San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-26
Ed LOCKHART,
NOTED BANDIT,
SLAIN IN FIGHT
Bandit Makes Deputy Pris-
oner and Uses Him in
Effort to Escape.
SURROUNDED in HOUSE
Career Of Notorious Okla
homa Outlaw Is Brought
to Close.

Tulsa, Okla, March 28.-Ed Lock
hart, notorious bandit and bank rob-
Der. was shot and killed in a gun
fight early today with Sheriff Bob
Sanford, of Tulsa county, and n group
of six deputies at the Fred Walker
farm, six miles west of Sperry, Okla.
Lockhart was discovered in the
house at the Walker farm after San
ford had received a tip that he was
there. The sheriff and his party sur
rounded the house just at daybreak
and Mont Grady of Muskogee, spe-
cial officer, knocked at the front
door.
As he raped. the door flew open
and Lockhart covered him with n
rifle. commanding him to "stick 'em
up"
Takes Officers Gun.
Grady complied and Lockhart took
the officers revolver.
Jack Quasi. deputy sheriff. entered
the house from the rear and as he
came upon Lockhart and Grady, the
bandit thrust Grady in front of him.
finally backing out of the house and
striking for the timber, still using the
officer as a shield.
As he neared the edge Of the clear
ing about the house he fired at Sheriff
Sanford, who, with the other officers,
was in full view.
The shot was the. signal for the
fight to begin and deputies who had
circled about Lockhart and Grady,
opened fire.
Dies i'm Tracks.
Grady whirled, seized his own revol.
yer which was in Lockhart's pocket,
and without removing it from the
others clothing, fired once, the bullet
entering Lockhart's body from the
back below the kidney.
Lockhart fell with the words, "you
have killed me- on his lips, and died
in his tracks.
The death of Ed Lockhart brings
to an end the career Of what Okla
homa peace officers have described as
the "big three" in the recent Grim
inal history of the state.
Henry Starr, Al Spencer and Ed
Lockhart, these three, ranked together
as outstanding in the ranks of Okla
homa's outlaws, and all died within a
comparatively short span from the
bullets of officers guns.
IlOius Up OdiitT.
Lockhart is alleged to have been
closely associated with Starr and
Spencer in many acts Of brigandage
in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Starr died in Harrison, Ark. in
February, 1921, shot down by citi-
zens who apprehended him in the at
tempted robbery of bank. Spencer
was killed by a posse headed by Alva
Mcdonald. United States marshal for
Western Oklahoma, late last year, in
raid on the bandits stronghold in
the Usage hills.
Lockhart first attained prominence
as an outlaw in the very robbery that
brought death to Starr. With his lead
er shot. Lockhart escaped. Later, he
was arrested at Harrison, charged
with robbery of bank at Eureka
Springs. Ark. Confined in Jail at
Harrison, he held up the jailer and
fled.
In May, 1922, a bank at Gore.
Oklahoma. was robbed and Lockhart
was sought for alleged participation.
Released From Prison.
In February. 1928. he was arrested
at Salisaw, Okla, charged with rob
bling a bank there. In April of that
year he pleaded guilty to robbing the
Gore bank and accepted a twenty-year
sentence in the Oklahoma penitentiary
rather than be extradited to Harrison,
Ark, where he declared he feared mob
violence.
In August of last year, J. c. Wal
ton. then governor, granted Lockhart
a 90-day leave from the penitentiary.
Two days later a bank at Maize. in
Mayes county, Oklahoma. was robbed
and the leave was revoked. Lockhart,
however, was gone. and it was not un-
til October 4. that he was apprehended
and held in the Delaware county jail
at Jay, for officers who were TO re-
turn him to the penitentiary.
But before the officers arrived four
men xswooped down on the Jail at
night, released Lockhart and fled.
From that night until today no
trace had been obtained of the outlaw,
although various reports Of his pres
eDce in different sections of Oklahoma
and Arkansas had been received by
peace officers.