York, John

April 19, Mrs. Daisy Medley, 67 year old Picher Oklahoma woman was found suffering from severe wounds about the head in her rooming house on fourth Street. Two days later she was dead. Tuesday, Police Chief Gene Crockett, policemen, Paul Murdock and Art Bray arrested John York, in the Whiteway Bar, about 10 o'clock a.m. Before noon he had been taken to the county jail and charged with murder. Two o'clock that morning, Mildred Conrad ex-wife, of the accused was taken into custody and held without charge as a material witness. Thirty-seven year old York, who has a long string of arrests and convictions, in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, submitted to arrest quietly. According to reports, he has served time in the pen at McAlester and at Leavenworth Kansas, and about four months ago was released from the prison at Jefferson City Missouri, where he served a term for the burglarizing of a Missouri liquor store. He was reported to have been living recently in a cabin on the Neosho River near Chetopa Kansas. A former miner he had been at one time or another a resident of both Commerce Oklahoma and Picher. Evidently robbery was the motive when the entry was made into the aged woman's room. A pistol and eight dollars in cash was reported taken. The Picher woman's plight was discovered when she attracted the attention of her son, Kendrick Medley who lived next door. She died two days later, her death attributed to a skull fracture. Picher police are to be commended on the ceaseless effort put in on the investigation and the rapid work which led to the arrests.