Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-12
DEATH TOO GOOD FOR THEM
Capture of the Fiends lncarnate of the Indian 1erritory-Two Attempts at lynch
 ing Frustrated

Wagonor, I. T., Aug. 11.-With the ex- ception of one the gang of Indians who committed a series of diabolcal crimes since July 30 in the territory, were cap tured near Okomulgee last Thursday af- ter desperate fight and started for Fort Smith over the trail to avoid being lynched. News has reached here that a mob of citizens has gone across the line to intercept the Missouri Pacific train carrying the fiends and their captors for the pupose of dealing out summary jus tice. The gang, which began it's heinouS operations by murdering Deputy Marshal John Garrett at Okomulgee, and escap- ing to the hills of the Creek nation, was led by Rufus Buck, an Indian. His fol- lowers were Samuel Sampson Merona July, Bud Lucky, alias Lucky Davis, AL bert Stake and Levy Davis. The day af- ter murdering Garrett the gang met a white man and his daughter in a wagon. Covering them with their guns the h. dians took the girl from the wagon and each assaulted her within sight of her father.
 Their next victims were Ben Callahan and a negro boy whom the gang met on the road. They murdered the boy and beat Callahan so that they believed him to be dead, relieving them of money boots and saddles.
 At the country store of West & Nor burg, at Orkut, the murderers and rob bers held up the owners and took away everything they could carry Next in their path of crime they met two white women and a girl IA years old. All wers l repeatedly assaulted by the fiends, who added another murder to their list. The girls feet and hands were tied and the unfortunate creature was assaulted until life was extinct
 Ry this tirOa the pOnntrV in thp UioiO- ity of their crime had become aroused Federal and Indian posses, including the Creek Light Horse Guards, in command of Capt. Edward Harry, and Deputies Jesse Jones' M. D. Irwin, Samuel Hayes and other determined officers, started at first to capture or kill the murderers of Garrett, that being the first crime heard of Thursday afternoon the pursuers came up with the gang twelve miles from Okolmugee and divided, one half going to a place of ambush into which the other party drove the gang from the summit of hill A fight with rifles and revolvers followed, in which Captain Harry fell from his horse, a bullet graz ing his head, and three horses were killed. Five of the gang were captured>alive and the sixth, Lucky Davis, escaped.
 In the possession of the nlurderers was 1000 rounds of ammunition and a great quantity of stolen property. They were taken to Okomulgee where mob of cit izens bent on lynching them surrounded the officers, but the officers escaped with the prisoners to MuslSogee.
 Another nob with ropes and rifles, awaited their arrival, but again the of lficers cheated the mob of it's prey by get ting sufficient warning to land the gang in jail. This was last night and the town was kept in an uproar all night by attempts to lynch the Indians and the efforts of the business men to prevent mob violence. The mob was finally quiet ed long enough to allow of third escape of the posse and prisoners on a train for Fort Smith.