The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-14

made by Wilkorson within an hour
after tine phootluE.
In bIG prosg.pxlmIuullO Hon OF VIII
kouun thlH Wuruiug, Springer made
repeated efforts To- make tho state
witness contradict his testimony.
Tho attorney read from th" tram
script Of the preliminary trial nud In
hcntod passion demanded an cNpla-
nation OF certain alleged variations
In testimony giycn 4t that trial aud
testimony Riycn at the present triai
by Wllkcrsuu.
hut the defense counsel received
little reward for his work. Ito sue
cocdcd I'm getting only ono contradic-
tlon and that was IN regard 10 tho
relative position OF the cars ana
Fears and Cook during the shooting.
Springer went into the minutcst
details in regard 10 tho positions ot
the cars and men and repeatedly
made efforts 10 get Nilkersou
tangled. but failed.
Hiram stephens Tclls His Story.
Hiram stephens. veteran peace
officer, who has been la this state 40
years. was the next state witness.
stephens testified that the night OF
December rs hc was at the police
static, when the call came In that
Wilkcrson and Aurandt were shot.
In n car with Barney Meyer ana j.
G.. West the witness said he followed
an ambulance to the house OF q. ~.
Kcnnard, five miles out on Federal
drive. lie said that as they arrived
at tho house tho ambulance left
with Aurandt
Wilkorson, according to stephens
was in tho house. sitting In chair
81 asked Ike who shot him,
stephens said. "He told me that II
was Tom Cook and Alvis Fears and
another man whom no was unable
/ TO see plainly. lie told me other do
tails OF the shooting, how he ant
| Aurandt had been out rabbit hunt
Ing passing the car near the Aver!
| farm house and n car later passini
! them and driving across the roaC
| ahead Of their auto. Ike told ms
that Cook had a bloody scratch on
one side OF his face"
Immediately after getting the de-
tails OF the affair from Ike, j phoned
police headquarters and told them
Just what he had told mo"
"Did you give the station n de-
scription OF Cook and Fears2'
Goldesberry asked.
mo, sir; l don't believe I did. M
most everyone on the force knew
| Cook"
Noticed Scratch ON Cooks Face.
Later, tho witness said, he an9
several other officers went TO Cooks
/ house near tho city limits on Nortl
| Peoria. There they found Sheriff
| Mccullough and one or two othel
| deputies, About o'clock the morn
! l,.. f,It1Wffnug tho ahnnfInU ( iMnnnu
/ morning) stephens testified that h,
saw tho three defendants at the 20
| lice station. At that time, he tol'
the jury. he noticed tho blood,
scratch on Cooks check.
In his cross examination Syringe
ATTEMPTED TO gain tho admission
from stephens that shelton had bee
severely sbeaten In third degree az
tempt "a gain from him a Confes
sion. Judge cole sustained tn
states objection to tho question,
The only interruption In the chni
OF evidence which tho state is forg
ing about the trio OF alleged mur
derers came during the testimony &
I'd Mcbride, who lives near O. 1
kcuuard. Mcbride was at the Ken
uord house the night of the shoot
Ing, he testified. lte aided In carry
ing Aurandt and Wilkersou into IN
house and talked go Wilkerson I
! regard TO the identity OF the nssai
|, untG
HIT ne said that Wukerson, I
J telling him about the shooting, al
! not name Fears The officer di
name Cook and give practical
I tho same description of him as IN
other witnesses testified. Howeve
, Mcbride says that lac only hear
part OF the conversation betweo
Wilkcrson and stephens and thJ
the wounded man might have mer
toned Fears name. N he did, th
witness testified, II was In the pal
Of the conversation that he did n,
hear.
He Heard shooting.
81 heard the shooting that night
Mcbride said, II was about o'cloc
and seemed 10 be about quartz
Of a mile east. There We're five &
six shots. / think. They were fire
rapidly and there might have bee
more than that. shortly after IA
last shot n car came rapidly n
the hill ana before stopping wa
was several feet past the lnterseC
tiun OF the roads, The car hackc
up, turned and drove rapidly nortl
Between the time the car stop
ped and backed up voice fror
the inside said, O. D, hac
| up. We want 10 go north,' Sevora
| minutes later another car same a.
the hin and stopped i'm front OF IN
kcnnard home. heard cries 10
help and walked out on tho pore
as lNennard came over TO get mo.
"On Kenuards front porch W
found man tAurandD lying o
, hts face. asked him it he wa
, shot and he said "yCs," but get th
|. man IN the car. | went out to In
n Ssr and drove Il around TO the sid
o OF the house. Then we carried IA
.e Two mon inside.
of ike's Gun Failed Him.
~ asked Ike who shot him. II
y, so,u me thar Tom Cook and a sho
22l ieuow Were tho men and that Coo
te mad bloody scratch ON one cheo
eh lle SAID that they had hoId Al
'" up "h''e he and Aurendt were o o