Page 6 of 6
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

27
T. M. HENLEY, 48, his wife, Cora May HENLEY, and their children, Wanda
June, 6, and Flora B. 1, found shot to death in their home one mile north
and one mile west of Newalla, by relatives who had come to vist for
Thanksgiving.

Dr. J. H. HAYS, pioneer Enid physician, died.

Miss Ann BUCKLIN and Stewart E. MEYERS wed at Oklahoma City.

Miss Virginia WILLIAMS, 16, Maud, Oklahoma, killed in automobile crash
near Picacho, Ariz., Wednesday.

John H. BELLIS, 57, Cushing, well known cotton dealer and former
president of the Oklahoma cottonseed crusher's association, died.

28
Miss Vivian FRANCIS and Morris L. HEAD married in Oklahoma City.

Elsie FAIRFAX, Oklahoma City, and Benton S. BROOKS, Jr., Ventura, 
California, wed in Oklahoma City.

Georgia Van HORN and Frank W. CARLYLE wed in Oklahoma City.

Miss Gertrude BRODERICK, formerly of Oklahoma City and James Reginald
GREEN, wed at Tulsa.

Miss HELEN SANDERS and Dr. Delbert G. SMITH, wed in Oklahoma City.

Majory NORRIS and Johnny HAYNER, Tulsa, wed at Okmulgee Nov 25.

Miss Kamita PYLES and Travis P. CASH wed in Oklahoma City.

30
Dr. James R CAMPBELL, 81, chair of education, A & M college and first
president of the Southwest teachers college. Weatherford, died.

Miss Alma Lee COUCH, University of Oklahoma Co-ed, charged with jewelry
theft at Oklahoma City where she workd as a maid, discharged by jury.

J. B. SCHERMERHORN, pioneer Oklahoma and Texas oil man, died at 
Rochester, Minn.

Lucille HURD and A. J. BAXTER wed in Oklahoma City.

DECEMBER
2
C. K. KAISER, 70, pioneer 89'er of Oklahoma City, died at Corpus Christi
Texas.

Tom VERNON, former rodeo rider, arrested at Pawnee, December 1st, in 
connection with train robberies in California and Wyoming, confessed
to wrecking and robbing a California train near Sangus. He denied holdup
of train near Cheyenne. He said he was the son of Jim AVERILL and Ella
WATSON, hanged for cattle rustling in 1889 in Wyoming.

3
Chester MORELAND and J. H. GILL arrested in Oklahoma City and charged
with robbery of the McComb State Bank in Pottawatomie county. Identified
by Miss Pauline CARDER, cashier of the bank.

4
Harry BRICE, pioneer moving picture showman, died in Oklahoma City.

A special supreme court decision gave O.O. OWENS, Tulsa, title to the
land he purchased from the alleged sole heir of Will JACKSON, Creek
Indian. Mattie HOWARD, claiming to be an heir, brought suit to
recover title and determine heirship.

6
Lumber truck hits automobile of Oklahoma City, injuring family of 
seven persons. The family was that of B. H. SMITH, Blanchard.

Miss Athene FRANCIS wed Paul AVERY at Oklahoma City.

8
G. W. CARRICO, pioneer and civic leader, died at Oklahoma City. Age 78.

Mrs. J. W. MAHER, 76, widow of former publisher of the El Reno Democrat,
died at El Reno.

W. P. JENNINGS, 84, pioneer 89'er and Union Soldier, died at Oklahoma
City.

9
Governor HOLLOWAY voids death sentence of Ted COLE, Tulsa robber who
was armed in his theft.

E. G. HIGHTOWER, 63, pioneer and former mayor of Pauls Valley, died there.

James T. PEARSON, 81, pioneer ranchman and peace officer, died at Moore.

Mr and Mrs. W. D. YOUNG, Mangum, celebrated their sixtieth wedding 
anniversary.

10
O. P. BUTLER, Enid, federal prohibition agent, was killed instantly, and
John DANHOUR, Oklahoma City, treasury department operative, was wounded
on a raid upon a negro barber shop in Cushing.

Dr. R. E. LOONEY, Oklahoma City, died.

11
Convicted on a charge of murdering Ira SAMSON, another farmer, J. Arthur
KELTNER, Tishomingo farmer, sentenced to 50 year term.

Edward W. GANTT, 60, Oklahoma city building contractor, killed in his
garage by monoxide gas.

12
Frank CHARON, 49, early oil operator, died at Okmulgee.

Louis ADAMS, 4, dies as a result of being hit by Motor car in Oklahoma
city. 

13
A. H. ROMINES killed in airplane crash at Oklahoma City.

Oil explosion at Bartlesville fatally burned R. R. BRANDENTHALER, 
petroleum engineer.

Charles FIELDEN, Bartlesville, killed in motor car turnover.

W. W. MORGAN, Tonkawa policeman, freed of murder charge in connection
with the death of Virgil SIMPKINS, Osage Indian of Pawhuska.

Joe NICKOLS of Enid killed from fall from house in California.

Jackson BARNETT, Creek Indian, gets $47,521 refund on taxes.

J. P. NOLL, 53, Oklahoma City travelling salesman, found dead in 
automobile at Dale. Believed to have died from a heart attack.

15
Elmer MCCOLLUM, messenger of the Oklahoma Railway Co. at Oklahoma City
slugged and robbed of $1,700.

Fred H. REED, pioneer 89'er and furniture dealer in Oklahoma City,
died at his home in Avalon, Catalina Island.

Miss Ruby HOWARD and Fred DUNLAP wed in Oklahoma City.

Garland SLEMP, Oklahoma City, killed by accidental discharge of his
gun while hunting.

State criminal court of appeals reversed the case of Mae BECKER, 25,
Ponca City, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing her husband
Waldo BECKER, refinery worker.

Carrie STERLING, 28, of Pryor, mother of four, and Hughes county's first
highjacker, sentenced to 5 years in prison. Her companion in crime,
Clarence IRON, 30, Okemah, recieved a sentence of 30 years.

17
Sixty-one miners were entombed in an explosion in the Old Town Co.'s
mine in North McAlester, nearly 4,000 feet from the mouth of the 
shaft.

18
Fire destroyed Adair county courthouse, and five prisoners and a 
deputy had a narrow escape. County lost all records, tax rolls,
court proceedings and land titles.

20
Firing into the rear of a fleeing car and wounding two men who had
just robbed the First National bank of Gracemont, Caddo county,
William GRANGE, president of the institution, frustrated the
escape of the bandits.

Eighth homicide in three weeks in Seminole county, when Bill RING
shot and killed Joseph WILLIS, who married Ring's former wife.

W. J. "Whitey" WALKER and Curtis BLACK, Ada, sentenced to penitentiary
for life for bank robbery at Allen.

Discovered that Ernest BURKHART, confessed murderer, committed to the
state penitentiary, Oct. 4, 1926, presumably for life, on Sept. 13,
1927, was granted a leave expiring Oct. 3, but on Nov 17 granted 
another leave, but it expired the same day, and on Sept. 19, 1928, was 
released to the U. S. Marshal at Tulsa by Governor H. S. JOHNSTON to
appear as a witness in the W. K. HALE Osage Indian murder trial had
never returned. Neither state nor federal authorities would pay for
his return to the prison and he dropped out of sight.

22
Jane and Alpheus WITHERS of Glencoe celebrate their seventy-second
anniversary of their wedding.

J. W. COMER, postmaster at Chickasha, died of asphyxiation.

23
Leota RENFROW, 8, Pawhuska, choked to death on a small toy balloon.

Frank CRIDER, captain and fullback of the University of Oklahoma football
team, and Miss Kathryn JARRELL, both of Durant, married.

24
Marion PARR, Bartlesville lease broker, found dead in the smoking ruins
of his motor car on a detour south of Hayway.

25
Fred HANSON, 31, Madrid, Iowa, suffered fatal wounds from falling
from the sixth floor of a theatre building under construction at
Oklahoma City.

Lawrence WILLIAMS, Norman, art professor in the University of Oklahoma,
Gordon DOVELL, Parden, Mike CARSON, Prague, electrocuted when their
automobile hit a pole and became entangled in the wires of a highline
near Castle, Okfuskee county.

F. B. ARMSTRONG, wealthy and prominent citizen of Lincoln county,
arrested on a charge of arson.

26
J. C. SIMPSON, of Turkey Pen Hollow, Muskogee County, arrested on 
murder charge for shooting and killing 14 year old Charles WILLIAMSON,
who was in Simpson's peanut patch, which has been frequently robbed.

27
Wirt HASTINGS, nephew of representative W. W. HASTINGS of Tahlequah,
held without bail to await a preliminary hearing on the charge of
killing Charles GERLOCK, neighboring farmer.

W. H. CHAPPELL, 50, Oklahoma City, judge of the state criminal court of
appeals, and Frances M. SHAW, 34, Parker's Landing, Pa., wed in the 
Mayo Hotel, Tulsa.

C. C. HOLMES, Pauls Valley, at night, killed his stepson Clyde ESSARY, 14
with a shotgun, believing the boy to be a burglar.

28
Henry MAYSE, convicted of manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Josie PECK,
surrenders to authorities and claimes that the man who drove the death
dealing car was not himself, but the lawyer who defended him in court.

29
Morris MOORE and Miss Louise BEARD, both newspaper writers, Oklahoma
City, wed at the bride's home in Bison.

Dr. T. C. NICHOLS, 43, Oklahoma City dentist, fatally injured in automobile
crash.

30
Mrs. Thomas GRACE, Oklahoma City, killed in automobile collision.

Kingsley BAKER, M-K-T freight agent at Oklahoma City, died at El Paso,
Texas, on vacation.

31
C. S. FARRINGTON, veteran of the Spanish American war, killed when
struck by an automobile driven by C. W. MCDONALD in Oklahoma City.

Miss Joy VAN HORN and Chester DAVIS Jr. wed in Oklahoma City.

OKSpecial
OKbits