Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 27, 1916
August 27, 1916
Negro Admits Murder.
SAPULPA, Okla., Aug. 26 (Special.)--Chester
Taylor, a negro, pleaded guilty here Saturday to the charge:
that he murdered his wife. Millie Taylor. with an ax in a tent
near Oilton. Taylor said that he committed the crime in order to
collect $150 life insurance. A. P. Crawford. Justice of the
peace committed Taylor to jail to await action in the district
court.
April 13, 1917
Taylor killed His Wife
Chester Taylor is a Creek county negro
tern who was convicted of murdering his Wife, Millie Taylor, on
the night of August 24, 1916. Taylor had forbidden his wife
going to a negro dance hall in Oilton; where they were living
according to evidence at the trial. She went anyway and when she
returned to their tent about midnight struck her: in the head
with the blunt side of a one-bladed ax. She died before morning.
Taylor confessed to the killing, but said
he struck the woman after she had attempted to stab him with a
knife.
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