Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma

The next day, she carried her 14-month-old daughter Lulu Belle to a train station in Custer City.

Then on July 28, 1905 in Weatherford, Bartell learned that James and the baby spent a night in the house of William Moore.

They were brought to this house by Moore's sister-in-law Fannie Norton, a resident of Clinton who also was known as Mrs. Ham, and reputed to be a sex worker.

Eyewitnesses reported that buggy entered a field near Deer Creek, and Norton came out alone approximately 45 minutes later.

[6] On August 31, 1905, James' remains were found near Deer Creek, about twenty miles east of Clinton.