The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1919, Page 6

4 . y, TRIED AND CONVICTED OF MURDER; SENTENCED FOR Almost Unbelievable Story of Man “Found Guilty” of Mur- dering Wife and Baby Who Still Live. TARDY JUSTICE COMES TO BILL WILSON Oneonto, Ala. Have you ever served on a mur-; der jury? Have you ever held the life of-an} accused murderer in the hollow of your hand? i Have you ever found guilty of| premeditated murder a fellow human being? | Some day you may be called upon| to do this. ! And when you are, I beg of you that you will remember the case of | Bill Wilson. This is the testimony in his case} Suppose for the moment that you; are the jury. So weigh this evidence. | W. E. Wilson, better known as “Bill, Wilson, lived with his wife, Jennie, and three children. They were happy and contented. Then | another man entered the home and! stole into the wife’s heart. OTHER MAN H STEALS LOVE | The husband, later on, learned | that he had lost his wife’s affec- tions and that the other man had gained them. “[ thought of the children, the home, aud still loved her,” Wilson | testified. “So I took her away from there, thinking that distance might make a difference. But the other man followed. They met again, and often. Then I knew that there was nothing else to do. I did that.” Now the evidence goes show that Wilson and his two older child- ren moved to Onenoto, staying with his brother on a farm. He said nothing to neighbors about his wife and the baby. To him that was a closed chapter of life. He did, however, go to the county, seat and file suit for, divorce, alleg- | ing desertion. Thrée years after the divorce was granted him Wil- son married another woman. | FIND BONES | HALF BURIED Two boys were roving the woods | near Onenoto., They came upon two ; half-hidden skeletons, one that of an adult, the other of-a small). child. | Running to town the boys told of their discovery, and everybody flock- ed through the woods. { Hurriedly the old citizens went over the rollcall of missing persons. | i “Murdered!” they cried in unison; | “of course; if they hadn't been buried | in ‘the graveyard”. An dthen thgy remembered that Bill Wilson’s first wife hadn’t been| seen since the night in' 1909 when she and the baby disappeared and Bill took the two other children to his’ brother’s home. Suspicion widen- ed and. deepened. pb | Bill. Wilson’s honeymoon was inter- | rupted by his arrest on a charge- of wilful and premeditated murder. That | was three years after his first wife’s disappearance. £ | “She went away,” he said. “I} don’t know where. I am sure that { ton, fish, flour, fruit, ete., on hand: at} j e stly AS A NEW LIFE IN PRISON; INNOCENT “FOOD HANDLERS RUN WILD!” ‘ CHARGES ECONOMIST SPILLANE Who Points to Fact That: American Bread and | Beef Cost Less in Europe Than Here at Home pean countries that are drawing on u for food than are t ts in Amer there is bitter criti mn. To some pet sons it appears Ameri is being ‘penal- | ized unduly. ~ Much of the unrest in America is due to the high cost of food. Half of the pay of the wage-earner goes to fill the market basket for him- self and family. Food prices today are too high. We never had more beef, pork, mut-} yg 1 commodit oD long as t this season of the year and yet prices | are near the highest in history. aniiot: Bread, made of American flour, “is Bes Pot proddétion “beer cheaper in London than y York: So! duced until the cost of living is re-| is ‘beef shipped. from Chicago to Lon-! duced. It is the business of all people don cheaper than is Chicago beef that goes to the table of New Yorkers. The British government has regulat- ed retail p st: retailers have had to sell at a") were. recompensed by the goye ent. In’ America, since’ the food adminis- tration restrictions, which never were} and particularly of employers of labor ; to endeavor to reduce the cost of :vod- stuffs to a legitimate -level..¢ Until he makes it his {business to do so. the employer will be neglecting his duty and—in ~treuble-and unrest that “Then why didn’t you take other child?” he was asked. | “Because she said it wasn’t mine; that the other man was its. father.” IDENTIFY | SKELETONS. | The trial proceeded. The boys} told of finding of the skeletons, Doc- | tors said they were bones ofa wo-) man and_a baby. Folks who knew: said the inissing wife and child were} she went with her lover.” | the) of the heights indicated by the skele- | , tons. Bill Wilson said he hadn’t heard of his first wife and that child since that night. ‘ Folks insisted it was impossible for | a woman and baby to leave town without being seen. : The prosecutor closed the case with a brilliant plea for justice demanding | ¢T punishment in its most severe form for the murder of the wife and child. “We, the jury, find the defendant | left these d guilty of murder in the first degree,” and the judge sentenced Bill Wilson to the penitentiary for life. TAKEN TO PRISON CELL , Appeals. to higher courts failed to change the course of law, and Bill Wilson was thrust into prison stripes, - and alternated from convict camps. to life cell. That lasted 17 months. Then one day a relative of the “other man,” ‘missing too, got a let- ter from Jennie, the missing woman. Wilson’s sister heard about it, and finally located Jenny at Britland, Ind. The “murdered” woman hadn’t heard that Wilson was in prison for her “death.” She came back to Oneonto and the machinery of the: law re- versed itself, gradually and slowly, ending with the release from prison stripes and -cells of Bill Wil- son. | The law also wiped -the “mur- der stain” from his name, and thought to square accounts with him by hand- ing him a few paltry dollars. But. while bearing the false brand of Cain, Wilson's second wife turned against him: She too, believed that he was murderer, slayer of wife ahd baby. She dt ed hint. ‘That's the story of Bill Wilson, con- so rigid as those abroad.-have been y >} modified the handlers of food have) HUMPHREYS | run-wild. An evidence of this is furnished by the government report of WITCH “ HAZEL OINTMENT the average price of steak in 30 or ee ore cith Mhis sh while (COMPOUND) cents | For Piles or Hemorrhoids, | _| External or Internal, Blind or | Bleeding, Itching or Burning. j di One application brings relief. apart.. 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