Original print Nov. 15, 1930 Tom D. MCKNOWN, national congressman from this district, sat on the bench in the Seventh district court when a jury found Frank EDWARDS guilty of murder...sheriff to carry out the death sentence on Oct. 20, 1911 in Seminole County.... Frank EDWARDS, now a free man, could testify to that effect if is where abouts were known.....scaffold had been built at Wewoka....people had congregated. EDWARDS had been returned ....from McAlester. The rope was ready...black cap, but no man ever wore it....at the last moment....Governor Lee CRUCE commuted the sentence...to serve a life term. Edwards had killed a man, William B. GRAY.....shot the man with a shotgun..a pistol....and a rifle and with a gun the name of which is unknown...He attempted suicide in Pontotoc County jail...drinking...disinfectant and eating the heads from a box of matches. R. H. CHASE was clerk of the court... The murderer and the murdered man had been traveling around the country together...three of the four days after the killing...EDWARDS drove around the country with the body...in the wagon in which GRAY was the owner. ...tried to borrow a shovel...heat of August...threw the body out.... The body was discovered by a farmer..... The defense offered no material testimony except a plea of insanity and attempted to prove himself mentally unbalanced....readiness to carry out the jury's verdict when word was received that Governor CRUCE had commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. He now is a free man. [This one was just too good. All the mentioned names can be found above.] Vickie Neill Taylor flip@okplus.com