The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-05-31
INDIAN WOMAN
DEFEATS POSSE
EXPOSED TO RAIN OF BULLETS
SHE SAVES LIVES OF OUTLAWS
STORY OF FIGHT.

Muskogee, Okla, May 30.-A slender
Cherokee woman, with eyes as black
as midnight, and of dauntless courage,
won the battle for her husband, Pony
Starr. and Joe Davis, when a mob Of
twenty masked men attacked her in
their little home, quarter of a mile
from POrum. # was she who stood on
the front porch, the target for the fret
snots. She carried ammunition for
her husband and Davis, and, when the
ammunition gave out, called out to
the two men fighting against great
odds for their lives. that the ammuni-
tion was out and that they must make
a dash for it,
She it was who crossed the yard
from the house to the barn in a rain OF
bullets, caught and saddled TWO horses
While the barn was riddled with balls,
and led them out to the front gate for
the men TO mount After masked
member of the mob had fired four
shots from his siX-shooter, missing her
every time, and being close he threw
his gun at her, she grabbed the gun
and fired the remaining two shots at
him when he fled. An eyewitness
watching the battle from a distance de-
clared that it was the two shots that
killed one of the men as he saw him
fall
As a testimonial of her almost IN
canny escape from death, Mrs. Starr
has five bullet holes in the dress she
wore during the fight, and three more
in her apron. And yet she escaped
without a scratch. II was Mrs Starr,
who. sitting on the front porch of her
home, first saw the mob approaching
and cried out a warning 10 her hus-
band, Joe Davis and two other men.
Story of the Fight.
Two men dead, three known wound
ed in serious condition and two or
three others wounded and reported
carried away by their friends, is the
result of pitched battle, between
masked citizens of Forum. Okla. and
members of the Davis gang, fought on
the edge of the town of Porum, twen-
ty-tive miles southeast of here this
morning. The fight was participated
in by perhaps twenty-five men. All of
the citizens We're disguised in some
manner and made an attack upon the
alleged outlaws as they were loading
some cattle from the stock pens OF
Porum.
The fieht lasted for fifteen minutes,
and the men, running for a quarter
of mile from the stock pens to the
home OF Pony Starr, kept up a run
ming fire. Riding towards the cattle
pens, where it is claimed Pony Starr
and his friends were loading cattle I
stolen from Cliff Hester, the masked |
men formed a long line. Some one
said to be a member of Starr's crowd, f.
fired a single shot. George Maxwell .
a deputy constable fell from his horse .
and his mask fell from his face. An .
other shot was fired and Maxwells .
horse fell.
Following this the fight opened and .
no less than one hundred and fifty
shots We're fired. Maxwell was in
,tantly killed. Jesse Maxwell, his
)rother fell, shot through the should
'r. The citizens were mounted on
lorses that reared and snorted and
he cattlemen We're on foot S,arr's
'rowd was driven backward to the
starr home and the house was fired
lpon.
When the fire became too warm,
starr and Joe Davis fled taking two
nen with them who are believed to
ave been wounded. The citizens then
'ared for their wounded. A special
rain was run to Porum from Musko-
zee this afternoon with physicians and
raned nurses. and the wounded
brought in here tonight. When the
heriff reached Porum a. posse was
ormed which is now trailing Pony
Starr.
The fight is the result of a feud or