggle. They couldn't
| find the missing man and finally
| thev arrested "A nc.ghhor who had
! had a quarrel with him. The man
/ readily proved an alRi, but they
were sure that he was the man al
| though thCy couldn't convict him.
| Two years after that, he sold his
| farm and moved away, Years and
years went by. ard they had long
| hot spell In Illinois and on TINS
mans farm was a pond fed by a
| spring, and never known TO go dry.
| But the hot sun sucked II dry ana
! out in the middle they found the
| skeleton OF a man with n log chain
| and on that was the initial OF the
| man who had been arrested. So
| therefore. they secured the country
and found him out I'm Pasadena, Call
! dying from consumption lhey GOT
! out eXtradition papers They sent
! officers, He was too sick to move,
| but they constantly watched MIN
/ and a few hours before he dicd, ne
| confessed that he had committed
! the murder and taken the man
| body out on the pond. Something
] VIII happen lldl VIII W ms 'NN 49,
fact that they are sinners
I nreached down in West Virginia
not far from Wheeling, whore there
/ is a very sick man. lie loaned mon
ev 10 the farmers all around. the
paople supposed that he kept Vasl
sums Of money in the house ana
two men went there to rob him. WIN
intent of numbering II they had 10
/ pefore going to the house they wen'
10 the barn and took n two hN fou'
and they Whitfield IL down 50 peN
couId get hold of H. They went tC
the house and the man resisted ano
thew pounded him to pulp ahu
thev fled. 49,,
There we're living with him two
relatives and they phoned Tor thS
police In wheeling They threw .ou,
the drag net and long about ll'S'
the arrested two men az rolu'
house where they sat drinking ON
of them had a criminal record , 40
body knew the ~other ihey
searched the men and tney ma ma
nothing but a jackknife. They nae
~ .pnso disguesos that they put ovel
their face with holes cut throusi
for their eyes. ,,,,,
They brought those two men bacf
o,d they indicted them. one o
tben, vas named John Moody. The!
/ didn't know the other fellows name
Asthe Indictment was returned thel
Indicted him under the name
Frank Fry, and the trial was caIlcu
INV friend who~was then pros''u'
ling attorney was prosecuting ul'
case The lawyer for the detenS'
arose and made an appeal INA
they'd take the matter out OF IN, IN,
hands OF a jury for they had lalle,
to establish their guilt ana tn.r
uosn't very much evidence. Nv
crything was purely ciroumStantia'
Frank Ncsbitt took one or ines
rnagnifying glasses they use IN JeW,
plry stores. He picked up the knlI
Itbat had been taken, from the MAJ
and he saw two little hicks about al
ciphth o1 an inch apart that the,
had overlooked He got up an,
licked up this two hy four ana ealul
"Whoever whitfield that, Whit'l",'
II with knife that had two nloe
i'm the blade" and he ttt'd tuos
ricEs into the groove and they il.,'n
shoving that whoever whittitu .ha a
two by four, Whitfield 1t WIN III"
p jackknife. MI,
lie laid that matter before ~
fury and they convicted those , ilr'
70 he hung i'm MOundsvllle pehlle, !,