Show DEFORMITY LEADS NEGRO TO PRISON Crooked Finger Fits Marks Left on Wall by byM M Murderer TEXAS MYSTERY Y IS SOLVED Felix Powell Io Held Hed for foi Murder lurI of or I Woman timid ami Four Children Nine I Months Ago ARO o. o Edna Tex Jul July 22 Hooked Hooked by tho lie deformity of his little finger In the lie meshes of a crime Felix Powell a negro little less eRS remarkable In hi characteristics than thyn tn Monk Gibson the enigma who has once been tried for rOl thu ho crime has been bound over ever to the grand jur jury to answer Ol to the he charge charKO of murdering Mrs F. F J J. J Conditt and four our of her hel live JIve small children t nf nr whom were wele assaulted S ept September 28 28 28 1905 From Front evidence due to the same me finger Inger print Monk Gibson Henry Howard Bethel Reed Heed Irene Ireno Powell and ind Augusta DIggs are aie held as All are 1 related lat cl except Gibson an and the tho DIggs woman who iho was vats Powell Powell's Powells Pow Pow- ell ells ell's s mistress She has made a confession confession confession confes confes- sion that corroborates the time chain of evidence Suspicion was first directed against Gibson a slender boy of or uncertain age perhaps IS 18 and and he lie was arrested h by rangers under tinder Captain McDonald after af nf- n- n tel ter Cl a long chase at a cost of 1 antI ind It was with ith difficulty that a lynchIng lynching lynch- lynch Ing ng was averted When hell Gibson was tried and n Il mistrial mis- mis trial resulted Captain McDonald decided decided de de- de- de that while Gibson knew of and was likely an accomplice the real murderer was at large lIe He at that thai time Ime had the lie blood bloody imprint of a hand haiti handcut cut from front a weatherboard of the lie Conditt Conditt Con- Con ditt home horne and he lie started to find a aland hand land to lit fit It lIe He arrested Powell II In th the e court room here during the preliminary n hearing officers attempted to o press Powells Powell's hand Into tho he marks malks left eft by hy a murderer but never but bu once ha has las the real imprint been duplicated He had declared his willingness to undergo the t test st but no one will claim that hat since the time lime when without warning he lie pressed the lie back bauk of his hand mud upon a camphor smoked paper has las anything like a good Impression been taken talen tl at T Test t. t Before the court he stood while of- of hers lers and law lawyers watched him as protesting he lie placed his hand upon he tho board l I Men n reached forward forwald to seize his ringers lingers but he drew ew w back Youre taking advantage antage of me mae he 10 cried Youre not treating me mea fairly airly a I rl s' s But all aJl we want Is the lie facts ex- ex Attorney J But I say y you are taking advantage advantage advantage advant advant- age of me exclaimed the lie prisoner You are and you OU have all along I. I lUg Ills lIngers fingers spread over tho ho marks So No o force was used an and the nt n-nt was abandoned In the lint Im- trint of that Impression of or the he theland land hand of I Felix Powell was offered By I measurement nt and md other methods ol of comparIson It fitted to the nicety of a 1 agnat's gnats gnat's he heel 1 Powell grinned lIe He held his hand before him for an Instant looking at athe atthe atthe the he accusing finger finler and ond then he lie covered cov- cov ered red It with the nn lIngers fingers of or the other othel hand land You dont don't mean to say that m nn hand is the lie only on one that will fit that marl exclaimed the lie prisoner Its It's the lie only one oie In the thu world that hat will vili lit fit fIt answered Attorney Vanden berg Felix Powell subsided He had explained In the course of that hat portion of his examination predl eating the experiment and the production pro pro- of the lie Imprints that the Joints of the little finger of or his right hand land had been stiffened by a U bom boni felon elon That It was deformed was isas evident The second joint nearest the lie tip hat had been left eft enlarged so that pressed against nn an plate till In mark nark of or the lie deformed knuckle knuckl stanch out plainly while only ouy the lie en end of or tIn till Inger shows StOl o of Finder Cl Print And about that hat Is the he evidence that is calculated to support sup port ort the lie theory which served to substantiate sub sub- the lie warrant sworn against hIm ilm by tho ho famous captain of the anger langer force It is the story tory of the he left lefton lefton on oil the bare baro walls of the house II it which the lie murder was sas committed that as the murderer lifted the till bod holl of a n. 4 year old old ear bo boy from roam the t ti tiit Itch It through an opening he lie forward orward As he inclined his bod he le braced himself with the tho back hack o oils o. o his ils han hand upon the lie wall uil that lint extended at it rl rIght right angles hl angles beyond Marked 1 in the lie gore of or the thit that hat lone ono bit of evidence existed hem he lime officers cers finally went to work york the Iho case The board was sawed fron ron the he house but hut none nunc too loo soon oon after at was attracted Since then hen I 1 Ihas has as developed d that other finger markt markl but hut with a knife the spot upon which the they were once to be seem eel have lave been heen planed plane a away The rhe facts nets of their existence however however how ever still stand In iii the he memory ol or those who saw sa them Item It was as II 11 he the man who had committed the murder murder mur mur- der tier had hUll but three lIngers fingers Again lit deformIty of the lie little linger finger of Pow Poi Powell's Powells ells ell's hand Is made malle the object of SU sus sus- I I Tells His s During the preliminary hearing Augusta Au Au- irusta usla DI DIggs gs tat ut at in court listening but She never spoke aloud but jut her big eyes creg turned from face fac U It face faco as different ones took tool the tho contel dramatic She heard hoard the of the stage recitals of various arlous witnesses The elc dc ments of evidence as tho they were gath gath- gathered gathered ered fell upon her lice ears cars and nil all this lime hue she site appeared as If In contemplation lion ion of some faraway a scene After Arter the thc close of tho he hearing sh she nt ai-nt for or Sheriff EggI Egg I want timit to tell she lio explained ant summoned to hear her hera hera heras were wera a she sho offered her explanation a as writ written ton word It was Word ord after artel she had been dul duly warned Tin Thc after aUer Slew clew eler that existed led In iii a n. print hand and has ha suggestion of a newspaper the tho served to 0 bring the actual facts s sur- sur r. r the tho most atrocious and fliS R- R t ever committed In erlo s murder explanation This um- um to lo an Texas re lon will ill be madu made public only a after ft thoroughly sifted by bJ a u It has been grand Jur Jury |