Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-27
SELF-DEFENSE is CLAIME[
Grocer Declares Contractor
Reached for Pistol in
Desk Drawer.
|. v. PARK ALSO IS HELD
Will BE Charged With Ccm-
plicity; Foreman Is
Eyewitness

w w Fuller, prominent paving
contractor and manager OF the Ma
I tional Block company was shot In
his office ut the plant. Gi5 East
j Fourth. yesterday afternoon about I
O'Clock. and his death occurred at
tho Oklahoma hospital short time
later in the afternoon T. @. PnA,
manager OF the Exchange grocery
/ 10 East First, said to have fired the
fatal shot. will be charged with mur-
der. and his brother. l.. ", Park.
Will he charged with completely, in
information TO be filed today. ac-
cording TO statements given out at
the office OF County Attorney George
Reeves last night Both we're placed
under arrest by the police. who ar
rived at the scehe - the fifth fatal
SHOOTING since Saturday. within a
few minutes OF the firing OF the
shot
The trouble In said TO have oc-
CURED oyer the payment OF n check
held against Fuller by r. @. Park
The formers account was over
drawn, and when he was asked TO
make good heNmount. which he IL
said to have promised TO do. n quar-
rel started In the yard OF the plant.
which ended in the office. after the
Froceryman had ,left and returned
with u gun. according TO the details
OF the shooting gathered by the po-
lice.
Yard Foreman Witness.
irwin Peterson, yard foreman al
the plant. was q witness OF the af-
fair, and he himself narrowly es.
capped being shot. Accosaing 10 his
story Of the affair the two Parks
came TO the plant about 1850 and
asked Mr.. Fuller to make good
check. The latter told them that he
would have sufficient funds at the
bank by o'clock TO meet the pay
ment, but this did not satisfy the
rrocerymen. and they began ours
ing Fuller's reply was that they
need not be worried or get excited.
for he had the fundA TO meet the
check.
Attacking Fuller, r. G.. Park
thfew Fuller to the ground after
bbAil anu iNih Hau MT nun
with rocks. so Peterson says. who
succeeded In separating the com
batants The Park brothers left. he
says after making remark to the
effect that they would return with
CUPS. Within twenty minutes, he
says they returned, as he and Mr.
Fuller were in the office dressing
the latter's wounds consisting OF
several bruises about tho face and
body
Don't move" l.. V. Park re-
marked. Peterson SAYS. and almost
at the same time, 7. G. Park the
larger of the two men. pulled a gun
and fired ty6 shots at him. Peter
son snv he then laid over the table,
and Fuller extended his hahd 20
wave him away while asking the
Park brothers not 10 shoot Don't
shoot" were his last words. Just
before n bullet pasted through his
head. hitting him just over the tenn
pie. The police were called and
Capt. ". r. wilkerson and several
plainclothes men answered the call
They arrested the Park brothers
Fuller was taken TO the Oklahoma
hospital. where he died. His body
Was taken IN charge by howray's
Park Claim Self Defense.
r. q. Park told the police that he
had on different occasions requested
Fuller TO make good checks that he
held and finally succeeded In get
ting one for the full amount which
still was not made good He sd
mitted, according to the officers,
that after the first quarrel with Full
Ter. which took place In the cement
yard. that he left and returned with
a gun. lie says that Fuller and Pet
erson met him and his brother with
paling. and that he shot In self
defense. when Fuller vert to a desk.
pulled out a drawer, which he thot
gun. n was then that
he fireh Park told the police The
police say they were unable TO find |
a gun in the desk.
Mr.. Fuller had been In Tulsa for
almost Two years and had been en- !
gagged in paving and sewer construc- !
tlon IN addition 10 managing tho
block plant the largest concern In I
Tulsa that manufactures cement |
paving blocks
His home is at Muskogee. where |