The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-02
French Garrison Pohsh.
Front Attacked BY 5000.
Huns; Enemy is Repulse'
DEFENDANT TELLS
GRUESOME STORY
OF TORTURINGS BY.
HOSPITAL DOCTORS
MAN ACCUSED OF MURDER AL
LEGES NuSTREATMENT BY Of
FICERS AND ATTENDING
MEDICAL MEN

Kansas City. June 2.-The defense
in the case Of Densel Chester, accused
of the murder Of Miss Florence Barton,
rested its case this morning with the
understanding that it Will be allowed to
introduce one more witness this after
noon.
The state in rebuttal, called ]. A.
Rupert. a former policeman, who tes-
titled that he saw Chester and Fred
Roberts in a motor car In front OF his
place between 10 and IL o'clock the
night Of October 2. He said there was a
third man In the car with them.
Both Chester and Roberts have denied
on the stand that there was a third
man with them. Rupert said the car
In which the men were riding was an
old dusty looking touring car, modei
1916 or 1917. The state has contended
and It's witnesses have testified that
three men, riding in a car Of the make
and model described. stopped beside the
car in which Miss Barton was killed ana
that one of the men, alleged to be
Chester, fired the shot that killed her.
Chester and Roberts both have testifie,t
that they We're riding in u car OF this
make, but that il was a much later
model, and that the paint on 1t was
in good condition, not dusty or rusty
looking.
Chester told yesterday on the witness
stand Of being slugged and beaten into
insensibilIty by John W. Farrel, a
| private detective, in the state room OF
a Pullman car, while being brought
from Great Falls. Mon, to Kansas City,
TO face charge of numbering Miss
Barton.
The beating occurred, ne said, after
he refused TO sign a statement for Z.
newspaper reporter.
Chester said ne knew he did not jump
through the double window in the state,
room as =. T.. Beasley, one of the de-
tectives who was guarding him has
testified he did.
THE last rVmember." Chester tes-
titled, II was lyirg across the seat ana
tho wind WIS blowing across my face
from an open window and saw Jack
Farrell draw back with a black Jack
and heard him say: This will cinch 1t,
and then everything went black"
When he regained consciousness,
Chester said. he was walking on a race
track somewhere, He said he remember
cd nothing more until he was on hos
pital table in Kansas City, three months
later He said he remembered nothing
of his recapture, of two attempts ut
suicide in the Jail at Broken Bow, Neb-
or OF conversations which various wit.
nesses testify they had with him at
that time. Chester told of various tor
lures to which he says he was subject
ed In the hospital. lie said he heard one
doctor say;
Its a cinch hen come to life when
I lab this into him." and that the doc
tor then thrust needle into his spine
b and he felt Il hit the bone and then
: became unconscious again. Several
: doctors turned flashlights in his eyes
4. he said. and one stuck pins in him ana
! asked him why he did not come to life,
: Another knocked two OF his teeth out
! the witness testified and another Jump
ed up and down on his stomach and
= kicked him. Spinal fluid was withdrawn
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