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Pittsburg County Guardiaii
GUARANTEED LARGEST WEEKLY CIRCULATION IN PITTSBURG COUNTY ALL HOME PRINT
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A STANDARD COUNTY NEWSPAPER
Mcalester, oklahoma, Thursday, jan. 20,1921.
the newspaper that goes home
NO. 22
Buckner and Fry
Are Found
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.11 in REACHES VERDICT *
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After about two hours deliber- *
r ation, the jury returned a ver *
r diet of guilty, leaving the punish- *
ment up to the court. The min- *
t imum sentence is 5 years, the
maximum, 50 years. Sentence
Gotcher, asked that he begranted th
constitutional right of immunity, in Texas, and to other acts in the lives
return for turning state's evidence,; (if the defendants, as tending to prove
and this was granted by the court. J them above the commission of such a
The progress of the case through j crime as charged—"the robbery of the
the week was the magnet for hun- j Bosletta beer joint." he declared, "for
| dreds, who crowded the courtroom at
every sitting, and who had to be fre-
i quently admonished by the court
Beachboard, one of the proprietors,
came out and finally towed the car
back to town; that Fry remained out
of sight while the car was being right-
ed, and that after the service car re-
turned to town he and Buckner whist-
led for Fry and he came up. Said the
trunk had been taken out of the car
while he was telephoning for a ser-
vice car, and that it hail been carried
a short distance away and thrown into
the prison farm, near the culvert over
the drain; that the three of them tried
to get into it, first by stamping on
superintendent of an orphans home in | it. and later took a pocket knife and
cut a hole in the side; that Fry then
pulled the money out of it and gave
Guilty
money
some to him and some to Buckner to I
take care of; that they then left the J
trunk, took a street car at the peni- j
tentiary entrance back toward town,
getting off at Jackson and going east
* against any form of demonstration
IIU1 Milium, wu >r«ia, "chk nw - ■ . , ,
. will be passed by Judge Melton * whatever that might retard the case
• r. i i of mtorfurn u'lth ir*j nmnio* ritni iici
uch it truly was," he added.
At noon, Judge Jones had not con
eluded. In addition to his argument to the old artificial gas works in the
in the afternoon, Mr. Andrews was to j Fourth Ward, where, he declared, they j
follow for the defense and former; counted out the money; that they {
. lot,,,- r„m tiii-'n Rn'ckner -mil *• or interfere with its proper conduct. County Attorney Carl Monk would gave him $200.
^ Andrews & Anderson, of this city close for the state, after which the; He declared further that Buckner
* j assisted by Attorney Philas Jones, of j cas* would go to the jury. and Fry then told him to come to j
* | Wilburton, represented the defense. The star witness for the state was j town and get his car (which the gar- !
* ' Former County Attorney Monk ans' ! I - M. Harkey, whose voluntary state- age man, he said, had promised to fix \
it W. K. Gotcher, who had been counselor ment to the county attorney soon af-;that night) and meet them near the
! of record for Harkey, assisted Coun- ter the robbery at the Bosletta home old Lathim -tore in No. McAlester: j
ty Attorney Whitt and Assistant I occurred, not only admitted himself that he came down, found ho could |
County Attorney Smith in the prose- \ as one of the principals in the robbery i not get his car that night, and walk- j
cution of the case. I but implicated by his sworn assertions ■ ed back to North McAlester, where
r Been following two of the most *1 The state laid its foundation for a ! b th "pn,'V Fry'.and S. J. Buckner as , he savs, he found Buckner and Fry, |
■ impassioned pleas ever delivered * j conviction on the confession t ; Har- | the other two principals in the affair, j and^thethree of them then decided to
Fr\ are allowed to go under their
T present bonds.
r J. F. Pollock was foreman of
t the jury,
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At 3:45 o'clock Friday after- *
also
the
the
in the Pittsburg County court- * j key, with incidental corroboration by
house, by Guy Andrews for the ★ 1 numerous witnesses on material points
Vfflefense 'and Carl Monk, for the * | in the case, particularly the Bosletta
r state, the case of the state against * family, members of which testified as
c S. J. Buckner and Henry Fry, * j to the identification of either Fry or
chnfged with conjoint robbery, * Buckner
( Went to the jury. The pit-as were
lr heard by a crowd that jammed *
*• the courthouse and overflowed *
out into every available hall, *
► and the closing of the case was *
* one of the most impressive ever *
t witnessed in the courts of this *
r county.
t The jury in the case is as fol- *
The defense based its case on an
alibi, and placed over against the
state's contentions, the statement of
defendants that thev were on the pris-
on grounds at the time of the alleged
robbery and were conducting a search
for hidden liquor, and also on the
testimony of witnesses tending to
fix the time they were alleged to have
f lows: J. F. Pollock, W. Cason, * i been seen at points other than the
t O. P. Proctor, Grover Jennings, * Bosletta place. They also dwel
r Kellv King, William Eastes, *
f Clint Pace, Lee McHenry, Tom *
r Ravburn, J. R. Krebs, H. H. *
r Hightower. E. W. Flynn. *
go back and see if they had left any
money in the trunk; that they went
Harkev went on the stand Wednes- back and found $20 more, and that
, , • . • t hAU iravc him >/ mnrr> fnr t ho /lam.
Harkey's statement had been a most
sensational thing at the time,
day morning, and his testimony oc-
cupied a large part of the morning
together with 'lis cross-examination
by attorneys for the defendant:
stated that he had come originally
they gave him $7 more for the dam
age to his car. Finally, he said, they
went to the home of his son-in-law.
jjc Fred Manville, 401 West Washington
1 Ave., where he called a service car
from Ola. Ark., to Oklahoma City. I ®nd. h*d H tak,? Buckner and Fry to
about 1909, and two years later had j u^lr o °Tfs'i says this was prob-
removed to McAlester, where he has 'v w\c, )n,' , morning.
since resided. He said that he had , Friday night following, he said,
been for about 8 years a minister, and e went back and moved the trunk,
that at present he owns a farm west1 'J. about three-quarters of a
of the city and was, until recentlv, I ( to the old Busby pasture, where
located on it as a fanner. Said his
farm is located about two miles from
the Bosletta place, and that at the
far back
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Last minute development;
as<
lie measurement of the Ford sedan
ar in which L. M. Harkey, one of the
lefendants in the original charge of
on.ioint robbery, declared the three
oen—Harkey, Fry and Buckner—had
rone to the Bosletta home on the night
f December 1. The measurements } with Harkev at various times on the
"ere taken to endeavor to refute wla*. njght of the alleged robb<yy. "are sen-
he state apprehended as an effort or. i tinels stationed by a righteous provi-
he part of the defense to prove that dence to establish the guilt of the de-
he trunk offered in evidence was too ; fendants." He declared that Fry had
arge to be put inside the car-door.
Not onlv were measurements taken,
mt, on the request of a juror that
he trunk be taken to the ear .nd an
.ctual trial made as to whether or not j recognize him "
'JTl,'1 f2-er «£ <l-°°r' Jurpr Me}XT ! He closed in a brief summary of the
r l n/tj by declaring that the alibi, to-
he rear of the courthouse where the ppthel.'with thc possession of thf. pP„
ar said to have ben used on the nijrht r fuL
* rnA «„,i t0 search the grounds, was fram-
<t the robbery was parked and he ((| f h sp f .«coverin ,
SKUStlJ"ISTtS i the real events of the night of the
? the jury then placed the trunkin- robberv/. anH appeaied to the ilirv to
de the car-door, demonstrating that ( . h ^ faets Pc'avefullv and piv(. the
t could be p|aced inside. , state aIK, thr dcfcnf,ants justice,
which, he declared, would mem a
dwelt em-
phatically. on the former good name
of the defendants.
Whitt Opens Argument.
County Attorney Whitt opened the | left Ola, Ark., and a
argument for the state Fridav mom- j 1907
ing. He declared that the state had I Concerning the affair at the Bos-
letta home, and the alleged incidents
leading up to it. Harkey said that Fry
had proposed the matter a few davs
before, but that he had told him he
didn't care anything about taking
part in such a job, but that with lat-
er insistence he finally agreed to meet
with Fry and Buckner at the Doss
House to talk the matter over. Buck-
ner having been mentioned to him bv
Fry, he said, as having information
that there was considerable monev at
the Bosletta home. Said that they
met Monday evening, discussed the
matter some in the Doss House lob-
bv, then went to the rear of the Doss
House pool hall, where they finally
agreed to go out to the Bosletta home
it was later found by the officers.
On the following Sunday night, he
testified, he and Buckner and Fi-v
He declared that the state had j
the j produced an undisputed line of evi-
e Fridav morning, in the closing dence connecting the three men with
the state's rebuttal evidence, was | the robbery, and that the defense alibi
. _ was "but a web cleverely woven by
counsel for the defendants to hide the
real truth;" that the testimony of
witnesses disinterested in the case,
such as Beachboard, Sallis and oth-
ers, connecting the two defendants
remained away from the car in the
ditch after he learned that the Ameri-
can Garage had been telephoned, "be-
cause he knew that Beachboard would
Further evidence offered by the
itate in rebuttal was by Dr. E. M.
>ov. who testified that the condition
if Jake Bosletta, father of the Bos-
ch'Id ren, was such that it was
ressary to bring him into the court-
Aom on an invalid's cot.
jJudge Melton then instructed the
ury as to the various phases of the
■ and their possible verdicts, call-
attention to the validity of an
libi, if properly established and to
he right of the jury to consider cred-
Wlity of witnesses, previous good
aaracter of defendants, etc., and
ltsed with an instruction that if de-
endants were guilty the punishment
Bust be fixed at from 5 to 50 years
a the penitentiary, such punishment
<j be fixed by the court in case the
Ury could not agree on the degree of
mnishment. In event of finding for
no defendants a simple verdict- of
toot guilty" was instructed.
The case has been one of the most
Ibsely followed in the history of the
jSminal prosecutions in Pittsburg
!!ounty, owing to the standing of the
'arious defendants, their former con-
lections in a public way and the ad-
Bittedly unusual incidents alleged,
j The general public has been more
less familiarized with the alleged
fets jn tVo ease, through the accounts
rf the robbery and the recounting of
terts of the alleged statement of Har-
conviction.
Jones For Defense.
Judge Philas Jones, of Wilburton,
opened for the defendants. He de-
clared that attorneys rarely had thc
chance to defend men who bore "so
untarnished a reputation among their
neighbors as do Henry Fry and S. J.
Buckner." He dwelt upon the fact
that the character witnesses brought
were of the best class of citizens and
officials in nublic life. He stressed
the fact that Buckner bore a commis-
sion signed by thc governor, as a
peace officer.
"If these men had committed that
crime that night, why would thev have
driven into the very glare of the pris-
on lights—the most public place in
the county, and where the chances for
identification were a hundred fold
greater than at most anyother place
where the trunk could have been hid-
den ? Thev didn't do it. It's pre-
posterous," he said.
Ho attacked the fact that the state
bad not brought any shavings or
pieces of the trunk to show that it
time of the alleged robbery he owned ! ®t Jh® convict graveyard, near
a Ford sedan car ' tne northeast corner of the prison
Said he had known Frv before he i ?aim- where the possibilities of fram-
ing up an alibi were discussed.
The defense plied the witness with
a severe battery of cross-questioning,
and endeavored to off-set his testi-
mony by attacking his former state-
ment to the county attorney. He ad-
mitted that he had not told the whole
truth in his first statement to the
county attorney, but declared thnt
what he was now telling was the
truth.
Counsel for the defense asked if he
were not testifying in the hope of
saving himself from punishment. This
question raised a sharp issue but
Judge Philas Jones, who was ques-
tioning witness at the time, insisted on
an answer, and Harkey at length ad-
mitted that he was; that he expected
that his "clean breast of the matter"
would be taken into consideration. He
declared, however, that he had been
promised no clemency for his original
statement to the county attorney, and
that it had been purely voluntary.
Character Attacked.
The defense then introduced an ar-
f-
and "look things over," or "get the
lay of the land." Harkey said his
oar was out of repair, so they engaged
Homer Sallis, a service-car driver, to
take them out that night; that they
paid him $2.50 for the trip and boueht
$2 worth of Choctaw beer while there, j ray of character witnesses, in an ...
Harkey said thev returned to McAl- , f'."t ,to imfJf'ach <he character of the
ter that nieht. "and that the nevt s witness. Among these were
ester that night, and that the next
day (Tuesday) Fry again mentioned
the matter to him; that on Wednes-
day the deal for the robbery was fin-
ally framed up, and that after a con-
fa children, was such that it was Judge Philas Jones, of Wilburton, ference with Buckner early in the day,
ressary to bring him into the court- opened for the defendants. He de- he (Harkey) and Fry drove out in the
afternoon to the Bosletta home and
that he went to the house and got
some more beer while Fry examined
Jse and their possible verdicts, call- neighbors as do Henry Fry and S. J. the surroundings from the car and the
Ig attention to thc validity of an Buckner." He dwelt upon the fact road. That evening, he said, he and
llbi, if properly established and to that the character witnesses brought Fry were to meet Buckner at the
Stroud store, near the southeast cor-
ner of the state prison farm, and thev
were to go (in Harkey's car. which.
he said, had been repaired) out to the
Bosletta home.
He said they went according to this
alleged schedule, and on arriving at
the Bosletta place, near the Redman
mine and near the west end of the
penitentiary farm, they left the car
and went up to the house; that Fry
was to be known as "chief" and he
and Buckner as "deputies"; that Fry
was to enter under the pretense of
being a prohibition enforcement offi-
cer, while Harkey was to be posted
near the south door and Buckner at
the north door of the house. He de-
had been cut up on the prison grounds, i clared that Fry brought several of i Among the important state wit-
as claimed by the state. I the rtiembers of the family out and nesses introduced was June Bo 1'i'a.
He asserted that if the robbery oc-1 took them some distance from the ! the 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mary
curred at all. it was probably staged house; that he (Harkey) was then | Bosletta. She testified that sh< was
bv Harkey and two convicts. "I don't ordered to go in and get the "little
t cknow that the house was robbed at I trunk" that was supposed to eon-
py at the time. The Bosletta home , all, but if it was my reasonable con ] tain the money. He said he went in
is alleged to have been robbed on j elusion would be that the job was done; but couldn't find any trunk, and that
le night of December 1 last year, | by Old Man Harkev and two convicts, Buckner then rushed in and crabbed
'ith the loss of $1300 taken from a and that Harkey threw the trunk in I the trunk, telling him to take hold
unk in one of the rooms of the lit-. the old Busby pasture, where the j and help carry it; that thev took it
f home, about 3 miles west of the j officers first found it," he declared. | traight down the hill from the house
ty, near the highway leading out by | He severely arraigned the testi-1 to the main road, and loaded it into
ie south side of the state prison farm, mony of Harkey, declaring tl^ wit-' the car.
. M. Harkey. a former preacher, and ness after witness had declared him | In the meantime, he declared, Fry
ho stated on the witness stand that untruthful, as to reputation, and that, had turned the members of the Bos-
e had not quit preaching, soon after f he had admitted on the stand that he | letta family loose and rejoined him
he robbery declared in a statement changed his statement as to the case, land Buckner, and the three of them.
3 the county attorney that he and S.' "He lied in places in that statement
. Buckner, who had charge of a neni- j and admitted that he lied," exclaimed
entiarv road gang at work on shaling ! the attorney.
1'est Grand Avenue, and Henry Fry. | A bitter denunciation of the Boslet-
ho had been in the enforcement ser-' ta witnesses, as to character, was al-
ice under a commission from J. B. so made by counsel for the defense.'
•owell, had concocted the scheme to | declaring that Mrs. Bosletta had fram-
ob the Bosletta home, and that they , ed up on the county to get a pension
ad actually carried these plans out. j while she was making Choctaw beer
E. F. Mitchell, J. H. Mitchell. J. I.
I'i'ey, W. A. Patterson, R. E. Mitchell,
J. O. Duncan, J. M. Nelms, Mrs. Frank
Manville, Ben Wirt of Dardanelle,
Ark., W. E. Perry of Dardanelle, Ark.,
all of whom testified that Harkoy's
reputation for truth and veracity was
bad. Some of these witnesses, it was
brought out by the state, had had
some trouble with Harkey on former
occpsions. or were related to witness-
es that had. Others had no*. Mr.
Wirt was a former mayor of Dardan-
elle, Ark., and said he had known Har-
kev when he lived in that county.
The defense put special stress on
the fact that Sam L. Morley, former
warden of the state prison, testified
to the good reputation Buckner had
borne under the years he had been in
his employ in connection with road
work.
Still other character witnesses for
Fry were Dr. George A- Kilpatrick, of
this city, formerly of Wilburton, and
Sheriff William Elliott, of Latimer
County, who testified that Fry had
borne a good reputation when he liv-
ed at Wilburton.
Other State Witnesses.
at home on the night of the alleged
robbery, December 1, 1920, and that
the family had all retired. She said
some one knocked at the door: that
her mother got up and lighted the
lamp, and that she "the witness) op-
ened the door. She said the voice
outside r.a'! said, 'It is the law Open
the door,' and that the dooi wa< not
opened until afte.- ;'i.ee demands i>v
knocking had be- i made. She testi-
fied that when thf door was opened
a man entered, der'r.td he was an of-
ficer of the law, a-lvd if sny Choc
father, Jake Bosletta. exclaimed: |
"That was not he law; it was rob-
bers," and that they found that the
trunk in which Mrs. Bosletta kept her
money was gone.
"Could you identify the man who
came in and put the hand-cuffs on
your mother? asked County Attor-
ney Whitt.
"Yes," she answered.
"Do you see him in the courtroom
at this time?" asked the county at-
torney.
"Yes; that is he over there" (indi-
cating Mr. Fry, one of the defend-
ants.)
She said she saw the bulk of an-
other man during the affair, a tall
slender man, but couldn't make out
who it was. She told of her visit to
the home of J. B. Dowell, enforce-
ment officer, later, and said that, she
recognized Fry there that day as the
man who had come into the house on
the night of the robbery.
Counsel for the defense undertook
to discount her identification of Fry
at the Dowell home by pointing out
that there was no one else there whom
she did not know at the time, she in-
sisted that she recognized him "the
moment he came in sight."
Her younger brother, Jake,
testified, largely corroborating
testimony of the girl.
Mrs. Bosletta was placed on
stand and made an interesting wit-
ness, owing to her quick replies and
her more or less broken English. She
admitted making Choctaw beer and
that her place was frequented by per-
sons who came there to drink; said
she had been making it for several
years. She gave much the same tes-
timony as to the visit that night as
related by h<%- children. She said
"re was as much as $1300 that she
kntiv of in the trunk, $1100 in a
chewing-gum box and $200 in another
roll.
Testified From Cot.
Jake Bosletta, her husband, was
brought in and testified from an in-
valid cot. He had to be wheeled into
the courtroom. He also spoke Eng-
lish very brokenly, and an interpreter
was used, John B. Tua acting in this
capacity.
Witness testified that he was 58
years old: said that the house was
entered that night by man pretend-
ing to be officer, and that his wife
and son were handcuffed and told
they would be taken to jail; that when
his wife protested about his illness
she was told there would be "some-
body there to take care of him through
the night;" said he saw a man at the
foot of his bed with a revolver drawn
on him ; that an instant later he heard
a noise like some one moving the
trunk: that he recognized the man
with the gun as Mr. Buckner, and that
after he heard the noise like the trunk
being moved he "didn't see the gun
nor Mr. Buckner anymore;" that he
heard somebody .etroating from thc
house toward the road.
"You knew the man who was point-
ing the gun at you?" inquired the
county attorney.
"Yes," was thc reply. "It was Mr.
Buckner." He said he had known Mr.
Buckner for several years, and that
he had come to the house on a num-
ber of occasions.
Several members of the family
identified t.he trunk exhibited in the
courtroom as the trunk that was tak-
en from the home- The girl was the
first to identify it. declaring it was
"daddy's trunk." The trunk exhibit-
ed in the courtroom as the one found
in the old Busby pasture was a small
trunk about 30 inches long and about
15 inches wide and 20 inches high.
It had a hole apparently whittled in
one side, which Harkey declared was
where the monev had been pulled out
when the trunk was being rifled in
the prison premises, as he asserted in
his testimony.
Homer Sallis, taxi-driver, testified
that he had driven Buckner, Fry and
Harkey out to the Bosletta home on
the Monday night preceding the rob-
bery, and that they bad drunk some
beer there that night. He also testi-
fied to being called by telephone to
the comer of C and Washington (near
th< home of Harkey's son-in-law,
where Harkey was staying) about 3
o'clock Thursday morning, following
the evening the robbery occurred, and
that he picked up Fry and liuckner
there and took them to their homes.
Uracil board As Witness.
C. II. Beachboard, of the American
(Continued on Last Page.)
'he arrest of Fry and Buckner follow
rl soon after the date of the robbery,
oth being later released on bail. Har-
ey made a second statement to t'.e
> kinty attorney, making certain
changes in his first statement, and
without any promise of immunity
from the prosecutor's office. He was
placed under bond of $1000
for a living, and that her daughter
had led a life as a professional dancer,
"not on the elevating, educational
stage, but on the second-class, variety
stage, the indecent stage, if you
please." he said. "Are you going to
put the credibility of such witnesses
over against the testimony of such
character witnesses as the defense has
kin opening the case and placing brought in?"
larkey on the state as a state wit-1 H<■ referred to the five years that
his attorney-of-record, W. E. Buckner testified he had served as
McAlester. He said he was driving
I and that Buckner and Fry constantly
urged him to step on the gas.
"They told me to hurry," said Har-
key. "Buckner said to me: 'Hell, the
way you are driving, that old wo-
man will get on her gray ponv and
catch us before we got to town."
Harkey said that all three of them
were armed and that Buckner had
some handcuffs. "We were all drink-
ing some, too," Harkey said, "and as
for myself, I was prettv well tanked
up."
Witness said that in turning a
sharpe curve, near the drain on the
east side of the penitentiary farm,
the car got unmanageable and went
told there was, he took a container «f
beer 'ind poured it out: tha he then
lectured her parents for bringing the
children up under such conditions, and
tolu them to get ready to go to town;
that he 'vould have to take them in
that ni,.ht and r v.crt what he ha 1
found at the place.
She testified that he handcuffed
her mother and her brother and took
them, together with two or three of
the other children and started as if
going to McAlester; that they went
about 100 yards from the house and
were finally told that they would be
allowed to stay at home that night,
if they would report to "the iudge"
in the morning at 10 o'clock; that he
THEN GIRLS VANISH
After cashing a $100 check at a
local bank and buying a vaiiety of
knick-knacks, two young girls from
Crowder disappeared from McAles-
ter Monday afternoon and have not
been seen or heard from since, de-
spite the fact that every form of in-
quiry, from long-distance telephon-
ing to police inquiry in a score of
cities far and near, has been resort-
ed to.
The gill, were Eileen Smith, aged
14 years, daughter of C. M- Smith,
well known real estate man and pio-
neer resident of Crowder, and Miss
Massey, aged 15, daughter of Willis
Massey, a retired farmer of the
Crowder community, now living" in
Crowder.
The girls left home Monday morn-
ing, without apparently any special
previous planning and without giving
anyone notice of their departure. They
came to McAlester on the Katy pas-
senger train which arrives about noon.
They hunted up Mr. J. W. Bunch,
proprietor of the Puritan Cafe, and
whom they knew through former resi-
dence of Mr. Bunch and his family in
Crowder. Miss Massey had a check
for $100 which she wanted to get
cashed, and they came to Mr. Bunch
for this reason- They represented
that they wanted to buy some fash-
ionable coats at a local department
store, in explanation of why they had
need for so much money.
After getting the check cashed,
however, it was learned that instead
of buying these garments, they made
some little purchases about town, and
early in the evening went into a mov-
ing-picture show. That was the last
seen or heard of them.
Relatives from Crowder got busy,
when it appeared that something was
wrong about the whereabouts of the
girls, who were supposed by the home-
folks to have been in school at Crow-
der that day, and a search was start-
ed. Systematic inquiry throughout
the city proved fruitless. Long-dis-
tance calls to Wilburton. Cushing,
Yale, Norman and other points where
one or the other of the girls had rela-
tives brought no news of them, and
up till Thursday their whereabouts
was as big a puzzle as ever. Miss
Smith is known to have a sister resid-
ing at Wilburton, another at Norman
and a sister-in-law at Yale, Okla., but
none of these had any news of the
runaways.
They had a rather liberal supply
of money, as it is said they had $50
in addition to thc $100 check cashed
through Mr. Bunch.
The girls have always been dutiful,
home-loving children, and this makes
their sudden leave-taking all the more
mysterious to their families.
An older sister of Miss Smith re-
turned to her home at Crowder, Wed-
nesday afternoon, after having given
up hope of locating them in this city.
with the trunk, started east toward taw beer was in thi house, and when
into the ditch. Said he telephoned to left them and they hurried back to
the American Garage and that Mr. the house; that as they entered, her
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