Beckham County, OK - Deaths: H. B. Dodson, 1917
10 Jan 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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DODSON, H. B.
(25 Jan 1917, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
After a day spent in excessive drinking and wild carousal, H. B. Dodson,
Rock Island agent at Benonine, Texas, a small station just over the
Oklahoma line, met his death Sunday night about 7:00 o'clock in a fight
with Ed Clare when Dodson's throat was cut and his head was almost severed
from his body.  Dodson was proprietor of a store at Benonine in addition
to being employed as agent for the Rock Island and it was at his store
where the fight occurred which ended in his death.
Clare was arrested soon after the tragedy and is confined in the county
jail at Wheeler under a charge of murder.  He is known as a "bad man,"
having been engaged in a number of cutting scrapes and bears an unsavory
reputation.  Dodson leaves a family consisting of a wife and three
children.  He has been employed as agent at Benonine for some time and
during his residence there Benonine has become a distributing point for
whiskey for bootleggers in Beckham and other Oklahoma counties.  Both men
who engaged in the fight were under the influence of whiskey, and no one
seems to know just how they became involved in the fight.

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