Nutt Secures Bail in Atoka Case
Judge Rainey of Atoka presided as Bill Nutt secured bail in the ongoing case.
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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
1
Judge Rainey of Atoka presided as Bill Nutt secured bail in the ongoing case.
Big Nutt, with deputies and attorneys, sought a habeas corpus bond in Atoka before Judge Robert M. Rainey. The judge granted Nutt a $12,000 bond and he returned to town triumphant, greeted by cheering supporters on Main Street.
The article reports Will Hendrix, an Indian from Pontotoc county, located after escaping Paris jail. Henry Lobo was shot by Hendrix when Lobo approached Hendrix’s farm gate, with a posse forming in Stratford to pursue the fugitive. The piece notes Hendrix is under a life sentence with no appeal, and mentions a local infant death by brain congestion.
George Johnson, white, who killed farmer John W Moore near Platte City on June 20, was lynched early today after being brought from Kansas City for trial. Two men abducted him from the jail, overpowering the sheriff, and a mob hanged him from a tree opposite the jail before dawn.
In Guthrie Oklahoma Governor Haskell hears George Alderman of Kay County seek a full pardon after a four year term for theft of two hogs. The Board of Pardons defers, with a later public hearing and a renewed request to release Alderman from prison.
The Philadelphia Mint today released the new Lincoln pennies to honor the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Designer Victor D. Brenner, a 27 year old Russian immigrant, modeled the portrait from a photograph in Charles Eliot Norton's possession, depicting Lincoln with a relaxed expression as he speaks to children.
The Ada context notes the remaining original Ada male eligibles becoming benedicts as Timberlake marries tomorrow, leaving the writer unmarried and seen as incorrigible and unmarriageable in a nostalgic reminiscence of the Ada era.
Tulsa August 3 Labor leader Charles Daugherty urged state action against capital dominance and praised worker power. The Oklahoma state council of carpenters and joiners organized with officers led by George Walker and invited the convention to meet in Enid next year.
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