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Mollie Foxwater Killed Husbands Who Tried to Obtain Her Secret.
Guthrie, Oklahoma, Sept 11 1902
An
Osage Indian woman named Foxwater
was arrestod nt Tulsa a few days ago
mi tho charge of ' having murdered
four whlto men who had been hor bus
bands within tho past ton years. The
bleached bones of threo of the men
wero lately found by a prospecting
party nt least, they wero supposed to
liavo been the bones of the white men
nnd later tho woman confessed that
they were. She confessed that she
killed these men because they tried to
wring from her the secret of n lost
gold mine, the whereabouts of which
lio says she has knowledge.
She refused to tell them, nnd they
went In search of It, ' and with tho
knowledge they had from time to time
picked up from her, wero likely to lo
cate It. Then, she said, sho was com
pelled to kill them, as sho would anyone
else who would teek to carry nway the
gold of bcr forefathers.
A warrant wns sworn out for tho nr
rest of the woman, nnd sho wns placed
In Jnll at. Tulsa. Slip then gave out
the following confession:
'When my father died ho told uiu a
secret nbout a mine supposed to bo
lost. This mine ho took from n party
of Spaniards whom he killed. Ho told
me' how to find tlic mlno. I have al
ways lived off tho gold In this mine,
nnd I don't care who knows it I am
sure that no ono will ever find It.
It wns near the Grand river bills
that Molllo Foxwater always lived and
she often mnde long trips into the hills
alone at night Her husbands used
to come into Tulsa many times and
'tell the Inhabitants about thoir wife
bring nway on a visit to her lost mine.
She owns a lino stone house and had
a number of servants to wait upon her.
She dressed well and always went
hcnvlly armed until she was arrested.
more
the pdf
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028140/1902-09-11/ed-1/seq-3.pdf
Mollie Foxwater Killed Husbands Who Tried to Obtain Her Secret.
Guthrie, Oklahoma, Sept 11 1902
An
Osage Indian woman named Foxwater
was arrestod nt Tulsa a few days ago
mi tho charge of ' having murdered
four whlto men who had been hor bus
bands within tho past ton years. The
bleached bones of threo of the men
wero lately found by a prospecting
party nt least, they wero supposed to
liavo been the bones of the white men
nnd later tho woman confessed that
they were. She confessed that she
killed these men because they tried to
wring from her the secret of n lost
gold mine, the whereabouts of which
lio says she has knowledge.
She refused to tell them, nnd they
went In search of It, ' and with tho
knowledge they had from time to time
picked up from her, wero likely to lo
cate It. Then, she said, sho was com
pelled to kill them, as sho would anyone
else who would teek to carry nway the
gold of bcr forefathers.
A warrant wns sworn out for tho nr
rest of the woman, nnd sho wns placed
In Jnll at. Tulsa. Slip then gave out
the following confession:
'When my father died ho told uiu a
secret nbout a mine supposed to bo
lost. This mine ho took from n party
of Spaniards whom he killed. Ho told
me' how to find tlic mlno. I have al
ways lived off tho gold In this mine,
nnd I don't care who knows it I am
sure that no ono will ever find It.
It wns near the Grand river bills
that Molllo Foxwater always lived and
she often mnde long trips into the hills
alone at night Her husbands used
to come into Tulsa many times and
'tell the Inhabitants about thoir wife
bring nway on a visit to her lost mine.
She owns a lino stone house and had
a number of servants to wait upon her.
She dressed well and always went
hcnvlly armed until she was arrested.
more
the pdf
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028140/1902-09-11/ed-1/seq-3.pdf
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