Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1902 — KILLS HER FOUR HUSBANDS, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KILLS HER FOUR HUSBANDS,

Bccanse 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 Mollle Fox-

wafer, an Osage Indian woman of Oklahoma, is now in jail ,charged with the murder of the four men to whom in succession she stood in the relationship of wife. She admits the killing In each case, but says that as her husbands threatened her life in case she did not reveal

the location of the mine she xvaa justified In doing away with them. Mollie Foxwater ia not an ugly, coarsefeatured woman like many of the halfbreed equaws of Oklahoma, but possesses many of the refining qualities of a white woman. She has been well educated and haa traveled much. She lived In a fine •tone 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 fashion, while home contained all the modern appointments 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. Mollis said that her father when dying had revealed to her the secret of the mine, enjoining her to maintain the secret. Since hie death she has 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 and then, owing to their threatening her life, in case she refused to share her knowledge with them, ahe killed them. A life-size stntue to the Hungarian patriot, Louis Kossuth, was unveiled In Cleveland, Ohio, In the presence of 50,000 people. The statue stands on a pedestal and la about twenty feet high. The figure of Kossuth was the work of a Hungarian sculptor, Andrew Toth of Debreasln, Hungary. Arthur Hunter andi Bertha Gorman of Hartrille, Mo., aged 17 and 15 respectively, eloped to Vlnlta, L T., where they were married. The yosth elopers have returned home end Mcelved parental for-

MOLLIE FOXWATER