VINITA WIFE SLAYER SENTENCED FOR LIFE

   
Guilty Plea Follows Capture After Long Freedom.

    VINITA, March 10.—Frank Holder, who was shot by his wife to death at Vinita September 28, 1914, pleaded guilty in the district court of Craig county at Vinita Friday and was sentenced by Judge A.C. Brewster to life imprisonment. Holder shot his wife as she was returning from a street carnival.
    Holder escaped and was captured a month ago at Kaw City, Kay county, where he was working on a railroad section gang, by Sheriff Sam Ridenour.
 

From The Oklahoma, 3/11/1922

Donated by: Emily Jordan

05-29-2007


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