Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Henry Brown, 1928
09 Oct 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BROWN, HENRY
(18 Oct 1928, Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
Friday night a man going by the name of Jimmie Brownson was killed by
Willie Boitel.  The two men had been picking cotton for Floyd Wetherman,
on the McKinney farm located 5 miles Southwest of Erick.  Both men are
strangers here and very little is known about them.
From the best information obtainable, the men had been drinking whiskey
and as a general rule a man poluted (sic) with fire water is very apt to
get into serious trouble.
Brownson insisted on Boitel taking a drink, which he refused to do this
precipitated the trouble.  An old stove leg was laying on top of the stove
in the room where the two men were staying and when trouble started Boitel
secured the leg, dealing Brownson a couple of blows over the head crushing
his skull.
After the fight he brought the man to town for medical treatment, and he
passed away at the King Hotel.
The body of the dead man was taken to the Fatheree Funeral Home, where it
is being held until relatives can be located.
Willie Boitel was turned over to the sheriff and is now in the county jail
charged with the killing.
A telegram was received this week from a Mr. Wyatt, stating that the dead
man's real name was Henry Brown, of Lovington, New Mexico.