The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-07
LES SIGIER SHOT TO DEATH IN FORT WORTH
BY BOB BRAZIEL; SLAYER IS HELD IN JAIL
ARRESTED AFTER SHOOTING EX-CHIEF
Of POLICE WHOST0OD CHARGED WITH
KILLING HIS BROTHER LAST JANUARY


Especial Ia The ArdmOreite)
Fort Worth. Dee G.-Another death
In an oklahoma fued came in Fort
Worth this evening at 6.3O o'clock when
Les Siglor formerly chief OF police at
Ardmore. Okla was shot and killed a
Fifteenth aud Main streets.
Shortly after the shooting Bob Bra
2Iol Of Fort Worth was arrested and
placed i'm the county Jail ON a charge
of murder. Sglcr was under indict
mcut Tor lJlling Bra2iers brother. Dow
BRAZIL at Ardmore last January.
One Witness examined by District
Attorney Jesse A. Brown tonight stat,t
that just before the shots were fired
he heard Bra2iel cNclaim:
You killed my brother 10 months
ago ana now am going to KIN you"
Ii is said that the same pistol thar
was used i'm the Ardmorc shooting fired
the fatal shots in Siglcr's body here.
Attorney Walter Il. Scott repre-
/ sontiug Brl2iel stated that Braaiel
saot in scfd"fcnse. He said that in
, formation he had received was that
Siglcr placed his hand toward his hip
pocket as Braziol approached him.
# shot him in self.defense, | was
not going TO let him Kill me like ne haG
killed my brother BraAel stated az.
ter the shooting, according to Scott.
Bond Is Denied Braliel
Eralio was romanded to Jail with.
out bond Bail viii be denied until al
ter the ease has been thoroughly in.
/ ycstigated, District Attorney Brown
stated. An examining trial may be call
cd Monday The case will be inves.
lgated 10y the grand jury, which viii.
meet Tuesday morning.
Siger had been in the real estate
business at Ardmore. lie came here
ON business. His friends stated that
he served for two years as Ardmore's
chief of police, retiring about a year
800
After the shooting. Bra2el walked
east tO Commerce street, where he
was taken into custody by Bob Bowles
of Crowley, Bowles recently gave up
his commission as deputy sheriff,
but still had his sherff's badge in his
pocket. lie put on his badge, inform
ed Brazie that he was under arrest
received his pistol and took him to
the district attorneys office.
= Braziel was wanted by the state as
a witness in the Charley Cochran mur
der case, which was called recently in
the criminal district court. Al that
time he was I'm Ardmore attending
. the trial OF Bud Ballew. who was
. charged with the killing OF Dow Bra
$ ziol.
, Sigler's Gun in Scabbard
4 A pistol stil in its scabbard was
, found on Siglers body after the shoot
n ing. Sigler died In less than an hour
r after he was shot His body win be
sent to Ardmore sunday morning for
burial there.
According to the story of j. W. Rigea
Sigler and Brazel passed him walking
together. He heard three shots fired
and saw Sigler fall, face forward With
his revolver in his hand, Brazie walk
ed rapidly away.
one Of the bullets took effect in tine
! center of the forehead, it was that
wound which caused death.
one witness declared that he heart
Braziel warn a woman to get out ol
the way; that there was going to he
trouble in this neighborhood.
Another man who claimed to hav,
seen the shooting said that Sigler made
a move as If TO get his hand out Of his
pocket as BraAel opened fire. On,
Of the shots went wild and crashe,
through a plate glass window across
the street
The scene Of the shooting is near the
depot and in a busy section Of tn,
city. The streets We're crowded.
Bra2el had not met Sigler in thi:
city until tonight
Mrs. Bob Braziel and Mrs. Dow Bra
ziel are living here now.
(By an ArdmOreite Reporter)
The killing of Les Segler, former Ard
more chief OF police, by Bob Braziel il
Fort Worth at late hour yesterda,
evening, is an aftermath to the killns
Of Dow Bra2iel in a pistol duel will
Sigler and Bud Ballew, January 81
1919, in Ardmore. Sigler was chic
Of police Of Ardmore at the time anC
Bud Ballew was a deputy sheriff, whil'
Dow Brazicl was q federal enforcement
officer.
Dow Braziel served one term as chic
Of Ardmore's police. The duel i
which he was killed took place at al
early hour on the morning named.
Bud Ballew recently was acquitte
by jury in the district court Of CaI
tel county Of murder charges in con
nection with the killing of Dow Brazie
An information in the same case
on file against sigler, charging muI
der,
Sigler left Ardmore early Saturda
morning for Fort Worth and was cor
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