CRIME: Wisdom & Lynchers

A mob of several hundred Kansans raced from Wichita into Oklahoma one day last week looking for a cowhand named Jack Wisdom. Two weeks before Jack Wisdom disappeared from Wichita with Mrs. Harry Pritchard and her husband, a storekeeper who had threatened to sue Wisdom for passing a worthless check. The Pritchards did not return. The body of a cowboy friend of Wisdom's was discovered soon after in a well on the ranch where Wisdom had worked.

Last week Wisdom was found asleep in a farmhouse in the foothills of the Oklahoma...

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