The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1913 Page: 2 of 10
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she stayed at the Howard home one
night during the absence of Mr. How-
ard, who had gone to Burkburnett,
Tex., and that during the evening
Mrs. Howard left the room "to make
Mr. Leseny's bed," as she termed it.
She further stated that Leseny left
the room shortly afterwards. Where
Leseny went she did not know but she
did say it took Mrs. Howard twenty-
five minutes to make the bed.
Mrs. Ross, the widow who gave the
most damaging testimony of the en-
tire case, in her examination, stated
that Mrs. Howard told her one day
while out riding that she didn't love
her husband as much as she used ti"
and that she would rather have Les-
eny for a husband. She also stated
that "they had been the same as one,
anyway." Mrs. Ross said she judge!
from the conversation that Leseny
Howard, were guilty of il-
licit love and unlawful relationship.
W B. Howard, a brother of the de-
By Staff Correspondent. """ed' decla[e<l Use?' ^ elf ,"nt
WALTER, Okia, Ma, 12.-(.Spe-;for I)r' StePhens that neither
rial.)—Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Leseny 0f I ''eseny nur M™- Leseny, then Mrs.
Temple, former landlord and former i H,,w«rd' would M other profession-
wife of Joseph H. Howard, Cache1"1 or nonprofessional help.
DENY BOND
FOR THREE
IN COTTON
BUT COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE
WILL SEEK RELEASE ON
HABEAS CORPUS.
ILLICIT LOVE HINTED
Neighbor Witnesses Say Wife of De-1
ceased Told of Affection For 'and ^',s
Present Husband.
township farmer, and l)r. J, M. Steph-
I J. W. Weldon, last witness, corro-
. . . . 1 Unrated the latter part of Howard's
ens, the Hastings physician who pre-; y
scribed treatment for Howard in his I statement.
last illne.w, must stand trial in thej
district court of Cotton county on j Jfarbed wire cuts, ragged wounds,
charge of poisoning Mrs. Leaeny'a| c0||ar an(] harness galls heal up
former husband. | quickly when BALLARD'S SNOW
Within two minutes after County LINIMENT is applied. It is both
Attorney Harry F. Tripp concluded j healing and antiseptic. Price 25c, 50c
his argument, at 2:30 o'clock this f-|anj $1,00 per bottle. Sold by Jones
Greets Comrade
After 49 Years
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ Comrades in company D, sec- ♦
♦ ond Arkansas mounted riflemen ♦
♦ of the Confederate army, Sam ♦
♦ Houston Hargis of Ada and ♦
♦ William C. Crane of Mount ♦
♦ Scott, this county, greeted each ♦
♦ other Sunday for the first time ♦
in forty nine years. ♦
Hargis, who is state collector
for the Spaulding buggy com- ♦
pany with headquarters recently ♦
established here, was told of ♦
Crane's whereabouts by Col. R. ♦
A. Sneed, who formerly resided ♦
♦ at Mount Scott, and made the ♦
♦ trip to the mountains Sunday to ♦
♦ see him. ♦
♦ The two men had served to- ♦
♦ gether with Bragg, Johnson and ♦
♦ Hood and were together at ♦
♦ Chick.<mauga, the scene of the ♦
♦ coming reunion of the Blue and
♦ the Gray, separating in 1864.
♦ Hargis surrendered at Greens
♦ boro, N. C., May 12, 1966.
♦ «♦♦♦♦♦♦
FMTflRS Tft JAKE RAMON AND TEMPLE WIDOW
Ti' „ « i „ TURN COURT INTO A VAUDEVILLE
ARDMORE
NEXT YEAR
U-mooii, County Judge Austin Aiken
bound all three defendants over to
the district court, without bail, and
remanded them lo the custody of the
sheriff.
Although it has not yet been de-
finitely decided, Sheriff Tom Mu'lin
indicated early this afternoon that ho
would take all three defendants to
Lawton and place them in the Coman-
che county jail. They will go by ao-
tomnbile, expecting to arrive early
this evening.
Try For Bond Here.
Attorney Fred R. Ellis of counsci
for the defence announced immediate-
ly after the court's decision that an
tempt would be made tomorrow to
secure bail through habeas corpus
proceedings. The application will bo
presented to District Judge J. T.
Johnson, in Lawton.
It was but the natural legal pro-
cedure that the county court should
deny hail in holding defendants on
murder charge, only the district
court in cases of thut degree being
authorized to grant bail. '
t No separate trial was accorded to
Dr. Stephens, it being agreed that
his fate should rest upon the evidence
given in the trial of the two prin-
cipals.
Counsel for the defense are confi-
dent that buil can be secured for all
three defendants. - - Vi l
Short Session Today. *
There was but a brief period
Bros.
(Adv.)
WON FIELD MEET,
INDIAN SCHOOLS
YOUNG MINISTER
IN FIRST SERMON
By Staff Correspondent. i "Just a minute—wasn't you, a
WALTER, Okla., May 12.— tSpe-'comely widow of fifty summers, just
cial.)—Although a murder trial was a little bit sweet on this widower,
in progress in which a man and a Leseny? In other words, didn't you
woman, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Leseny,I have your 'cap set for him' for nearly
indriectly faced death penalty or life a year before he married Mrs. How-
imprisonment on charge of poisoning ard?"
Joseph H. Howard, Jake L. Hamon of "That is not true, and everybody
Lawton and Mrs. Sarah Ross, Tem- knows it," shouted the witness, ha'f
pie widow, Saturday night turned the rising in her chair and waving her
Cottsn county court into a vaudeville arms threateningly. "I wouldn't
scenv which completely upset the dig marry that man."
nity of the court and turned a grave-; "Of course you wouldn't," consol-
faced audience into a tumultuous ingly returned the attorney, "and >f
j scream of laughter. course we all know it. We all under
That Amount Reached in Contracts! Mrs. Ross had just intimated that stand that it's now too late for you
For Medicine Park During [illicit relations had existed between to marry him—he's got another wife.
'LAWTON, SECOND IN THE RACE
FOR CONVENTION, LOST
BY 12 VOTES
$15,000 FOR ED. HOME
State Meeting.
The Comanche Indian school won
the track and Held meet anil also
grabbed off high basket ball honors in
the three days' contest with , the four
principal southwest Oklahoma Indian
schools held Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of last week at Anadarko,
the boys taking the field meet and
the basket ball games being between
girl's teams. Baseball honors and the
declamation contest went to the Kio-
wa Indians from the R-. iy Mountain
school at Gotebo.
That is the report of the delegation
from the Fort Sill school who return-
ed Sunday from Anadarko. A score or
more of contestants, pupils and fac-
ulty members attended.
In the basket ball series.the Coman
che girls first defeated Rainy moun-
tain then annexed the "scalps" of the
Riverside girls who had previously-
beaten the Anadarko hoarding school.
In the track meet, the score stood:
Fort Sill 25 1-2, Riverside 19 1-2,]
Rainy Mountain 14 1-2, and the Ana-
ut'darko Boarding school 1-2.
OKLAHOMA CITY , May 12. —
(Special.)—Newspaper men from all
part of southwest Oklahoma passed
through Oklahoma City this after-
noon on the return trip from the
state press association at Bartlesville
which ended at Tulsa Sunday night
with a great banquet, given by the
Tulsa press ciub. After the business
sessions of the convention at Bartles-
ville, practically the whole convention
made the trip to Pawhuska where
they were entertained with an Osage
_ I Indian dance, then to Tulsa where
LEIN1NGER GREETED BY LARGEL ^ M
A1 DIKM K I.AS I NIGH1, ^ Ardmore won over Lawton by t*-
HhElt MY LAMBS. narrow margin of twelve votes in the
contest for the 1014 convention and,
IUe Rev. William 11 l.eininger, u j after the final* ballot, Lawton dele-
member of the senior .-lass of ihe j,ates withdrew thai city's name and
high school who was licensed by the I asjiucj t|K, convention to make the
I Presbytery of El Reno April !*, and e|10jcc 0f Ardmore unanimous. The
I who is to deliver the baccalaureate(finjt vote „tood; Ardmore 32, Lawton
I sermon to the graduating class of the..^ Gnthrie 27, Woodward 21, Tulsa
Lawton high school. May 10, deliver-j(>n the seconc| ballot, all but three
ed his first sermon in a place ol wor"|wt,re jliminatcd and the vote stood:
ship Sunday night in the Presbyterian | Ardmore 45, I-awton Guthrie !!3.
church. He was greeted by one of thej Ardmore k.d by twelve votes on th«.
targes assemblages of people ev®* i tinul ballot and the selection was
gathered in a Lawton church. jmodc unanimous.
He chose for his subject "Feed My) Kates New President.
Lambs, taken from John the twenty-j ^ ^ Kates of Claremore automati-
first chapter, verse 15. The discourse | ciL]jy ajVanced from vice president to
was remarkably well delivered for a Resident for the coming year, and
young man of his age and indicate? ,;corKC jrostcr 0f Wagoner, J. O.
for him a hr'.ght future in the pastor-
al field.
Dizziness, vertigo, (blind staggers)
sallyw complexion, flatulence ai"e
symptoms of a torpid liver. No one
an feel well while tre liver is in-
active HERBINE is a powerful liver
stimulant. A dose or two will cause
all bilious symptoms to disappear.
Try it. Price 50c. Sold by Jones
Bros. (Adv.)
.
Lame back Is usually caused by
rheumatism of the muscles of the
back, for which you will find nothing
better than Chamberlain's Liniment.
For sale by all dealers.
evidence-taking today, the greater
part of the testimony having been
taken in the session which lasted un-
til near midnight Saturday.
Four or five witnesses were intro-
duced by the state, practically all of
them telling of incidents which ten-
ded to corroborate earlier evidence
hinting at illicit relations between
Mr. and Mrs. Leseny while Mrs. Les-
eny was still Mrs. Howard.
No Defense Testimony.
The testimony closed at 11 o'clock
the defense being content to rest its
case on the testimony of state's wit-
nesses and leave the real fight for the
district court trial, if the defendants
were to be held.
Arguments for the defense were
made by Attorneys Ellis and McMur-l
ray. Only Mr. Tripp argued for the|
state, lie opened with a brief pre-1
sentation of the case and closed with j
a story appeal to the court lasting an |
hour and fifteen minutes. [
Dr. C. W. Alexander, county su-
perintendent of health of Cotton
county, was witness Saturday
night. He testified that the health
certificate filed by Dr Stephens ol j 'j'be "invincible champions" from
Hastings a.- to the cause of the death j chattanooga were added to the short
of Howard gave "pneumonia conipli-j enJ (lf the i.awton independents'
When the baby tases ioo much food
the stomach turns; the result is indi-
gestion, sourness and vomiting. Fre-
quently the bowels are involved and
there is colic pains and diarrhoea. Mc-
GEE'S BABY ELIXIR is a gran
corrective remedy for the stomach
and bowel disorders of babies. It is
pure, wholesome and pleasant to take.
Price -~>c and 50c per bottle. Sold by
FINE HERD OF JERSEY CATTLE
FOR SALE
Will sell my entire herd of Jersey
ci'tie, registered stock, consisting of
If! head of young cows, now fresh or
will be prior to May 1st, 5 h«.iH of
yearling heifers, 2 young males. Pre-
fer to make a sale as a whole but
will sell otherwise. Will sell worth
the money and to those who can
make me a good note, will give some
time. Five miles west of Lawton.
JOSEPH KUBITSCHEK.
4-26 d It w4t (Adv.)
KEEP OUT THE FLIES.
PENDIES WON
FROM CHAMPS
SCORE W AS 5 TO I IN SUNDAY'S
GAME; BUT VISITORS PLAY-
ED BETTER BALL.
Call and let us tell yon about screen
ooors, cypress and red wood screen
stock and mouldings for screen
frames. They never rot. Just received
a car of large oak posts, prices right
j LYONS & MATTHEWS CO.,
O. G. FELT, Mgr.
I Phone 108. Cor. 3rd and F.
w 3-13. (Adv)
rated with uremic poisoning" as th<
death cause.
The appearance of Mrs . Louisa
Howard, 70-year-old mother of the
deceased, dressed in black and wear-
ing a black sun bonnet lold. amid sobs
that shook lier aged frame, of her
watchfulness during the enitre sick-
ness of her son and how he
steadily worse after the prescribing
of medicine which she testified was
taken from Dr. Stephen's medicine
case. Her testimony lent a deep touch
of pathos to the hearing and before
she was called from the stand tears
were flowing from the eyes of many
of the spectators. The aged mother
testitied that after the medicine wa-
given, her son complained of being
u-fire internally. He later spat blood
and vomited, incessantly begging for
water. Mrs. Howard, also stated that
Mrs. Leseny refused assistance from
neighbors in caring for her dying
husband.
Intimate Illicit Love.
Ali.sa Georgia Moore testified that
score board Sunday afternoon when
the teams from the first nn^ second
cities in Comanche met at Koehler
park in the fourth big game of the
amateur seisali. The score was 5 to
1
At th''. however, -.uny spiclatora
declared that the "Murphys" gave out
Krew] the best exhibition of the great na-
tional game and should have won, a
costly error giving the locals a bulge
on markers that could not be over-
come.
Kennard, for Lawton, was batted
out of the liox in the second inning
and was replaced by Ohurchi'l
CARDUI WORKED
LIKE A CHARM
After Operation Failed to Help,
Cardui Worked Like a Charm.
Jonesville, S. C.—"1 suffered wltk
womanly trouble," writes Mrs. J. 8.
Kendrick, In a letter from this place,
"and at times, I could not bear to stand
on my leet. The doctor said I would
never be any better, and that I would
have to have an operation, or I would
have a cancer.
I went to the hospital, and they oper-
ated on me, but I got no better. They
■aid medicines would do ma no good,
and 1 thought I would have to die.
At last I tried Cardui, and began te
Improve, bo I continued using It. Now,
I am well, and can do my own work.
I don't teel any pains.
Cardui worked like a charm."
Cumpbell of Waukomis and Mrs.
Frank B. Lucas of Oklahoma City
were e'eeted vice presidents in num-
erical rotation.
R. E. Stafford was unanimously
elected members of the national ex-
ecutive committee.
Horace Shepard of Altus, A. K.
Ross of Claremore, Sidney Suggs of
Ardmore, Tom Hensley of El Reno,
George Snet1 ti of Madill, John Ander-
son1 of Snyder and Lee Nichols of
Bristow were elected delegates to the
National Press association to be held
June 17, next, in Colorado Springs.
Plans are being formulated to make
the trip in automobiles with the aid
of the Colorado Good Roads associa
tion.
Mrs. Lucy Eastman, Mrs. C. A.
Brown and Sidney Suggs were named
as a committee of three to form a
Woman's Auxiliary Press associa-
tion.
$15,000 For Press Home.
During the Bartlesville convention,
the subscription list for the editorial
home to be erected at Medicine Park
was raised to $15,000.
Commend Senator Gore.
Resolutions were adopted com-
mending Senator T. P. Gore "for his
firm stand against such recommenda-
tions as his conscience would not ap
prove."
A copy of the resolutions were or-
dered forwarded to President W ilson
and the United States senate.
ANADARKO CAPTURES
GAME FROM FT. SILL
ANADARKO, Ok., May 12.—(Spe-
Leseny and Mrs. Leseny while Mrc. But now, really and truly, badr't you
Leseny was yet Mrs. Howard and be- considered, before Mr.' Leseny's re-
fore her former husband was dead, cent marriage, how nice it would lie if
The witness had given what the state you could win him for a husband?"
felt was damaging testimony and had j It was too much—
already been drawn through a gruel-j "I wouldn't marry him! I wouldn't
ling cross examination by Fred R. El- marry him, I say! I wouldn't hace
lis, counsel for the defense, when Mr.; married him if he had asked me! "
Hamon, Ellis' law partner and co- hysterically shouted the witness,
counsel, asked to take charge of the completely losing control of her tem
witness. per.
"You have just said that you and The laughter in the court room at
Mrs. Leseny have always been very j this point in the hearing was .-o
close friends," he began. "How does it tumultuous that the county judi
happen that, being a friend of Mrs j could scarcely be heard as he called
Leseny, you can give testimony thUR for order. The state's attorney, grov.
damaging to her reputation?" j ing tired of such proceedings, arose
"I'm simply stating what is the to his feet and asked of the court to
truth," snapped the witness, already dismiss the witness and if such que-
affronted by the doubt insinuated by ; tioning was pursued by the defend-
counsel. J al,t's counsel, to impose a fine. The
"'Now isn't it a fact. Mrs. Ross, that . ,
. . ..... , .. . . ,, fine was not imposed, although tm
you're just a little bit jealous ot a
successful rival? Wasn't- j witness was permitted to leave the
"I never—" ___ stand.
FRISCO DEMONSTRATOR SAYS
RAINFALL SHOULD BE RETAINED
That the rccent undertaking of the
Frisco linen to improve crop condi-
tions in Oklahoma will bring about a
revolution in farming methods is the
opinion of E. G. Barnard, of Oklaho-
ma City, fann demonstrator for the
department of (jevelopnient of the
railroad, who last week visited Law-
ton in the interest of his work.
Incidental to his visit to the Frisco
farm here Mr. Barnr.rd's* attention
was attracted to several farms dur-
different sections and to discourage
the raising of those which are uncer-
tain; and to show the farmer how
much can be accomplished by proper
eultivaiton To illustrate, is corn a
sure crop in Oklahoma? Most farm-
ers know that it is not. Then why
risk time and money on a crop thai
fails as often as it makes? Kafir coin
is a splendid crop for this section, and
the railroads urges its planting ami
cultivation."
"Another object of the demonstrn
ing the drive where no attempt had ■ tion work is the finding of the best
been made to conserve the moisture j market for the farmer's products,
from recent rains. "A thick, hard j and to put him in touch with this
crust had formed on top of the soil,"! market. This is one of the most im
said the Frisco man, "thereby wast-
ing work with a barrow to prevent
this and loosen the soil would have
ing much of the rainfall; when a lit-
greatly lessened the need of another
rain. This matter of moisture con-
servation is one of the things we ex-
pect to tei'.ch by demonstration, as
it must be admitted that this coun-
try can ill afford to waste any of its
rainfall."
Mr. Barnard says "the general pur-
poses of the Frisco demonstration
work, ana in this it has the co-opera-
tion of the federal agents, is to en-
courage the use of pure-bred seed, to
portant steps undertaken by the road,
and will result in untold benefit, not
only to the farmers, but the merch-
ants in the small towns as well. When
we remember that thousands of bush-
els of fruit rotted on the ground all
over Oklahoma last year, which
would have brought high prices if a
proper market could have been found
for it, the value of this work cannot
be overestimated."
Mr. Barnard says the demonstra
tors will make photographs of the
crops on the Frisco farms every
thirty days, and these will be publish-
ed along with pictures of crops on
determine the crops
best suited to [other fars, showing the comparison.
THE CAUSE OF RHEUMATISM.
Stomach trouble, lazy liver and de-
ranged kidneys are the cause of rheu-
matism. Get your stomach, liver, kid-
neys and bowels in healthy condition
by taking Electric Bitters, and you
will not be troubled with the pains of
rheumatism. Charles B. Allen , a
school principal, of Sylvania, Ga., who
suffered indescribable troture from
rheumatism, liver and stomach
trouble and diseased kidneys, writes.
"All remedies failed until 1 used
Electric Bitters, but four bottles of
this wonderful remedy cured me
In the whole field of medicine there
is not a healing remedy that will re-
pair damage to the flesh more quick-
ly than BALLARD'S SNOW LINI-
MENT. In cuts, wounds, sprains
burns, scalds and rheumatism, its
healing and" penetrating power is ex-
traordinary. Price 26c, 60c and $1.00
per bottle. Sold l y Jones Bros. (Ad.)
rheumatic
liver and
rs will
SOc and $1.00.
one. The feature of the game was the j Recommended by Jones Bros. (Adv.)
superb pitching of Goode, a membprj
of the local pitching staff. Because of
the inability to pitch as good as
Goode, and being backed by such poor
fielding the opposing pitcher failed
to hcip his teammates overcome the
led that Anadarko maintained
throughout the game. Anadarko's new
baseball Club, managed by the exper-
ienced promoter, Frank Cousins, has
progressed rapidly sice the beginning
of this year's season.
cial.)—The Anadarko baseball clul'i completely." Mijybe your
defeated the Fort Sill battery C team] Twins come from stomach, liv<
here Sunday, scoring nineteen runs|ikdney troubles. Kleetric T.itter
while Fort Sill managed to make only tfve you prompt relief.
r
Three Measures
to Be Initiated
FOR SALE.
Thoroughbred Black and White Or-
phington cockerels. We have a few
There must be merit in this purely birds we are holding at $3.00. ab
vea*tabl , tonic remedy, lor women—
Cardui—for it has been la successful
dm for more than 50 year*, for th«
treatment of womanly weakness t>4
ttWi
Please try It, far y««r troubles
K. B.-Wriit It: UJIw- A^lwrr tlin. CUIU-
Man IMIohU.. owtirnw J«*.. tm Sucitl
u. xiaw •*
fcr *aa" Ml la mrtrrm. m i
(Advertisement.)
though $2.00 will buy you a bird that
is a beauty.
We also have eggs for setting.
From our breeding pen $1.50. Our
utility pen 65 cents per fiften. Give
us your order and wc will see that
you are well pleased. Joe Boyd. 814
Third Street, Lawton, Okla.
3-6 w tf (Adv.)
tiative petition No. 80.
Representatives Woodward, Matth
ews and associates who are new
drafting an initiative petition tJ
abolish nine state educational insti-
tutions have announced that they will
file their petition today. This will
make the second recourse to the ini-
tiative and referendum, as a result of
the refusal of the legislature to pas-
an act abolishing any educational in-
stitutions, or to refer the question to
th« people.
The third question submitted prob-
ably will be Senator Campbell Rus-
sell's proposed amendment to the
constitution to eliminate the silent
vote which so far has made difficult
of success most of the questions sub-
mitted to the people under the initin
tive and referendum since statehood.
WOODWARD AND ASSOCIATES
TO SEPK VOTE ON SECONDARY,
NORMAL AND PREP SCHOOLS.
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 12.—The
first initiated bill resulting directly
from the failure or refusal of the leg-
islature to act upon a given subject
was filed with Secretary of State Ben
F. Harrison late Saturday afternoon.
The measure proposes a complete an-
ti-usury law, and was filed by Repre-
sentative Glasco of McCain county,
author of several noted anti-usury
and "loan shark" bills which so far
have failed of passage in the legis-
lature.
The measure took the following
numbers: State question "No. 48; ini-
Sallow complexion is due to a tor
pid liver. HERBINE purifies and
strengthens the liver and bowels and
restores the rosy bloom of health to
the cheek. I'rice .">0c. Sold by Jones
Bros. (Adv.)
"Scoop" Mangan, reporter for the
Constitution, "covered" the Leseny
murder 'rial at Walter for this paper
He went to the Cotton county capital
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams who
have been here for the paBt week
visiting with friends and relative.-
left over the north bound Rock Island
this morning for Fletcher where the.\
will visit with friends for a few days
before returning to their home in Ok-
lahoma City.
Now is the time to get rid of your
rheumatism. You can do it by apply-
ing Chamberlain's Liniment ond mas-
saging the parts freely at each appl'
cation. For sale by all dealers.
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