Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-10-14
ShERIFF'S VICTIM
PAYS CRIME TOLL


bullet from Sheriff Wildor's re-
'Clver which tore It's way into the
body Of Alva Taylor Thursday as he
STOOD erect and pulled the trigger OF
an automatic which he had taken from
II guhrd in the Creek county tail cut
| snort career Of desperation such as
the police officers OF the entire east
efn part OF the state have not had to
| oppose since h days OF the Kidd
sehB the Bell Starr outlaws and the
| Daltons
Ihe nerve and desperate chances
which dominated the fight in the
mile corridor Of the Creek county
jail Thursday which cost the life of
Iuylor and the serious injury of the
sheriff has been the same throughout
thc series OF events which has caused
posters without number to be issued
for the apprehension of Taylor. He
was known rs dangerous man. re-
scurceful, daring. cunning to that de-
gree which marks a master OF Grim
inal life, and with an oversupply of
nerve and ability to keep a clear head
IN the most trying corners" in which
ms career often placed him.
Though he had selected the place
or ms boyhood as the scenes for his
most desperate escapades, even that
OF his final fight with the law. he was
no stranger to the arm OF the law eX-
tending 10 the Pacific coast and on
one occasion was found by a Tulsa de-
tectiNo after he had made preparations
10 take passage on a vessel plying be-
tween Seattle and Tacoma and
South American port.
Looked for Liberty.
I'm get away for good some of
these days" he sad on one occasion
when the officer shll recaptured him
following n desperate escape from the
Tulsa county iul But the time he
locked forward to 1ever came, and
tie liberty he secured through eerv-
ing sentences of good time" and by
tnking desperate chances to escape
from bastilcs I'm which he was held
was only the liherty that found its
bounds in his identification by Off
GERS. or capture after the completion
% a new and desperate robbery.
II was this crime that had placed
Toylor behind the bars In the county
iail in his home town. Although
Frown as man who would kill Re
only murdered to rob or to escape
from the punishment brought on 10y
l ohbery
His first appearance on the bottcrs |
OF the Tulsa police departent was his I
bcld robbery Of the Grand thcater, |
crime which was a spectacular end as
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ccmed,, ~ tho cr,nd ~ 1ooS To,,ior
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t\tchded Ills f1cid
Taylor extended his field Of opera
tion after his escape, and evidently
intended 10 make It international, but /
was captured before he could depart