The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-15
SHERIFF BATTLES FOR LIFE
IN FIGHT WITH HOLD-UP
MEN, ONE BEING KILLED

Mills % years old dead and Charley Thomas 20 is in the
Hardy suffering the result
hod-up Saturday night and the shooting
which followed about O'Clock Sunday morning
Jim Frensey had been Ardmore until
hour returning home when the bridge near
Frank Caddocs place three miles they stopped by two
pulled guns them and told them ther hands
The robbers through the pockets OF the three in the car and
They did something the which prevented being moved
The robbers then turned and came toward Ardmore
called Sheriff Buck Garrett Taking Deputy Bev with him. each
travelling the Crddock place and from the
who had been robbed secured description the robbers the car
and the articles taken from them
The officers learned "onee car Ford as had only
negro Fields who said he had such turning north
The sheriff was of the opinion that was the
every the
night stands Berwyn hardly
why took that road but he did and small about three
Stick EN- Up"
The sheriff his alongside OF the stopped and Bud aew
sheff Both OF the robbers
their Mills the head of and Thomas the The sheriff
stepped up Whas the old
uoub In reply this Thomas abbed an automatic over the her
said 'em up"
Sheriff Garrett grabbed gun enclosing his
gers gun he could shoot The sheriff had his
the pocket OF his and had gloves making difficult for him
reach the He did however, and the rober grabbed fo it,
twisting the her finger around the trigger guard and nearly breaking
gradually working his land loose and
back his head the robbcr pulled the the bullet barely
ing Then he called to Bud Balew, begin shooting
In the meantime the smaller Mills had fired shot Baw
and when the sheriff called he shot the sheiff the face the
striking coming beneath eye The shot
sent the man down he pulling the sheriff with him. both wrapped up to-
gether, each trying to get loose his gunhand
While they the sheriff have his loose,
Judging IRON the direction OF one OF the shots in Thomas leg Then he
got shot the again through the leg and the side the bullet
breaking rib pieces but DETECTING and lodging under the skin
in the back.
of the bones Thomas leg shattered but the other bullet
passed through his leg without striking bone
Balew Kills One Robber
the Mills continued shooting Bud Balev when the
latter shot him through the head the bullet entering the point
where he hit the other but instead OF DETECTING went straight
through his head killing him instantly Russell Brown the county
oey who there early in the morning said he such
man ielL
robbers passed farmers wagon they
ng Armo and these overlook them shortly after the sheriff
deputy got help loaded
and the wounded into their and brought them the city
taking the dead the undertaking OF Brown Brgman
and the wounded man to the Hardy santarium.
Thomas dressed and today he much better
is believed by the attending physicians tha he VIII recover
When Taleo describing the hodup he said the who
going through pockets had diamond ring
the finger of Mills, the who killed.
The Talo boy watch and the taken from the
also found on the robbers The Ford car they were using an old one
and was brought IN with one tire on Inc oce Deeye IS Garter
county the county attorney found stuck down behind
pencil with the OF the Iudon-IIouson Lumber Company
The engine number S 254l960
According the
man. Angeles Calf reported that
had been the oil fields recently and that they Ardmo
Saturday Most OF the clothing they bore Oklahoma City trade
marks but Mills had pair OF shoes with the OF the Hamilton
Shoe Company shirts
OF their hands had been engaged hard labor
Thomas formerly from Lane in Aoka county His brother
arrived here today Thomas is six feet and inch tall and
powerful The sheriff said he the toughest proposition in
wes that he hold OF and but the shooting by u
sheriff undoubtedly would have lost his life lie is said
long prison record.
Talaeo OF the held up, said today that he
frightened but that he his hands and told the robbers
saving that ii this their attempt so slow with
guns be careful that they did not kill somebody He said his
raaeo who ha, returned from the did like the de
putting hands and SLOW about He said he heard the robbie
swearing and saying rapidly put EN- EN- up and afraid h
and then he told his them quick lie
they crippled his by cutting all the wires in it,
Taaerro had pocket ul OF deeds mortgages and ohe
papers robbers took these he told papers
value him. but could do them good and asked them
them % him. which they did.