Deputy Marshal Wilson Through Mistake Kills Sylvester Morris

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TULSA. Indian Territory, FRIDAY AUGUtiT M, 190T
PUTY MARSHAL WILSON THROUGH
MISTAKE KILL Sylvester MOrris
JiWJrUL^TRAOEDY MARKS  LAST PERIOD 0? CARPET BAG RULE DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHALS WILSON AND McLAUGHLIN ACTING UNDER. THE '
THEORY THAT ALL CITIZENS ARE DESPERADOES UNTIL THEY PROVE
THEIR INNOCENCE S HOT DOWN IN COLD BLOO D AN AGED AND HONORABLE TULSA CI TIZEN BECAUSE BX.PIB_N_QT_STOP HIS TEAM
I   ftve children  IU
if (be nefasloui
f   IMra and la mental lone are mill
t  (led with (he curses anil Impre
I cailon* which an outraged
i  niun.ry are   pouring   upon   (he
**iT* n fttre-men who- ehol their
'   Uiht away.   A more Inexcusable
r-crime »« navar enacted In the
i   history of  Tula*  and   (h<
or man who dld"lt are a. ihoun-
TOl tlmea Maw walintaal ta in -
taut and purpose than (he little
r two'By"four bootleggers avheee
they claim   to  be  en*
dea voting (o eiterml
deed taat night waa murder and
> unprovoked murder at that *nd
> the perpetrator* should be made
i to »uftrr the rull extent or the
1  penalty  even   to   death   on  the   '
r« >r< he waa a preacher, but nbmtt
i  years ago  he    retired  to  private
lie  owns  considerable   property
e.   He haa six children, four daugh-
srribe It wan a crime for which
akeorately no excuse can be of-    '
end culminate, a eertaa of   '
cefoi episode* whl
rked In aBafl and shame «
beg  rale  In   totaa  and   the
rvlng   everybody   to   be   despcr»
and      outlaw*.       and    going
t theory. Deputy United. States
1 R. C.   Marshal   R    C.   Wllson
1 and   inatantly .   killed   Hylvei
I. ace- 74 rears, but night about
'dock.    Two  bullet*   took   >R*cL
• back, one passing  through  the
a of the heart and the other one
and  a   third
ip aged
uihTt-MtfU'.aj! »■■ '^'j* "Y
•hooting
■at the coir
ner of Third  and Cheyenne
nue. was the drat  wllneaa 10 take the
•(and.    He  aald   he  heard   five   i
about iJO o'clock but did not aee the
■hooting.    He atated tl
acquainted with Mr   Morris
J. W. Holloway. a real dent of No
nf!h_and   Elwood    avenue    nald    that
he heard  Ave ahoti
He knew nothing further In
tbe ■ ho.)ling —
C. L. Carter, who Uvea on
weet- uuewar of -North Fifth
Cheyenne   avenue  and   the   first   man
to Mr. Morrla after the •hooting, aald
he hear I the shooting but did
I up
i  ih.
• driver.   Ha
Wilson atated thai he mis-
old gentleman for a boot leg -
had no Intention of killing *n
man. : Hi.-.ever, thla doea
Mm- fee ahnottng.
Morris waa returning from
where, he, bad been to get
native lumber for the purpose of
a house tn the Bellvlew ad-
He waa returning from hla
lubtedly heard the
__Jhxl_and^bellevlhg It
a band of robbers put whip to
ThirmadVofflcern Wllaon
McOlotfcln think that he 'waa a
and they pdX rotih aver-*
pprehend him Wllaon aald
'ted. halt several tlmee and the
kept going farter He fired two
m the air and fired three ahota
man Initanlly taking hi* Ufa.
horses galloped on down Flrat
I Cheyenne avenue,  turning fH>**to
u aim mrupud.   ttn wf»M ot
awakened    aereral    people
trum—retina   attv
1 lying;  m   the    bottom  of  the
haamhh II ■■■■« nrtmaw
went over to the Morrla home and Informed Mr* Morrla that the team had
run away, and that be would unhitch
It and put .It In the bam. He went
out, to the wagon and aa he peiied
the corner of (He wagon he noticed
the head of tbe deceased under the
wagon pent He went to him and found
blood on hla ahlrt. He then called hla
wife and Mr- Boswell, and sent * little
boy after it John H French. He aald
he got a lantern and looked at the
body. " He then telephoned for the
police
Dr. John 8 French took the aland
and aald he made a partial examination
and found Mr Morrla waa dead. He
found one bullet had entered through
the hack and came out through the
breast, piercing the region of the heart.
Tne aecond lodged In the atomacb and
(ha third pnseed through the left leg
had taext_ ahot^from the Jeft and
Ha i
.Henry Kinsel. ot Flrst atreet and
Elgin avenue heard two ahota and
■aw a man running and aaked who
he waa after and received the follow-
■■Oo
a hell
ing reply:
man wore a light colored hat ana wai
not sixty tttt aw*y from the wagon
He did not' aee any one In the wnarm
He did not know Wllaon but recognised the hm     He aafd th* leam wai
what Officer Wllaon had told him.    r
I wan not  there and  gave nothing  b
JTU police department wan notified,   "hearsay" evidence.    He  aald  he  an
learned thi
Hon had received notice of a man being killed Wllexn >ald ho knew then
he had ktlM him
Wilson then gave himself up to. Com
m!-sinner Hvam- Hyama declared
Wttaon nnd=r artwt «n<! placed him In
charge of the wllneaa Thla morning
Cnrrunlaeloner Hyama. Officer Wllaon
and McGlothln went (o Uueknge* tn
ccniul with United Stttea Marahal
t.eo Bennett
W H Lewiswho live* on Detroit
avenue between Third and Pnurtlj
atreet gave about aa authentic Information In regard to ihe ahnotlng a*
«'»   dlacloaed.     He   aald   he   ,.-,»■   the
t three mlnutea ufw
did not know came by. H naked Wil.
son who he waa after and he aald:
"After a whlakey peddler." fcm aald
nothing about the (hooting He aald
the man wlih Wllaon carried a ault
<■««•■ He aald (he team wa* going
alow and any one could have caught
George Stanley, undertaker at the
Mowbray undertaking- parlora. Intfjaed
aa to the condition In which be found
the dead trntn He eaM It waa imi»n-
alble to determine the alte and kind of
bullet  onleaa a "t
Mr. Morrle haa lived in Tulaa for
he ;>;<*■ alxteen yeare He In known
a every old realdenl aa a law abiding
nd    Christian    gentleman.      Several
try    before  It   had  a   railroad.  1
daya when the territory »
of all the criminate for 1
and the MIddle-West.    Jorneylng here
frequen
and would
m-i. and  talkv to  them    and* IT  and
make them aee the light which burned'
■o  fiercely  for him.     He never  aaked
wee and be i
He aaked no qneedone.
any euaplclona ha kaut. them I
himself. He only knew that they were
hla I.r..there and that they Blood I
deep need of the consolation which
obmea torihoae of pure heart, ife a
inacathed through all the border w
through all (ha ralda and rlota. through
all the Herce Teuda which r
territory for years and years, going
when he pleased, coming when h
pleased, driving hla old home or rt6
Ing him alike In tbe daylight and I
the darkneea The outtawa, the tralr
robbera and bank robbers, and mur
derers regarded him wITrT gObd-hu-
mored toleration hut with reaper! al-
waya beoauee (hey knew (het he wouk
have given up his lire In the cause o
his Master as cheerfully as any o
ihem In the detenae of their liberty.
"Ry hard work and economy Mr
Morrla had accumulated con«lderabte
property. ' He waa always a working
man. Though he had plenty ta keep
him from Mil In hla last years he refused to alt Idle." And with the perversity of age he refused to have the
people going around him feeling that
It waa a reflection on his. ahMlty to
take CUC Of hlmaelf Hla son! would
gladly have relieved him of the care
of the property and the management
of his affairs but he peralated In Maying In charga of hla own affair*.
"Mr. Morris never owed a man anything.    He wai careful of hla financial
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