Marietta Monitor (Marietta, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1923 Page: 3 of 8
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(By W F Bickford)
Oklahoma City— Sailing a come
what uncharted tea Governor J C
Wulton of Oklahoma kas established
a policy Involving a freer use of arm-
led trpopH than Is customary In Amer
lean stales
Launching hls'tbird military adven
ture since his inauguration seven
mfmths ago— ao order placing the city
of Tulsa under martial law— live gov-
ernor took occaalou to emphasize the
arbitrary power be wished to vest in
bis national guard officers In tbelr
administration of government in the
city which proudly boasts tbe tIUe of
"Oil Capital” of the woild
After ordering crack units of the
179th Infantry with automatic rides
and steel helmets to take over the
maintenance of order In Tulsa August
14 the governor apparently as an aft-
erthought diiected Attorney-General
George F Short to Institute ao Inquiry
into the circumstances surrounding
tbe whipping of Nathan lfantaman by
a Tulsa masked band It was Hants-
man's flogging following his kidnaping
virtually at the door of police head
quarters which led to tbe martial law
proclamatioo
The state’s attorney at first demur-
red to the governor’s suggestion that
he conduct- bis probe in conjunction
with the military occupation but at
length complied and proceeded to
TuIbu His fiisl utterance after sur-1
veying the situation was a telegram
to Governor Walton recommending
that the boldlers be withdrawn and
declaring that the sheriff and police
department were performing their
duty and maintaining order
To this the governor responded
brusquely that the military was in su
preme control and that Short must
lake his orders from Adjutant-General
Baird IL Markham Short lelt Tulsa
for Oklahoma City soon thereafter
two- of bis assistants and Dick Lou-
than his chief secret Service opera-
live remaining
Instead (it reducing tbe armed force
General Maikham extended the zone
of martial law so that it covered the
-ntire southern half of Tuisa county 1
and launched a sweeping investigation
of the last six months whipping pur-
ties arresting many persons on sus
picion
At the time martial law was de-
clared Governor Walton was on a
brief trip to Ardmore and Sulphur
with Executive Counselor Aldrich
Blake In charge at tbe capitol It was
Blake who saw the angry welts on
Huntsman's back when the fulsan
came to Oklahoma City to show the
governor bow the mob had treated
him It was on Blake’s telephone
message to Walton that the latter au-
thorized the sending of tbe troops I
Tbe governor was still in touch with
his office only by telephone a few
days later when ao anonymous letter
was received threatening him with a
fate "the same us that of others” un
less the troops were withdrawn from R"esearrht a prviately-financed organ!
Tulsa at once The state authorities i2alion g sponsor for the ronstitu-
planned to ask aid of the postofflee -tiona ampndnlent
now proposed
Inspectors In tracing the author of the Hearings on all applications for par-
etler’ I dons and paroles are provided with
Hantamaa was unable to walk when fu pubIici(y compelled The governor
he reached Oklahoma City announc- must be Ruidpd bv be recoromenda
ing that the governor bud bad him
brought over from Tulsa He lay in j
a hotel room his back and legs a mass
tbe confidence of the public and wat
trying to do his duty
While petition circulators mads
frenzied efflorts to secure signers for
a proposed constitutional amendment
depriving the chief executive ot lilt
arbitrary pardoning power Governoi
1 1 'J C Walton revoked one of the most
universally condemned acts of clem-
ency In the long list marking his brii f
administration
Yielding to the plea of a returned
soldier the governor ordered that It a
Williams Enid tire salesman be lak
en Into custody again to serve the
balance of tbe 25 year term Inflicted
him for a particularly revolting case
of criminal assault He had been pa
roled In April after serving two years
Sue Bonds a beautiful and unso-
phisticated country girl Horn Russell
ville Ark was Williams’ victim She
was the cigar stand pioprielress in an
Okmulgee hotel aod accepted the
salesman's attentions on his visits to
the town That was In the summer ol
1918
Villlams drunk assaulted the girl
choked and beat her when she resist-
ed and left her half dead on a country
road outside Okmulgee She recover-
ed rrom the Injuries but died in less
than a year the indirect result of her
mistreatment
A jury sentenced Williams to 99
years in prison hut the criminal court
of appeals reduced the term to 25
years and committed him to the pen-
itentiary In 192L His parole was
granted on the ground that his mother
needed his services
The returned soldier In the case was
Holden H Vance of Russellville Miss
Bonds' sweetheart
“At the time this crime waB corn
mitted" he wrote Governor Walton
recently "I was in the service under
orders to sail overseas I was on my
way across at the time of the trial
“Miss Bonds' death was caused di-
rectly from the effects of this crime
She died one year later living just
one month after I was discharged
from tbe army She lay on her death
bed and told me from her own lips the
story of the crime I pledged her then
that I would do ail in my power to
see that Ira Williams received his Just
punishment"
During the brief time that Williams
was serving his sentence there were
reports that be was treated with un-
usual consideration at the prison and
that he bad been made a salesman for
prison-made binder twine This was
denied vigorously by prison officials
The present campaign to curb the
pardon and parole power of the gover-
‘ nor is tbe second such effort in the
history of Oklahoma During the ad
ministration of Governor Lee Crure
1911-1915 tbe legislature partly at
his instance created a pardon and pa-
role hoard on whose recommendation
only clemency was to be granted The
governor became disappointed with
the personnel of his board soon afier
its appointment and was forced to a
long court battle to remove the mem
bers The following legilature repeal
ed the law
Campbell Russell former slate' sen
ator ex chairman of the state corpo-
ration commission Nemesis of all par-
don granting governors and now man-
ager of the Bureau of Governmental
CUTCHINCcling
ing digging the
big thick blocks of
tho famous Good
ysar All-Weather
Tread bite through
mud or snow to solid
footing bensath
That powerful grip
means safety and it
means economy too
for it insures against
spinning wheels loss
of traction and un-
due engine strain
At Goodyoor Station
Oooiart wo stH and r acorn
mmnd thm now Goodyoor
Cords with tho kooolod Ail
Womthor Trmmd ond km eh
thorn op with stondord j
Goodyoor Sorrtco
STRICKLIN MOTOR CO
Marietta Okia
goobsar
$500 REWARD
I will pay the above reward for
the arrest of the party who took a
scraper and double tree from my
home in Marietta and for the return
of the scraper and double tree
GEO W BURNETT
i Marietta Okia
of open wounds while agents of the
governor talked to him
A police character at Tulsa and
under sentence for vagrancy Hanta-
man and Mrs Mabel West operate
tiie Colorado Hotel he told Counselor
Blake On tbe evening of August 10
Hanlamau was told the pofioe captain
wanted him Questioned at police
headquarters about the hotel and al-
leged traffic in whisky and drugs Hun-
tsman was told be might go j
As he left police station iwo men
stopped him and directed him to go
bark in telling him that N-ed Oritts
head of the police vice-squad wanted
him As he turned around he was '
seized and pushed into a wailing aulo- j
mobile Despite his screams llanta-
j man was driven about the business
district bis captois free from police
interference and taken then lo the
suburbs
Others Joined the actual kidnappers
must be guided by
lions of the board
The state organization of traveling
salesmen is just as eager for the par
rdon amendment as is Russel) They
became active when Governor Wtalton
'declaring he would permit no electro-
cutions during his term of olfioe re-
prieved Arthur Henderson confessed
‘murderer of William Prewett Oklalio
tma City salesman who "gave a lilt”
to Henderson and his companions be
Jlween here and Chickasha
Eighty thousand signatures on the
petition are necessary before the gov
ernor Is compelled to submit a consti
tulional amendment to the people The
number required increases as the vot
log population of the stale is shown
to he greater by each succeeding gen
eral elect inp
Governor Walton has prociuimed a
Rpeolal election for October 2 in order
that the people may vote on five state
questions snbmitted by the last legis
lature
Heading the list is the $55000000
soldier bonus bill which provides for
in a secluded spot and Hantaman was the issuance of bonds to be retired by
questioned at Jength Then he said
"tie was si ripped aud his hands tied to-
gether over the limb of a tree Each
member of the baud in turn then
flogged hint with a blacksnake whip
Enable to walk Ilan Inman was found
late at night outside the city of Tulsa
on a much traveled highway
Before he had been lound Mis
West had telephoned to Go ernor
Walton and an official investigation
was launched Both Chief of Police
Reese Moran of Tulsa and County
increased Income tax levies particu-
larly against corporations A similar
proposal was defeated by a small mar
gin last year
Another proposal is a constitutional
amendment paving the way tor exten-
sion of Ihp workman’s compensation
law to rav-s in which death occurs
The present constitutional provision
bars compulsory compensation by de-
claring that the right to sue in cases
of death shall not he abrogated
Under another bill all legal disabii
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Your druggist will refund the
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FOR MONUMENTS
Come to the yard at Ardmore
Large stock to select from
VERNON C TORRANCE
Ardmore Okia
Sheriff San lord denied that officers itles qow suffered by women are to bs
hwl turned Hnnlaman over to his removed
manhandlers or that whipping parlies A fonrjh authorizes a state tax levy
had been winked at iu tho past J annually sufficient to provide $15 per
Tulsa chafed under the unsiiual re-
striiint that accoinpauied the military
oceupation The adjutant general or-
dered that the streets be cleared from
11:30 p m to 6 a m and that no cit-
izen be abroad except with a military
peimit Cilticism of martial law by
the city’s newspapers was torbidden
under penalty of ’suppression
Attorney Genentl Short was direct
ed by the governor to supersede Coun-
ty Attorney John Goldesberry but re-
fused declaring that Guldcsberry had
child toward maintenance of schools
in every district in the state
Th other proposal is that sufficient
of the state receipts be diverted from
the treasury to pay the losses of de-
positors in more than 30 state banks
w-hich failed after the depositors' gua-
ranty fund became depleted Tbe
losses have been various! v estimated
at from $3000000 to $15 000000 de-
pending upon the liquidation value ot
the vailnus assets taken over by the
state
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Choate, Henry Willis. Marietta Monitor (Marietta, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1923, newspaper, August 24, 1923; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1753567/m1/3/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.