The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-20
the 40 hours or more Immediately fol
lowing the death of Dixon.
Rumors Of Eternal Triangle"

the 40 hours or more Immediately fol-
lowing the death of Dixon.
Rumors of Eternal Triangle
Rumors of the eternal triangle have
been rife ever since the body OF Dix
on, with his head crushed like an egg
shell, with his brains scattered and
smearing his clothing and shirtfront.
was brought to Ardmore and turned
over to the authorities. However, the
only definite statement that anything
like this existed is that found in the
alleged confession of the defendant.
given to the county officers, to the
effect that the deceased had accused
his companion of having held i'm
proper relations with the wife.
To the credit of the prisoner. how
ever, it may be said that no complete
ly exonerated the woman in his
alleged confession. Whether or not
the investigation OF the laws officers
will reveal completely, active or pass
i've. upon her part cannot. at this
time, be foretold
The wife OF the dead man is being
detained, pending the result of fur
ther investigation. She is held In the
woman's department of the county
Jail, strictly incommunendo, allowed to
talk to no one except her attorneys.
A GruesOme Sight
The face OF the dead man, as he
lays in the undertaking parlors, pre-
sents a gruesome sight, the marks
Of violence showing despite all the
efforts which have been exerted by
the most skilled embalmers. The flesh,
discolored, evidences that the violence
of the blows which resulted in death,
were SO extreme that immediate
capillary congestion ensued, while the
forehead had been crushed in, the
line of demarkation showing where the
parafine wax, skillfully moulded by
the undertaken, supplants the shattered
bone and joins to the solid parts Of
the skull, those parts which were not
demolished when the death-blow was
struck, either when the car went over
the embankment, as the defendant
claims in his statement, or when the
jack. found by sherff's officers, blood
spattered and smeared with teltale
hairs clinging to its surface, descend
ed with titanic force, crushing and
rending the bone, mascerating the
flesh and laying bare the throbbing
brain.
Mrs. Dixon Held
Mrs. Charles Dixon, wife of the. mur-
dered man, Is held in the county jail
She was arrested the day following
the killing and was held for investi-
CATION as a possible accomplice in the
affair. after several persons had stated
that they had seen two men and a
woman in the car shortly before the
reported murder.
However Mrs. Doxon stated time and
time again during a fuur-hour grill
by the assistant county attorney Fri
day morning, that she was not in the
car, but was at her home during the
night on which her husband was
slain.
The assistant county attorney states
that the woman will be held until the
early part of the week, unless new
facts present themselves regarding the
case, may then be released from GUS
tody. She is confined in solitary
cell and no one is permitted to see
her.
Wife Views Body
At her own request Mrs. Dixon was
taken from the county Jail to the
funeral parlors of Harvey Brothers
Saturday afternoon at about 2:3o
o'clock where she viewed the body OF
her dead husband She was accom-
panied by her sister and Deputy Sher-
iff Horace Kendall.
As she entered the parlors Mrs
Dixon burst into tears.
There at the same time was the
mother of the slain man, Mrs. S. NJ.
Bird, of Greenville, Ark. Mrs. Bird
arrived in Ardmore late Friday night
coming to this city Immediately after
she heard of the death of her son.
Together the wife, mother and sister,
in-law of the slain man, weeping, knelt
at the side of the coffin. Fifteen min
utes later, Mrs. Dixon and her sister
departed from the parlors and the
deputy sheriff accompanied the accused
woman TO her cell at the county Jail.
Mrs. Bird remained at the side OF
the body Of her son. She is deeply
grieved over her loss, and is in a
very weak condition. Although 70
years old, she Immediately started for
Ardmore when she heard the news
of her SON death. The son over whose
body she now grieves was the last of
five children of whom Mrs. Bird was
the mother. Deceased was 81 years
old.
Very few words We're spoken in the
funeral parlors. Visitors were not per-
mitted in the room in which the body
lay at the time the relatives were as
semblcd there.
Assistant County Attorney Hodges
states that there will be no post NOR.
TEN held, and that the preliminary
hearing on the case will not be held
until after further investigation.
In the meantime. both Ashcraft and
Mrs Dixon are held without bond.
Late developments in the investiga-
tion of the murder last Wednesday
night. when Newt Ashcraft is al
legged To have killed Charles Dixon,
Rock Island railway brakeman, in
dictate the correctness of the conten.
tion of the officers that the automo-
bile In which the two men were rid