Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — KILLS HER FOUR HUSBANDS, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KILLS HER FOUR HUSBANDS,

Because They Sought to Learn Her Secret of a Rich Gold Mine. Because her husbands sought to coerce her into revealing the secret of a gold mine which she possessed Mollie Fox-

water, nu Osage Indian woman of Oklahoma, is now in jail charged with the murder of the four men to whom iu succession she stood in the relationship of wife. She admits the killing in each case, hut says that its her husbands threatened her life in case she did not rove il

the location of the mine she was justified in doing away with them. Mollie Foxwater is uot an ugly, coarsefeatured woman like many of the halfbreed squaws of hut possesses many of the refining qualities of a white woman. Khe has been well educated mid has traveled much. Six* lived in a fins? stone house near the Grand river hills, in the Cherokee nation, with a retinue of servants to wait upon her. She lived well and dressed in fushion, while her home contained all the modern apixiintments of a pretentious house. The fact that she was credited with possessing the knowledge of a rich gold mine led to her having many suitors. Mollie said that her father when dying had revealed to her the secret of the nrine, enjoining her to maintain the secret. Since his death she lias lived on the gold which she carried away from it from time to time. She said she treated her husbands well until they demanded a knowledge of her secret ami then, owing to their threatening her life, in case sire refused to share her knowledge with them, she killed them. A life-size statue to the Hungarian patriot, I-ouis Kossuth, was unveiled In Cleveland, Ohio, in the preseuce of 50,000 people. The statue stunds on a pedestal and Is about twenty feet high. The figure of Kossuth was the work of a Hungarian sculptor, Andrew Toth of I)obreazln, Hungary. Arthur Huuter nnd Bertha Gorman of Hartvllle, Mo., nged 17 and 15 respectively, eloped to Vinits, I. T., where they were married. The youth eloper* have returned home and received parental forgiveness.

MOLLIE FOXWATER