Petroleum, Politics, Passion
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Episode 401 tells the salacious story of a leading politician who shows up at a private hospital with a gunshot wound. He tells the doctor it was self-inflicted, but that turns out to be a cover story. Why the big lie? You guessed it: There’s a woman in the case, and what she has to say will blow your mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.6 | Ardmore, Oklahoma, November 22nd, 1920. |
| 0:14.8 | Jake L. Hayman, Republican National Committeeman from Oklahoma, |
| 0:20.1 | is in the Hardy Hospital, suffering from a pistol wound accidentally inflicted. |
| 0:24.6 | Mr. Heyman was in his room at the Randall Hotel last night about 8 o'clock, |
| 0:29.6 | and was engaged in cleaning and loading a 25 caliber automatic pistol. |
| 0:34.6 | He had the weapon against his body and was slipping the magazine in place when it was |
| 0:40.3 | discharged. The small steel bullet entered the body to the right of the center, passed through the upper |
| 0:47.8 | lobe of the liver, and lodged in the muscles of the back near the spinal column. The injured man, in company with Dr. Cowles, |
| 0:57.1 | walked to the Hardy Hospital two blocks away and reported that he had accidentally shot |
| 1:02.4 | himself and asked for surgical treatment. He was immediately placed on the operating table |
| 1:09.0 | and was administered an anesthetic. |
| 1:11.6 | Within one hour, the wound had been probed, the bullet was removed from the back, and Mr. |
| 1:18.6 | Heyman assigned to a room. The wound is painful, but unless complications arise, it will not be serious. |
| 1:26.6 | The anesthetic made the patient very sick through the |
| 1:29.5 | night, but he was resting better this morning. A telegram has been sent to Mrs. Heyman, informing her of the |
| 1:37.3 | accident and stating that the injury is not serious. Mrs. Hayman is at her home in Chicago where her children are in school. |
| 1:47.0 | Mr. Heyman spent the greater portion of the day yesterday with W.B. Nichols, former chief of police of Oklahoma City, |
| 1:54.0 | and Kelly Roach, a life insurance agent of that city. The men were planning to leave this morning for Texas, where Mr. |
| 2:02.4 | Heyman was going on business in connection with his railroad interests, and they were to double |
| 2:07.5 | back through here Wednesday evening and leave for Billings, Montana, where Mr. |
| 2:12.7 | Heyman has recently acquired some oil interests. Mr. Heyman frequently carries in his grip on long trips, |
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