The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-05
STANLEYS TRIAL
WILL Be RUSHED
Quick Justice Is Predicted
for Alleged Leader
of Banks Bandits
.fREELING BACK AGAIN
Attorney General Says State
Plans to Rely on the Testi-
mony Already Rendered

Frank Stanley, second OF the trio
charged with robbing the Guaranty
state bank OF sperry on December
os 10 face trial, and the alleged
leader OF a gang of bank robbers
which has terrorized all Oklahoma
for the last three years, went to trial
Yesterday morning in district court
before Judge Redmond S. Cole.
s,anleys trial comes close on tho
heels Of that OF Eddie Shouquette
who was convicted last Friday Of
being one OF the Sperry robbers
His sentence Will be pronounced
Yriday by Judge Cole.
sAttorney General y. p. Freezing
Aeads the prosecution In the trial
of stanley as he did that In the case
of Shouquette. Assisting Freezing
are county Attorney w +. Scavcr.
Assistant County Attorney Colds
berry and o. A. Cargill, special
counsel for the Oklahoma Bankers
association. Stanley is represented
bv Attorney Ed Grassland.
Trial VIII Not Bo Long.
Indications at $50 O'Clock yester-
day afternoon when court adjourned
until Q o'clock Tuesday morning,
were that the trial of Stanley would
occupy less time than did that Of
ghouuuette. A jury, acceptable TO
both sides. had been sworn in
shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, and by adjournment time
the state had heard seven of its wit
nesses.
4 The jury as finally selected Is as
follows: J. l.. Morgan. Broken Ar
row farmer: l.. ID. Lewkowitz Tulsa
realtor: r. II. Downing, Tulsa real
tor: W. A. Coleman, Tulsa mer-
chant: l.. Q. Godsly. Collinsville fuel
dealer; Charles Wilkerson, Red
Fork oil worker: Y. C. Hill, Glen
Pool farmer; J. NJ. Bocox, Bixby
dealer; Il. d. Nelson, Tulsa. rail-
way employee; Charles Mccarthy,
Collinsville grocer; ]. w. Marshall,
Tulsa, merchant.
No New Testimony 10 Be Used.
The state will Introduce no new
testimony during the trial, accord
ing TO Freezing The same witnesses
who testified at Shouquette's trlal
viii testify at Stanley's hearing and
their testimony will be the same.
the attorney general said yester-
day The seven witnesses who tos-
titled Yesterday afternoon are: +. +.
F. Tolleson, assistant cashier of the
bank. Miss Ruth Darrow, clerk
employed in the bank, Joe Harsh
harger of Sperry. Robert Martin of
Sperry, former county commits
sioner; John A. Gustafson. chief of
police and /. Il. O'Dell, police de-
tective.
None of the witnesses altered
that given during Shouquettes trial
j. NJ. Stanley, detective employed
By the bankers association. and who
Joined Stanley's gang. operated with
It and thus obtained evidence which
led TO the arrest of its members, will
be the first witness to take the
stand for the state Tuesday.
Saunders, during Shouquette's trial,
was the states star witness and he
will fill a similar role today. II
was his testimony that largely led
to Shouquett's conviction. The tes-
tmony of Saunders will be no diff
ferent than that given at the other
trial, according to rreeling. The
attorney general did not know who
would follow Saunders on the stand,
but he said that the state would rest
before the noon adjournment.
In his opening statement yester-
day Freeing outlined practically the
same facts that he presented to the
Shouquette jury. The points he ex-
poets to prove are identically the
same, Ed Grassland, attorney for