The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-20

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 @URNER TURNBULL is dead at
 0 his home east of Caddo. in the
 Choctaw Nation. and the man who made his Winchester the law and scattered graves of horse thieves all along the valleys of the Blue and Boggy rivers in what he believed to be righteous war of extermination, went to his final rest ar honored man in his community.
 For many years. dating back into the early 7Vs, the name of Turnbull was in terwoven with the history of the Choc- taw Nation, a terror to outlaws and thieves who claimed the country as their own.
 There were three of the Turnbuli brothers-Turner, Simon and Daniel-two of whom were killed by outlaws.
 They had always lived near Caddo, and the bones of many outlaws ana cat tle thieves are lying in shallow graves between the Blue and Boggy rivers, un- marked and unknown, sent to the grave by these brothers and their sworn con federates, who, in the days of the Indian courts. generally took the. law into their own hands
 They hated thieves above all criminals and made "short shrift'' of them when they got a chance with their Winches- ters.
 One time bunch of horse thieves nad been captured near where the postoHice of Blue is now located.
 Three of them, all Choctaw Indians, were killed on the spot. The otner' mere hoy. was tied to tree and whipped into insensibility.
 tIa wears the marks of this terrible
 vb,nnine to this day He became min ister and is now pastor of church near Ardmore.
 Frank Long was member of the Turn hull Rangers His wife was Chocta"' and he frequently took her with him on long trips through the Choctaw Nation, she acting as interpreter while he traded with the Indians. Two negroes robbed Longs house and one day they came back to Long ana there the Turnbulls found them. They took the two negroes out and hanged them.
 few days later a party Of negroes oryanized and went to Longs place. lie saw them coming and slipped away mo- +ia.a the Turnbulls, and they returned, surprising the negroes. running fight ensued, in which sam Rovd was killed at Buffalo Hill and the rest chased to Buffalo Springs and the entire bunch killed. For this they were indicted by Judge Parker's court at Ft. Smith, and Tor l5 years Turner Turnbull was a fugitive He was finally captured and acquitted of the charge. arrest they escaped with the shackles on at Atoka. Frank Long was never recap tured. but later was killed by Tandy Folsom. a deputy marshal. While Turnbull was in hiding a Choc- taw Indian took a horse from Harris Cairns at Caddo.
 Turnbull and another man trailed this Inoan into the mountains on the old Antlers road, before the town of Ant lers was built, and overlook and killed him.
 This was one of their serious mlstaKes for 1t developed later that the Choctaw had not taken the horse as theft put
 was eloping with an Indian girl and only took the horse to get away rom her people ard return 1t. The girl was with him on the horse when he was killed. She was sent pacK to her home.
 ,,1Ir nd In the early sos the Turnpuils ana three other men started after gang or ] thieves that had stolen several horsss in what was then Atoka county A fight came on and two of the out laws were killed, but in that nght Dan iel Turnbull was shot through the lungs A he lav on the ground he swore that ,o horse thief should have the honor n, killing him. and, drawing his six shooter. he put a bullet through his