CASES

OKLAHOMA; TWO CREEK WOMEN HANGED Indian returns to his Cabin and his Wife and Daughter Dead OKMULGEE I. T. June 14— (Special)

Ose-Yarhola, a Creek Indian- returned home to his cabin yesterday after an absence since Sunday He found n!s wife and daughter hanging dead to the rafter of the cabin The husband and father is suspected of the crime The cabin is located twenty miles from here near Okfuske Coffin were secured here and an investigation began -​

MUSKOGEE I T  June 14— (Special)

A call made on the marshal’s office here this morning to send a force of deputies to Okfuske to the Creek nation where a woman and girl had been hanged. No particulars of the hanging were given. Officers were sent at once. Okfuske is located in a settlement of full-blooded Creek Indians on the south bank of the Deep fork of the Canadian River and the wildest part of the Creek nation, and it will be several days before authentic information can be received.-

Kansas City Journal • Page 8 Sunday, June 15, 1902

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AWFUL CRIME ENACTED Near Okfuskee I T the Wife and Daughter of an Indian was Hanged to Their Cabin Okmulgee I T June 16 — A posse of United States marshals have arrested William Bear and George Jacobs, two full-blood Indians charged with the killing of the wife and daughter of Bear near Okfuskee The killing is said to have grown out of the refusal of Mrs. Bear to deed away some land. The women were found dead hanging in their cabin.

Union City, Oklahoma • Thu, Jun 19, 1902Page 2 Union City Advocate

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* I have created a FindAGrave for the wife because I don't want her forgotten. I will also make one for the niece. 

Unknown Unknown Bear (unknown-1902) - Find a Grave Memorial 

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* Names Mentioned: Nekose Bill (William Bear), Uknown Scott Bear (female), Unknown Niece/daughter, Ose-Yarhola, George Jacobs, 

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Oklahoma, MURDERED BY AN INDIAN

An Oklahoma Woman Cruelly Slain by a Seminole

Wichita, Kan., Jan. 5. – Mrs. Julia Leard, a white woman was murdered by a Seminole Indian yesterday evening four miles east of Maud, Oklahoma Territory. The crime was committed in the presence of the woman’s children. Early in the afternoon Mrs. Leard had frightened the Indian away, threatening him with a rifle. Later she stepped out of doors carrying her baby, and the Indian stole into the house, securing the rifle and attempted to shoot her, but the cartridge failed to explode. The Seminole then attacked her with the butt of the gun, clubbed her to death and ravished her body. He hurled the baby into the house through the open door. Several Indians have been arrested, but the murdered woman’s 8 year-old-daughter, the oldest of her family has been unable to identify any of them as the murderer. There is great excitement in the vicinity.
(Topeka Weekly Capital, January 7, 1898, page 3) Submitted by Peggy Thompson

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Huston

A special from Houston, Fla., says Albert Tillis, aged 12, killed  Annie Avant, aged 9, Monday afternoon as they were returning from school. The boy knocked the girl in the head with ' a light wood knot, dragged her body 'into the woods, and partly covered it with leaves.

' There were Vindications that a crime other than murder had been attempted. It seems that Tillis and Mrs. Avant, who is a widow, had quarreled, and Tillis had ordered his son not to allow the little girl to walk with him from school anymore, even if he had to kill her. When the children left school, the boy told Annie not to walk with him -The little girl came on, however, and then, in obedience to his father's commands,-.The boy picked up a light-wood knot and killed the child. The Tillis and Went fam-lies are well-to-do.