Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-05
BILLY MAYFIELD
SHOT TO DEATH
Notorious Police Character
Loses in Gun Battle With
Peace Officers.
WAS FACING MURDER CHARGE
Deputy Sheriff Wolf Kills
When Outlaw Fires With
Automatic Revolver.

Billy Mayfield. notorious as a po-
pital at 9:40 last night, where he had
been taken after being shot thru the
abdomen by Deputy Sheriff Frank
Wolfe in a gun battle with officers on
the porch of a roadhouse conducted
by Mabel Brooks, a mile north and a
mile east of the fairgrounds. The
shooting took place about 1880 o'clock
when Wolfe, accompanied by Sheriff
Bill Mccullough and Traffic Sergeant
Jim Pinkston, arrived to make an in
vestigation of an alleged murder that
had taken place in the vicinity of the
roadhouse.
According to. the story told by
Wolfe he had received telephone call
about o'clock from an unknown
party who reported to him that there
was a man dead in the road north of
the fairgrounds. He, the sheriff and
Pinkston, in an automobile. started
for the scene. After driving in th- vi
cinity of the fairgrounds for seNtral
minutes and finding no trace of a dead
body. they decided to go over and
search the roadhouse close by.
Mayficld Appears.
When they reached the roadhouse
they stopped the car and the three,
with Wolfe leading. Pinkston follow
ing and the sheriff bringing up the
rear, went up on the front porch. AS
Wolfe was about to reach the door
Mayfield appeared on the porch with
an automatic pistol in his hand.
Lineup there in the yard you
- or l kill every - one of YOU
he demanded of the officers, accord
ing to their description of the affai.
They made no move to comply with
his orders, whereupon he fired az
Wolfe, the bullet going between his
legs Before he could shoot again
the deputy shot the bullet striking
Mayfield few inches above the left
hip, penetrating the body.
He fell to the porch clutching his
gun and made another attempt to get
up but Pinkston ran up and covering
him. told his to drop the pistol and
he threw it from his hand. Mowbray's
ambulance was called and he was
rushed to the Tulsa hospital where
it was decided than an operation
might save his life, but he dided few
minutes later, after being removed
from the table.
Had Been I'm Fight.
After Maytleld was removed the OF
ficers made search of the house and
found two women and Il man who
gave his name as Bill Rogers. Rogers
was in a state of intoxication and was
bleeding from several wounds appar-
emily received in fight. The women
stated that the two men had come to
the house in an automobile only
short time ago but the car and the
driver that brought them had left.
They also stated that Mabel Brooks,
who conducted the house, had taken
i'll several days ago and had been
removed to a hospital.
Following the gun duel between tho
officers and Mayfield police arrested
a man in the neighborhood of the
fairgr runds. insensibly drunk, his
face covered with blood and abraslons.
He was taken to the station where all
he could tell was that some men had
beat him up with a pair of pliers.
His injuries were not considered SER
ious and he was booken on a charge
of drunkenness. He gave the name OF
Toney Dodson.
Wolfe's version of the affair was
that some parties passing along had
seen Dodson who had been the victim
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