The Guthrie Daily Star (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 138, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 18, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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THE GUTHRIE DAILY STAR
NiNTH YEAR.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1012.
NUMBER 138.
GUILTY
Jury Out Only 37
Minutes Returns
Verdict in Favor
of Labor Atty.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.—Clarence
S. Darrow, the noted Chicago lawyer,
was found not guilty today of the
charge of bribing a juror in the Mc-
Namara case. The jury was out juat
thirty-four minutes.
Only one ballot was taken and each
juror voted not guilty.
There was a spontaneous outburst
of applause when Foreman Williams
stated that the jury had found a ver-
dict of not guilty.
Darrow approached the jurors,
each of whom remained in the box,
to thank them. Jurors Golding and
Dunbar threw their arms, arount^
Darrow and patted his back. Other
jurors reached forward and clasped
hands with the attorney. Then the
crowd hurried forward and Darrow
bffcame the center of an enthusiastic
reception.
Judge Hutton In his charge elim-
inated the first count in the indict-
ment, that Darrow had bribed George
N. Lockwood, a regularly drawn jur-
oii in the case of J. B. McNamara.
The evidence, Judge Hutton instruct-
ed, jiid not justify a verdict of guilty
on the first count.
The second count charged Darrow
with attempting corruptly to influ-
ence a man about to be drawn as a
juror.
The court also instructed that a
verdict of guilty could not be found
on the uncorroborated evidence of
accomplices.
"If you had no evidence independ-
ent of the testimony of accomplices,"
said the Judge, "you must find the
defendant not guilty."
"Admission made to accomplices by
the defendant should not be regarded
WARM UP
POLITICS
BEGINS
LOOKY
HERE 1!
VOTES FOR
WOMEN 1 1
Down with net!
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II FULL STATE
Candidates For Congressmen at Large
and All State Officers Have Been Se-
lected by Bull Moosers
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 17.—(Spe- I Ardmore; W. B. Tucker of Berlin and
cial)—Candidates for United States C. L. McArthur of Lindsay. Petitions
Senator Congressmen at Large, Cor- will bo circulated for the purpoao of
| poratlon Commissioners and Judge placing these candidates on tho bal-
MYSTERY IN FOUL MURDER
OP MAN ON LONELY ROAD
lot under the title of non-partisan
which the advisory committee claims
. is allowed by the Oklahoma constltu-
1 tion. The Progressive leaders feel
that a much stronger fight can be
made in the state with a full ticket
, in the field and for that reason that
course was pursued. In case the
election board refuses to allow the
filing of these names a mandamus
FOB REST YEAR
! The following delegates to the
I State Labor Convention, Ernst Lan-
| gehennig, R N. Conner, J. W. Down-
j ing, Chas. Pond, Paul Bethel, S. P.
Gardner, J. I. Loveless and E. S.
j Lowther will go to Shawnee tills
1 morning. The convention will be in
session three days, commencing Mon-
day.
For Muskogee >'ext Year.
At a caucus of the delegates !ast
' night held at labor hall it was uuan-
I itm-utly decided to support Muskogee
I for il e next convention.
the Criminal Court of Appeals, Al-
! LINDSAY, ok., Aug. 17.—(Special) j one of the masked men shot him. bert Ronnie, of Pauls Valley.
j—Bert Bell was shot and almost in- ^ ^ that Bel1 fel1 instantly and The following ten men. two from
1 that they ran for the assassin could ■ each Congressional district, were
■ get further action with his gun. Up- : chosen to make the race for preslden-
on investigation it was discovered tial electors—VV. 0. Cromwell of En-
that the bullet had entered Bell's back ^d; R. M. Chilcott of Guthrie; F N.
and had taken a downward course, Winslow of Carmen; Henry Schaef-
lodging in his right lung. Physicians i fer of El Reno; Lew Betts of Musko-
stated that it would be impossible ! gee; Alex Denison of Claremore; Ed
fo^'ii biiilet fired into the body while | orWltTwf^W-Durant : Mike Gorman- of
stantly killed >n the railroad yards
here at an early hour this morning.
The positive murderers of Bell are
unknown and a certain amount of
mystery surrounds the killing. Sev-
eral suspects are held but at the
present time no arrests have been
made. JBhortly after the shooting,
Rusty Engle and Jim Eatroan, tele-
phoned the city marshal, Sam Ever-
ett and claimed to have been with
Bell at the time of the shooting. Tbey
stated that the hree of them were
held up by two masked men and or-
dered to throw up their hands, and
that Bell reached for his gun and
of the criminal court of appeals were
selected Saturday by the executive
Committee of the Progressive party
of Oklahoma. The selection of a
candidate for Justice of the Supreme
Court will be made In a few days and
the various Congressional commit-
tees will select candidates for Con-
gross in each district. Those select-
ed were United State Senator, J. H.
Johnston of Oklahoma City; Con-| proceedings will be commenced im-
i gressmen at Large, Judge A A. ; mediately.
Small, of Tulsa, E. L Persons, of It was also announced Saturday
Chickasha and P. C. Coleman of Wil- |that a mandamus proceeding to com-
, burton; Corporation Commissioner, 'pel the state election board to place
, J. C. Davis of McAlester; Judge of j the ten candidates receiving the high-
est vote from the entire state on tho
ballot as presidential electors wffi
be commenced In the near future.
Word was received here today that
Colonel Rosoevelt w<j<ild Bpeak at
various points In Oklahoma during
the month of September and that Gov
ernor Hiram Johnson of California,
the Progressive candidate for vide
president would also take part in
the campaign in Oklahoma.
in a standing position and entering
is this did to take a downward course
and that Bell must have been shot
while sitting down or being on the
ground.
Blood hounds were brought here
from Chickasha but were of no ser-
vice, as the trail had been killed by
many people passing over it.
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AFTER ALL, I 10
PEACH SEASON AT ITS
HEIGHTH N0W;L0GAN TO
LOSE A HUNDRED CARS
IS
The height of the Logan county
peach season will be reached today
and notwithstanding the fact that it
is Sunday, activity in the various
peach packing stations In the coun-
! SANTA ROSA, CAL., Aug. 17.—Ad- ty will be at the highest Every peach
'am Clark, a 15-year-old boy of Wind- owner in every shed in the county is [>! too ripe to ship.
; sor, In a confession after his arrest I putting on extra packers and pickers j Although Logan county will ship
| last night upon the charge of respon- | today and from this time on will work j more than 500 car loads it is estimat-
OKlXhOMA CITY, Aug. 17.—(Spe- sibility for tha death of his mother the fullest capacity of the packing edl that the growers will lose at least
have already been shipped. Because
of the warm, dry weather of the
ptvst ten days the 'peaches are ripen-
ing at a rapid rate, the owners are
forced to get them to the markets
within a short time or they will all
TO START MS
LIFE ANEW III
E
cial)—Judge J. J. Carney had only ; and the illness of two other persons,
37 votes to spare In hiB race for the told how and why he put poison in
Democratic nomination for Congress-
man from the Second district. Com-
plete returns from every county in
the district give Judge Carney 3906
votes to 3868 for James S. Ross and
3730 for E. W. Cornell. The advan-
tage of having first place on the 'pri-
mary ballot was demonstrated in the
case of Rank Adams of Ardmore, the
Democratic candidate for Congress-
man at Large. Because of the fact
that his name came first on the bal-
lot, Adams, who is a clerk in a fur-
nishings store at Ardmore, received
food at his home. ' Mrs. Augusta
Clark, the mother, died last night.
James Clark, the father, is expected J
to die and John Ruddel, a neighbor,
is in a serious condition.
■The mother and father of the boy I
separated some time ago. Recently '
the boy went to work with a hay
baling crew and his mother objected, j
It was his custom to visit her occas- j
ionally and each time he did so she 1
became seriously 111. The last time J
she was ill her husband returned to
nurse her and the hoy visited them.
sheds 100 car loads of peaches Which will
More than 150 car loads, estimated bo too ripe before they can be har-
at one fourth of Logan's peach crop I vested.
N.Y. UNDERWORLD
HUNTING COVER
MUSKOGEE, OK., Aug. 17.—(Spe-
cial)—Jack Davis, chief survivor of
the Davis clan which caused bo much
trouble at Porum will begin life In
a new state. With his family, he will
leave this city for Monument, New,
| Mexico, in the wilds of Eddy county,
' more than 60 miles from a railroad,
i More than 40 years ago Davis came
to Oklahoma from Georgia, the cottn-
' try at that time being entirely un-
inhabited. The Davis t>oys wer.i na-
tural cattlement and It was not long
until they had acquired thousands of
j acres of land and a sthey were Cher-
| okees the combined allotments of the
mombiTB of the cilferent families be-
1 came very valuable.
\'o"v, after nearly twent.' y?nrs of
' flghtinr with rustlers, homesteaders,
! membtrs of their own clan and op-
I posing factions <md the onward
march of civilization, the; hive glv-
| en ut the struggle and devl led to
migrate to a new > nd unsettle d c >un-
try
CHICAGO WINS
THIRD F
I. II
CHICAGO. Aug. 17— (Special)—
Before a record bieaking crowd to-
day, the Cubs walked off in a 6 to 6
victory in the most spectacular game
of the series which commenced on
Thursday. It took eleven innings to
decide the contest, after New York
had tied things up in the ninth in-
ning.
The score by innings— R H E
Chicago 000 300 101 01—6 12 0
New York ... .^03 100 001 00—5 13 2
Batteries, Ritchie and Archer, Mat-
thewson and Myers and Wilson.
j Tin game was won in tho eleventh
inning by Archer, when he drove the
first ball pitched to him into deep
1 center, scoring Evers
' Fans herp tonight are wild over
the victory because this leaves their
team only five games behind the lead-
ers—the New York Giants—for tha
i National league pennant.
more votes than such well known j The husband also became ill and Rud
men as Fred Branson, former chair- I ^el came to nurse them both. Again
NEW YORK, Aug. 17—New York's
underworld received a shock today
when it heard that the supreme court
Intended to conduct a grand jury in-v
man of the Democratic state commit- j the boy came home and Ruddel was : vestlgation into police graft, the inves
tee, J. Y. Callahan of Enid, Pat taken ill. The peculiar clrcumstanc- Itlgation coming as a co-rollary frofif
Gouldlng of Enid. Judge J. B. A. Rob- eB attending the illness of the Clarks
ertson of Chandler and L. G. Niblack aroUsed the suspicions of the auth-
of Guthrie. i oritles and Adam was brought to the
Adams' total vote throughout the j jan in this city. He admitted he had
state was 23,709. The final returns , putf poison in the coffe pot at his
did not change any of the relative po- J mither's home each time he was
sltions of the winning candidates. there on a visit.
W. H. Murray of Tishlmingo lead j His reason for doing this, he said, 'ported intentions of the supreme court
with 38,435, while Joe Thompson of j was that his mother continually pro- I John Doe inquiry.
the Rosenthal conspiracy inquisition.
I Many gamblers and denizens of the
[half world as scurrying from the city
j this morning. Every channel in
j the subterranean system of vice link-
! Ing o claldom and resort keeperls
j is to be searched, according to the re-
ers of disorderly houses and force
them to tell how much money was
paid for police protection and to
whom the money was paid. The al-
dermanio inquiry will co-operate with
the work of the supreme court.
Evidence is in the hands of the
District Attorney that disorderly
houses in the city paid over $1,000,-
000 for police protection during the
last year and that this money went
to certain police inspectors and oth-
ers higher up.
The punishment Inflicted upon In-
spector Hayes by reducing him to the
Pauls Valley was second with 31,702 [ tested against hiB working with the] it was thought that a supreme I rank of captain and then suspend-
and Claude Weaver of Oklahoma City baling crew. - court inquiry would accomplish much \ ing him on the charge that he failed
was third with 26,876. —
BETTER TELL
WALKS 70 MILES m II COST (00
HANNIBAL, MO., Aug. 17.—Mayor
George W. Davis and Captain L. P.
Owen of Jacksonville, 111., walked
from their home in that city, seven-
ty miles, to witness a ball game in
Hannibal today. They saw the game
between Hannibal and Burlington
and will take a train tomorrow for
Qulncy.
|!more In searching out crime than an to keep hi sdistrict clean 1b believed
Don't forget on Tuesday night the aldermanlc investigation is the ques- 1 to be the forerunner of a general po-
!"Lady of the Lake" for the capital j tlon has been raised whether the com- lice shake up by Police Commission-
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gunter and son, ! {und a r€ei 3000 feet, also a Pathc ; mittee of aldermen would have pow- j er Waldo, who is now convinced that
E. H., Jr., leave this morning for Law- reel 'of 1000 feet and High Class j er to force wltnesess to testify the police have deceived him as to
ton, where they will spend the week j vaudeville, at the Elite Theatre. Ev- , Under John Doe proceedings, Jus- | gambling and vice conditions. Com-
visiting with their numerous friends. I ervbody come! !tIce Goff can cal1 Samb,ere and keeP' missioner Waldo said:
"There is proof now of laxity and
! bad work on the part of certain in-
I spectors and policemen. If these
men have been downright crooks the
truth will come out and they will be
; punished. If they have erred through
j stupidity or carelessness they will be
j required to change their ways or I
'will fire them from the department."
The county election board are now
waiting for the filing of the expense
accounts by the various candidates
who were voted on at the primary
election. Some of the candidates ap-
pear to think that they are not really
required to make any such report to
the county election board, but they
will very suddenly change their
minds one of these fine mornings,
and very soon. The law is very plain
and very specific as to just what shall
i and what shall not be done about the
matter.
Miss Anna O'Neill of Oklahoma
j city is visiting over Sunday with Mrs.
Arnold at the Hotel lone.
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