The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-14
WILSON FOLKS
TELL Of LAW
ENFORCEMENT
Defense is Having Better
Sailing Today; Witnesses
Tell of Raids in Several
Towns.

Attorneys for the defense are hav
ing better luck on the second day|
of their offensive against state forces
in the custer trial OF Buck Garrett
suspended sheriff.
Witnesses called this morning wer(
nearly all from Wilson and men who
have had occasion to go into billiard
and Rexroat frequently. Without ex
ception they testified that it is th%
general reputation in those places tina
the law has been enforced during th4
past year and that joints were no
run "openly and VIGOROUSLY"
While Assistant Attorney Genera
Elmer +. Fulton and Russell Brow
are still Sitting on the throttle" AM
watching for every phrase on whic
to offer an objection, they are NJ.
so loud and quick to make protest I'd
day. "a
Knew Of Three Raids.
S. c. Rails, driller, living near Rex
roat, told Of three raids which werI
conducted in Rexroat during 1921
Bill Ward and Bud Ballew made tw
OF the raids, he said, but did not n
member who conducted the third.
He said that the general reputation
and opinion in that section was thaI
the laws Were enforced
On cross-eXamination the state trieI
to bring out that the witness was nc
/ Nphathar thara ;le a
on the occasions stated The witnes
once showed nervousness, but stuc
fast to his testimony.
Justice Kept Busy.
f.. w. Davis of Wilson, who col
ducts a mercantile business next dod
to the justice of the peace office, So [
he knew of the general rcputatid
! regarding. law enforcement in WiIso(
Rexroad and flealdton and that In d
of these places the laws were e
| forced.
Ballew and Ward brought In priU
oners "almost every morning" to
| tried before the justice of the peac
/ he testified. The witness did nd
know where the prisoners We're al
rested. on cross-examination he 50
that at times there were as many
ten brought in at time, being bot
men and women.
Knew of Two Raids.
The witness told Of two raids mad
in Wilson. one at the Mckenzie bull
ing and a second on the annex Of Il
Mobley hotel. last year.
Following the raid on the McKenzI
building poker tables and other fri
nishings were burned in the street,
said. The building was closed all
locked and had never been 'reopen}
at the time the building burned sc
eral months ago.
! Bill Ward and Dell Wilson, ci
marshal, conducted the raid on the a
mex to the Mobley, and an injunctid
was brought against the place,
said.
l.. +. Kimbrell member of the w
son school board. said that the generI
reputation in Wilson was that u
laws We're enforced. He told OF q
raid on the Mckenzie building, &C
roborating the testimony OF Davis
Writ Was Clean Town II
That there was not n Joint Of ai
description open IN the town OF Wi
during all Of last year. was the stat
mcnt of W. III. Dawson, supcrintc
dent OF the Gilmcr oil Company, "
lives near that town. He further tes
fled that Hcaldton was clean pla
and that the joints there We're not r,
"openly and notoriously."
on question he said that the q
joints in Healdton We're closed VIII
the officers were In town. None
the places there ran continuously.
said, there being periods when all
the joints were out OF business.