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Kansas City Massacre — Part 32

138 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jul 3, 1916 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 138 pages OCR'd
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a , eed cada see AL ' i an 5 ‘ ro ' ! « * + ‘ t eT 4 wie; ae orégon Street,’ See, Chickasha, fa immediately after the bank robbery at Fort Scott, Kansas, end. tnt’ ‘a.:in-- Davis, Clark and Sawyer were convicted at Fort Scott and "sentenced. to* the Kansas State Penitentiary pursuant to their arrest and identifi” : ‘of scratch vopees whic he” stated he found ‘dn! ‘possession ‘ot Jim Clerk; 7 Ed Davis and Bob Sawyer, He believés the paper was taken from the; possession of Sawyer, « Evidently the plan is that ofa residence “an o ‘underneath the same is written the words; *Pawhuska,'i1th Stree Pruden Avenue, Louis Stivers ,: ‘Attorney. ae Tndien Agency.” ‘Phia pl ‘ was copied by Sheriff Butnér on a piece of his om’ paper and. ‘the : 7 ‘whereabouts of the original is not known. Whether or not it woulda bd ,. Bignificant. in thie investigation is problematical, It may refer ti vn a place intended by Sawyer, Clark md Davis ‘to be ‘Sobbed ,.-Howe ‘ Ar. Butner ‘deli eved . that Stivers, ‘the ‘Attorney at. the: Indian’ “Agency -might be a close friend of Bob Sawyer, a known dank. Topbery, ‘who | ‘is -of Indian nationality,. and he, therefore, ‘pelieved-if possible that ae Red ‘Stivers Bight be. in. the business pf. Pacelying. stolen. securities: from ; “the .Taripus dank: robbers. st se ws 7 Nir, putner’ also “founa tn ‘the’ possessié n of Davis’ a foal map. of Fansaa‘ “» and Oklahoma, showing road marks added in pencil ‘gndiceting a route ‘from Ft. Scott, Kansas, to Pawhuska, Oklahoma, by kay. of Seden, Kansa: *, This map ie being preserved in the Kansas city file. ores eRe, On the map seized by ire * putner was also found a peveil note on one’ nae poghte corner showing the name of Mrs, Strauzghton, Madison, Kansas. It is Pe evident that lirs. Straughton may be a friend of Davis, and for this | 7 i reason investisation will be made at Madison, when an Agent is in ee j that vicinity. . _ i f No federal process ‘is outstanding for Davis in the ‘instant case at ; present. However, he is an escape fron. a lite sentence both in the . ro eee Ce pla hee ~ at LJ + ae i es 4
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