The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-05-26
TELLS STORY Of
DEATH Of MEANS
Constable Brings Death Car 70
Chlckasha: Explains How Partial
Identification Of Suspects
Was Made.

The death ear In which Robert c.
Means. brother.in-law Of Mrs. Fred
Hamilton of this city was murdered
on May Is. was brought here today
by Mr.. Hamilton and Reuben Meeks,
constable of Mead, Okla, near which
town the killing occurred.
Mr.. Meeks, who was the second
man to the car after the body was
discovered. told the story OF the find
ing Of the car and the body of the
murder victim together with findings
of officers In their hunt for the
slayers.
"A farmer found the car about SO
hours after the killing" said Mr.
Meeks. "He phoned me and | was
at the scene in ten minutes. Means
body was lying about 80 feet from
the car Evidently the murderers
were making an effort to get to the
river to make way with the body.
The road was lonely and travelled
very little. The car had run onto
high center. There were evidences
that the men had tried to dig 1t off
and get away with the machine. Fail
ing to do this, evidently, they aban-
doned the car and removed Means
body to the brush.
investigations have proved that
the men stopped Means on the out
skirts of Dallas where they asked
for a ride. We found where two men
had alighted from an interurban and
had waited on a soap box for an
hour or MORE. then stopped car,
climbed in and rode away. We be-
lieve that further investigation proves
that these two were the men who
were later seen in Means car and
who, we believe killed him. They
rode more than 100 miles with him.
AT a toll bridge the party stopped
on the bridge and talked with the
toll man. Means passed around the
cigarettes.
1.-TWO men were caught. One of
them has been identified by the toll
man, by a school teacher and by
girl as one of the men seen in
Means car.
1--WE believe that Means was killed
at point between three and six
miles south of Durant. We have
established that he was alive six
miles south of Durant. The sheriff
in Durant has q number of pictures
of men wanted. Several parties have
picked out one of the pictures as
that of the second man in the case.
One of the men we have now was
not identified and doubtless will be
released"
The car, after having been washed,
still bore indications of a terrific
struggle. 1t was blood spattered over
top, windshield and sides, gruesome
sight even now. According to Mr..
Hamilton, a girl was found south Of
Duncan who called the attention of
her father to the bloody appearance
of man driving a touring car, that
there was another man in the rear
seat and the rate of speed at which
the car was going. 1t is said that
the girl picked out the picture Of the
wanted" man from the collection in
the Durant sheriff's office as the
driver of the car.
While in Durant, Mr.. Hamilton
called on Governor J. B. A. Robert
son, who happened to be there. The
governor offered $500 reward for the
capture of the men who killed Means,
Mr.. Hamilton stated that the peo-
pie of Durant were wrought up to
high pitch. He declared that he
feared a mob if the man held now
is positively identified as one of the
occupants of the death car.