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Show mwmm run Eleven Negroes Arrested in Indian Terri-1 tory for a Murder Tbat Wa j Never Coamiitted, j THE STORY OF INGRATITUDE. How a Ragged and Penniless Man Rewarded Re-warded the Charity and Liberality of a Samaritan. Arumouk, I. T., Aug. 15 The tlnd-ing tlnd-ing of the body of a man in a cave near this city la.-t week, the issuance of warrants war-rants for the arrest of cloven momocrs of a colored family named Franklin, charged w ith tho murder, and the sub-sequent sub-sequent arrest of J. D. Carter for conspiracy con-spiracy to murder and perjury, rum brought to light a remarkable case of ingratitude and a strange and liondish plot. Forty miles northwest of Ardmorn lives Hiisscl Franklin, colored, the patriarch of a large family of children and grandchildren. Their homo is on Wihl Horse lake, at the foot of the Arbucklo mountains. Here they have lived since they were brought from Mississippi by the Chickasaw Indians, In-dians, when they exchanged their valley val-ley homes for a place in the then unknown un-known west. The Franklins are industrious indus-trious and law-abiding, and have accumulated accu-mulated an independence, hut through a strange fatality their neighborhood has acquired an unsatory reputation. Mysterious rumors of itiurd.tr anil rapine ra-pine born there grew into fabulous monstrosities, mon-strosities, but when investigated always al-ways proved to be without foundation. Once a deputy marshal and bis wife .wero murdered in their vicinity, and it look a judicial investigation to honorably exculpate them. Their evil genius showed his head aaiii about a vear ago in the person of one Cornelius "Walker, . an outlawed negro, who stopped nt their home and asked for shelter. He was a si ranger, but. they look him in, and that night ollirer broke in. looking for Walker, who killed Jim Williams, one of thn posse, us ho entered tho door. Immediately afterward after-ward Deputy Marshal John Swain shot and killed Walker. The Franklins were iiinoconl. witnesses of the tragedy, but two of them. Cnsar and Hubert, were arrested for complicity In I he miirdcrof Williams, 'f hey wereenrried to Paris, Texas, tried and iiciiullleil. On the M reels of Pari old Kussell met J. D. Carter, ragged and penniless. His pitiable condition touched tho old man's heart, and ho took him ami his wife homo with him. They picked cotton, and, all hough wearing white skins, they ate at his table and enjoyed the hospitality generously extended. When tho spring ciiino hit gave Carter land to farm, but bofore the harveat the latter suffered a prosecution which would have caused him the loss of his crop had not Mussel mine in ami aid him its full value. I'nfortunatcly, about this time Carter and the young Franklins Frank-lins had a dispute over n horse. From . . , I:ilt....lta lins had a dispute over n nnrse. rrom the time of this unhappy dilliouliy Carter seemed to be controlled and animated by a vindictive, pa-sionale pa-sionale feeling of revenge. Me-ports Me-ports were soon in the air I that an unknown man had been murdered mur-dered bv the Franklin, and on the heels of the report Carter appeared before be-fore a commissioner at Aldmore.eharg-ing Aldmore.eharg-ing seven of the Franklins with the crime, slating that they had made confessions con-fessions to him. A warrant was issued, ami ho piloted the officers to a rule of ashes, pointing It out as the funeral Dvro ol the dead man. An exiimimi- tin ii revealed the fact that the ash pile was the remains of a lot of wood burned in making coal. Five weeks had hardly passed aw-at- when Carter was once inure before the commissioner, declaring de-claring he had found a corpse, and litis time implicating eleven of the Franklins. Deputy Marshal Sam A. Brown took the warrants, and with six assistants went to bring in the dead body aud the accused. The fust he found in an old cave, exposed to the public road, not morn than twenty yards away. This was a peculiar hiding hid-ing place, but the marshal was more nonpiilsetl when he found the body In the last stages of decay and dressed In a lieal littintr suit, w illi lhe coat and vest ripped open in the back. On one baud-be saw a while cotton glow; around the. shouldrr was a rope, attached at-tached to which was a handkerchief covering for the face of Ihe dead. Tim cost lime, in fact, was that of tho ravc. Then around the cave he saw wagon tracks. There were mark on the ground Indicating that a body had been hauled there, dragged from the wagoti to the cave and tumbled in. Dismission: hi force, 'he marshal questioned Carter cloM'ly. and satisfied himself that the man had put the body there himself, although he would not admit it. In the iiioaiitimrthoariiig what was going on, the franklins r-ime forward and ilcmanded an iutcliga tion. The trial wa held today. Carter was the u itticss in cliicf against thru;, but he wa overwhelmed by the evidence evi-dence of Marshal Brown, corroborated be three disinterested parties of . und repute in their community', as well bv the evidence, which the corpse itr!f furnished. The Franklins were 1-t off free and bbimelcM to return t" their mountain home. Carter is held in the Hutches of the law to answer to the charge of prrjurv. conspiracy to iitiir-fl'-r and grate robbery. Yesterday the ' grave from which the corpse taken j wan discovered. |