The Topeka State Journal

WOULD HANG SISTER'S SLAYER.

Daisy Mann of Iola Brands Former Sweetheart a Murderer.

Oklahoma City, July 6.-Into Sheriff Garrison's office walked a beautiful fair haired girl. In her face was much determination. The eyes burned like fire. She was Miss Hazel Mann of Iola, Kan., sister of Mrs. Harry Pearson, who was murdered in Oklahoma City last September by Harry Parker, who, it is alleged, is Forest Cecil Mingle of Wichita, now on trial for the crime.

"Mr. Garrison," she said, "I hate the murderer of my sister so much that I myself would like to hang him. You may have the power to do so. Could it be arranged that I could be your deputy if I decided I wanted to pull the rope?"

The sheriff was surprised at the girl's statement but said he would look up the law on the question.

Failure marked the effort of the defense in a legal battle to bar the statements of the Iola, Kan., witnesses, that the prisoner who says he is Mingle is the Harry Parker, who lived in Iola and was an intimate friend of the family.

With his frayed hotel register on his knee, A. D. Mann of Iola, the aged father of the murdered woman turned the leaves finding the name, Harry Parker. He located the name seven times and each time pointed to Mingle and said: "There is the Harry Parker that wrote it, I never heard his name was Mingle."

Daisy Mann, sister of the slain woman and former sweetheart of Parker, alias Mingle, identified Mingle as the Parker she had known at Iola. She also recognized his handwriting under the testimony of the father and sister of the Mrs. Pearson.

Mingle gradually wilted as the aged father, time and again pointed his finger at Mingle. The man sank lower and lower in his chair.

Mrs. Mingle had maintained a cheerful air, but when Daisy Mann left the stand she took her husband's hand in silent sympathy.

B. O. Moss, a Wichita policeman and Harry Landis, ex-warden of the Kansas penitentiary were on the stand a short time to identify the prisoner Mingle, as Harry Parker.