The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-11
JOE DUANE SHOT
AND KILLED ON
STREET YESTERDAY
QUARREL. OVER HARNESS
FOLLOWED BY SHOOT
ING ON BROADWAY.
0. S, BAILEY IS IN JAIL
Slain Man Was Frequently Under
Suspicion As Government Enemy
Bailey Fired Several Shots Into
Prostrate Mans Body.

Joe Duane was shot and killed
on Broadway, between Washington
and Caddo streets, near the new Gait
building, yesterday afternoon about
4 o'clock. O. s. Bailey was arrested
by Policeman James Chancellor and
taken to the county jail.
There was dispute between
Duane and Bailey, but just how it
started, was difficult to learn, for
those who apparently knew most
about it were not willing to say
much.
Bob Rogers, a horse dealer, was
on horseback, as was Bailey, i'll the
yard Immediately north OF Broad
way, where mitch horse trading is
done and where 4 number of horse
traders congregate daily.
One man said Bailey. or Rogers,
or both of them called Duane to
them. He was standing on the side
walk and went to the side OF Bal
leys' horse.
Quarreled Over Harness
They were having some words
about the sale of set OF harness
when the first the onlookers knew
Bailey had shot Duane and as the
latter fell he jumped off his horse
and shot him three or four times
when Duane was lying on the
ground. Dow Braziel picked up
three bullets beside the dead man as
he was lifted up to be placed in an
ambulance. They had been fired
from an automatic pistol.
Duane was shot in the breast,
forehead and left wrist. AS near as
could be discovered from a cursory
view of the body at an undertakers,
at least five bullets hit him. Two
wounds indicated that one bullet
had entered his side, passed entirely
through the body and out at the
other side, short distance beneath
the arms.
Bailey was said to be intoxicated
to an extent that he hardly knew
what he was doing. AT the jail last
night he was in no condition to
talk.
Bailey is said to have farm
southeast of the city and is well
known here, beng frequently on the
streets about places where livestock
is sold and traded. II had been mar
ried and he and his wife were di-
vorced last December or January.
She married Duane in June OF this
year, shortly after the six months
required for a divorce decree to be-
come effective. had expired.
Duane Thought German Spy.
Duane has had quite career in
Ardmore, although nothing has
been proven against him, but he has
spent much time in jail. He was first
picked up by the police last jan
uary, about the time man named
Warren was arrested in a lodging |
house charged with having dynamite
in his possession. They were in the
police court together, although there
was no connection between their
cases. Duane was suspected OF be-
ing a German spy.
The police had found him in many /
parts of the city, out in the resi-
dence districts, at all hours OF the
night. leaning against fence or
tree. never apparently, doing any
thing. Then he would sit Tor hours
at a time on a stool in a restaurant
and was never known TO work He
had money all OF this time.
In police court, at one time. ne
said he was born in Switzerland, OF
Austrian parents, and had spent
many years on the sea, finally land
ing in San Francisco and crossing
the country. He claimed to be
and boilermaker.
Duane's room in a lodging house
was searched by the police last
winter and no papers nor anything
of an incriminating character was
found. but he was held for further
Later he was turned
over to r. w. Hignight, deputy L.
{. marshal. who placed him in the
Jail. Duane was given an ex-
animation before William Hutchin-
son. United States commissioner,
and was recommittetd for further
He was finally taken
70 the federal jail at Muskogee and
the grand jury not finding a bill
against him he was returned here.
He then went to work for J.. L.
who has a farm east of
park. When Les Seq
Ter. chief of police, was appointed
,rV,s,rst ts register Ger.a>-a alien