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_THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1986 8 ‘Cotton Road’ Crime Plumbs|N0FUESON GUC, Fathoms of Human Passions) PTHOFIANTRATOR By FRANCES CORRY Tribune Special Correspondent Anadarka, Okla., Feb. 20.—Here, where waters of civilization is being enacted — a tragedy so intimately linked with the bleak life of the cotton share-cropper and ten- ant that hereabouts year-old daughter of the cotton farm ten- ant, Iddis Willis, took @ 12-gauge shotgun in her hands one night and killed her father as he lay sleeping. ‘That is the bare, ad: mitted fact, But the story un- ries deep down into human passions and conditions of life. The Willis family were tenant farmers in the rough, forsaken country of western Oklahoma near Eakly. ‘The grinding toil of one farm after anoth- er, five children to rear with only stark subsistence to hope for—all this stalked in the back- ground when Horace Smith was awakened one still gray morning be- fore dawn by a call outside the door of his gray shack beside the road. A woman and a young girl stood outside. Smith raised an oil lamp high, looked an unspoken question. ‘T’ve Lost My Man’ “It’s him,” the woman said briefly. Smith understood that something had happened to Willis. They set off across the half mile of stubble and broken ground to the Willis shack. “Something bad happen?” asked Smith, finally. “I reckon,” replied the woman. “Bad enough. I’ve lost my man.” Smith knew Willis had been sick, he thought of death, but he was not prepared for what he saw. “The girl, Emma, was sitting by the stove,” @ hastily summoned constable told it later. “She wasn’t crying, but only staring ahead. Willis lay in the bed. He had been*shot through the EMMA WILLIS right breast and that shotgun left a big hole. Is a Model Prisoner “I asked who had done it, and they told me that Emma had shot her father. Neighbors had come in by that time, so I told Emma to get her coat and hat, and we brought her and the gun back to Eakly. “She was the best prisoner I ever saw. She didn’t cry none, and didn’t say anything much, either, but she ditin’t make any fuss and do a lot of explaining. She's a hard case to un- derstand.” She is. Here is Miss Willis’ story, as told in the Caddo county jail to a reporter: “He'd beat me ever since I can re- member. He beat and cursed and never let us do anything we wanted to | do. He made us all work hard every | day . . . He would pretend to be so good when others were ‘round, but he ape be good to his own folks at all.” Mind Blank on Killing The fatal day, Emma had a date to boy. She and her father spatted about it. That night, when she finished shucking corn and feeding the live- stock, she did not go into the house for supper. After dark she sneaked into the house. The family was asleep. “I don’t know how long it was be- fore I went to sleep,” she relates. “Long time, I reck’n. After that it’s all kinda mixed up in my mind. I come to and I was lyin’ in the middle of the floor. “Ma was a-cryin’ and the kids, the little ones, was a-screamin’, I don’t know nothin’ of it except what ma told me I done. No, I didn’t cry any. That wouldn’t a-helped none.” The daughter flushes deeply as she intimates constant pressure from her father to engage in unnatural rela- tionship with him. She implies that this, rather than the spat over her “date,” goaded her into her desperate act. Mother Tells of Misery Mrs, Zona Willis, the girl’s mother, & raw-boned woman with wind- parched face, tells her version: “Emmy hadn’t orta done it, but Id- dis wuz mean to her. Emmy is a good girl. Hope they ain’t too hard on her. She ain’t never had an easy time of it. None of us has. “I always tried to raise my children right and learn them what was right and wrong. But ‘he’ never would let us do nothin’ but work hard. He’s been pestering Emmy ever since she was 11. He never gave her no peace after that. “I talked to Emmy. I told her it was wrong. I told her to keep away from him. He found out, and then he got worse and worse. H e beat me and Emmy both, and then he started in on the other kids.” Little Known by Neighbors Neighbors knew the Willises little, though they testified that Willis was hard-working and “kept as neat a farm as there is around here.” He had been ill for some time. 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He sits usually at @ bare wooden desk in a round hut, grassroofed, that forms the center of the establishment, dispensing justice to his subjects, who comprise all the inhabitants of this territory. He looks like a fat harlem trap drummer dressed in khaki, and he grins all the time. But where every other spot in Ma- kale is infested with flies, actually millions of them, there are none in Gugsa’s Ghebi. He gave the name of the insecticide with a toothy grin. That’s his entire knowledge of English. While 10,000 natives milled about in the market place this Monday Gugsa led a tour through his “pal- ace.” Proudly he showed the throne room, a huge oaken throne like a four pos- ter bed rising from a straw-covered floor in strange contrast. Aside from the throne, the bare edifice strongly resembled a barn. There are native soldiers with rifles everywhere, guarding the pal- ace, for the Negus now has put a:price of 200,000 Thalers, something more than $200,000 on the head of the fat little man who deserted him, Gas Fells Attendants At Delivery of Baby Woburn, Mass., Feb. 20.—(?)—Gas felled two nurses, partly overcame a third, and rendered the operating physician almost unconscious during the delivery of a baby in the operat- ing room of a Woburn hospital Wed- nesday night. A nurse flung open the doors of the operating room at the Choate Memo- rial hospital and staggered out to tell others that two nurses were uncon- scious on the floor inside and that Dr. Thomas F. Halpin was on the verge of collapse. The fresh blast of air from the open doors helped revive Dr. Halpin. Another doctor was summoned but Dr. Halpin completed the delivery be- fore he arrived. Physicians said neither mother nor child apparently suffered any lasting ill effects from the experience. 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Man Buried in Bin for Three Hours Rescued Quincy, Mas., Feb, 20.—(?)—Police and firemen rescued George Martel, 21, Quincy coal yard worker, after he had been buried up to his neck in a coke bin for almost three hours Thursday. Doctors said he apparent- ly had suffered a crushed arm and a broken leg. He was expected to sur- vive. MRS, CARTER RITES SET FOR SATURDAY Prominent Grant County Wom- an Will Be Buried in El- gin Cemetery Mrs. L. Pearl Carter, 47, former as- sistant postmistress at Elgin, N. who died here Wednesday, will be bur ied at Elgin following funeral services to be conducted Saturday at 2 p, m. in the Methodist church by Reverend Boyd of Flasher. The prominent Grant county woman, a resident of North Dakota for the last 27 years, succumbed to pneumonia at a local hospital after being exposed to the cold in a 12-hour automobile ride from Elgin. Mrs, Carter was born April 16, 1888, in Pierce county, Nebraska. She was graduated from the high school and the State Normal at Wayne, Neb., and moved to Elgin in 1908, She leaves her mother, Mrs. Bell, who lives with a brother, Paul, at El- gin and five other brothers and sis- ters, Orr, Harry and Adeline Bell, all of Elgin, and Mrs. V. E. Townsend and Guy Bell, both of Spearfish, 8. D. She was a member of the Methodist church, the Royal Neighbors lodge and the American Legion Auxiliary. She served as assistant postmaster at Elgin from 1922 to 1934 and later was a telephone operator there. Mem- bers of the Royal Neighbors lodge will act as pallbearers at the funeral. SWANSON IMPROVING Washington, Feb, 20.—(?)—Naval hospital officials said Thursday that Secretary Swanson, ill of pleurisy, had “a very good night.” “‘Just What the Doctor Ordered’- FOR MY FAMILY,” says ‘T. L.Woolhouse, Cranford, N. J. 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Marie, Mich., Feb. 20.—(?) —A mirror that a half dozen witnesses declare stuck to a metal table top where Jeffery Derosier, 38, tossed it as he died in a hospital here gave this town one of its most puzzling myster- jies in years Thursday. “You won't be able to pick it up,” were Derosier’s last words, the witness asserted. For 24 hours the mirror de- fied the efforts of Harvey Davenport, Deroster’s ward mate; Dr. E. J. Ma- loney, his physician; and hospital-at- tendants, to remove it from the table. At last Miss Adeline Knoff, a nurse, pried it up with an ice pick. Explanations ranged from a “dead man’s spell,” to theories of molecular m hi LC grated to the United States and to North Dakota in 1892, They lived on a farm at Richardton for some time before moving to Dickinson. 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