From gun to gavel
Subtitle: the courtroom recollections of James Mathers of  Oklahoma
By: as told to Marshall Houts.
Contributors: Houts, Marshall.
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Lawyers -- Oklahoma -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.; Trials -- Oklahoma.
Description: The memoirs of a long-serving American lawyer who began his practice in 1896 when Oklahoma was still an outlaw's paradise. Some of the dramatic and hilarious events from Mathers' career in which he handled over 1,000 cases involving the death penalty for the accused and often danger for the attorney, judge and jury. Chapters cover many notorious characters of the day including "Machine Gun" Kelly.