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| May, 1929 |
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| MAY ------ 2 ------ Mr. and Mrs. G. A. FELL, farmers near Cherokee, celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary. ------ Pete BLAIR, Eufala, charged with robbery with firearms, sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. ------ 3 ------ Charged with alleged fraudulent acts in connection with tax refund cases in Oklahoma county, in which the county lost $766,799.87, attorneys W. F. SMITH, Adelbert BROWN, and Gordon SLATER gave bonds in the amount of $5,000, as did M. E. DURHAM, manager of the Taxpayers association. Besides the indictment, the grand jury presented accusations against Walter BENSON, J. Will LAWS and George H. GIDDINGS Jr., justices of the peace, asking their removal from office. Accusations were also signed against H. E. DERRINGTON, road superintendent, R. D. HANSON, clerk of the consolidated school district No. 6, Fred JORGENSON, director of the board in school district No. 6, and Ed MOTLEY, constable. ------ 4 ------ Charles BECKER appointed police chief of Oklahoma City, to succeed Ben B MOORE resigned. ------ Arthur G. HEAD, insurance broker, killed, and Miss Emma BODURTHA, city hall stenographer, severely injured, when plane they were riding in crashed to the earth at Oklahoma City. ------ 5 ------ Robert GOODNOUGH, 20, and L. O. GUGHLER, 26, identified by their wives as two men slain by detectives during robbery of a Tulsa drug store. ------ 6 ------ Buck GARRETT, 58, former sheriff of Ardmore, died of paralysis. ------ 12 ------ John L. MCGEHEE, pioneer commissioner of Noble county, drowned near Red Rock. ------ M. S. COOTER, founder of the Ridenour-Baker wholesale mercantile establishment in Oklahoma City in 1901, coming to the city from Holden, MO., died. ------ Alvin P. GROUPE, 54, pensioned veteran Oklahoma City fireman, died in Oklahoma City. ------ 13 ------ Mrs. James WEBB, 16, McAlester, who mistakenly thought her husband dead and married Edgar V. WHITESIDE, takes a week after husband NO. 1 appears to decide the matter and choses to remain the wife of No. 2, meanwhile, WEBB has disappeared. ------ 14 ------ "Aunt Frank" MILLER, Purcell, celebrated her 100th birthday anniversary. Born in Fayette County, Ohio, she pioneered in North Dakota and came to Oklahoma in 1889. ------ 15 ------ Billie BARNHILL, 18, Paul W. DAVIDSON, 29, and Paul le Brun DAVIDSON, 5, drowned when their boat capsized at the city reservoir, Oklahoma City. ------ Ollie WILSON, 52, Oklahoma City, former labor leader and politician, died. He at one time was city commissioner of public works. ------ E. M. LEWIS, Sapulpa, undertaker, director of the chamber of commerce, and prominent Mason, died. ------ 16 ------ Tom KING, president of the American National Bank, Okmulgee, committed suicide by shooting himself. ------ 17 ------ Jerome HARRINGTON, former Watonga banker, died in Chicago on the way with his family to spend the summer in Europe. ------ Jack BREEDLOVE, former traffic officer, arrested at Tulsa, charged with throwing acid in the face of Mrs. Glen CONDON, wife of the director of public relations of the Skelly Oil Company. She said it was a case of unrequited love; that they had clothed and fed the man; that he had threatened to "make her so that she would scare little children". ------ 18 ------ George COYLE, 65, general superintendent and member of the board of directors of Prarie Pipeline Company, died at Tulsa. ------ Announced from Okmulgee that the defalcation of Tom KING, president of the American National Bank at Okmulgee who committed suicide May 16, would be "considerably in excess of $100,000." ------ 19 ------ Louis SCOTT, 19, killed in airplane crash at Pawhuska. ------ Maj. Josef H. NOYES, Oklahoma City killed in Airplane crash at Kankakee, Ill. ------ 20 ------ A distinguished service cross and citation awarded posthumously to Dick Bland BREEDING, second lieutenant of Company A, 167th Infantry, 42nd Division was awarded to his mother, Mrs. Eliza BREEDING of Holdenville, Charles L. ORR, a local attorney, represented the war department in presentation of the medal. ------ Rev. Frank BARRETT, 63, Lawton, presiding elder, Lawton district of Southern Methodist church, died. ------ 22 ------ D. B. BURNS of Bowie, Texas, elected manager of Chickasha chamber of commerce. ------ J. C. JACKSON, Ada, sentenced to life imprisonment on charge of killing his nephew, Millard FILLMORE, whose life insurance was taken out by Jackson and made out to Mrs. Jackson. ------ Mrs. S. W. MOSELEY, 82, mother of the first boy born in Oklahoma City, died. ------ 23 ------ Ervin KILL and Howard JEFFRIES, slayers of F. D. STALFORD, dentist at Walters, sentenced respectively to 25 and 35 years in prison. ------ 24 ------ Gang of five armed bandits hold up and rob Charles VOWELL, messenger for the American First National Bank, of $75,000, at 10 o'clock in the morning, shoot Vowell in the arm and make a clean get away. ------ Bernard MCCOMB, formerly of Oklahoma City, while landing a large fish at Galveston bay, fell in the water and drowned. ------ Charles H. FILSON, 75, pioneer of Guthrie, died. For 25 years national bank examiner, and in territorial days served as secretary of the school land commission and as clerk of the supreme court. ------ 25 ------ Ms. Sarah M. POLLARD, Pauls Valley, widow of a veteran of the civil war, gets 20 years belated back pension of $5,373.63 and $40 a month in the future. ------ James H. NORTHCUTT, 61, Texas peace officer, slayer of Eng Joe, cashier of Oklahoma City restaurant, found not guilty of murder by jury. ------ 26 ------ Miss Minnie RAYL, 55, arrested at Hutchinson, Kansas, and $19,207 in money identified as stolen from the American First National Bank's messenger in Oklahoma City May 24, found in her car. She was brought to Oklahoma and placed in jail incommuncado. ------ C. W. "Doc" THOMPSON and his foster son, Bob THOMPSON arrested by police in Oklahoma City as suspects in a bank robbery case of May 24. W. D. CRISS, cab driver who witnessed the robbery, identified "Doc" THOMPSON as the man who shot Charles H. VOWEL, the bank messenger was not certain as to the identity of Bob THOMPSON. ------ Clarence LEE, 22, sentenced to the penitentiary at McAlester for 25 years for highway robbery, to which he pleaded guilty. ----- 27 ----- N. A. MCLEAN, pioneer 89'er and first assessor of Canadian County, died at El Reno. ------ Mrs. Alberta FOUREYES, 44, daughter of a tribal chief of the Ponca Indians, wealthiest member of the tribe and land-owner in Kay County, died. ----- 28 ----- Jack ZORN, 19, Britton, sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for holdup. Noel MELTON, his companion, sentenced to 25 years. ------ 29 ------ W. K. HALE, serving term of life imprisonment on murder conviction, advises his lawyer to stop efforts for a new trial, as he is resigned to life term. ------ 30 ------ Dr. Clyde Elwood STOUT, 44, Beaver City, buried at Oklahoma City. ------ Jay THOMAS, one of the most versatile high school athletes in Oklahoma, died at Chickasha. ------ J. M. WORKMAN, 28, killed when steel flagpole he and five fellow workmen were attempting to erect, came in contact with a public service power line carrying 30,000 volts. Virgil STICE, 24, and Chris MABLE, 19, were believed fatally hurt. ------ 31 ------ Guy COOKE, 47, for seven years professional of Lakeside golf and country club, Oklahoma City, died suddenly at Tulsa. ------ Franklin Benjamin SHROYER, 72, pioneer 89'er died at Moore. ------ Frank SPRINGSTEAD, Bartlesville investment broker, sentenced to two years in state prison for hitting John BATTY with an automobile and killing him. |
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