Obit of Charles Bartlett Harless
   
                          CHARLES BARTLETT HARLESS
                                      
   Posted by Joan (DeFore) Garvey for Elk City Library <Joande4@juno.com>
                                      
                                      
   Elk City Paper, Beckham Co., OK March 25, 1937
   
   CHARLES BARTLETT HARLESS
   
   Charles Bartlett HARLESS, farmer who lived two miles east and three
   south of Elk City, died Tuesday afternoon about 4:30 at a local
   hospital from wounds received shortly before noon Monday.
   
   Harless was shot in the abdomen while he and Bill LEWIS were in a
   fight. Circumstances leading up to the fight were not learned, but
   Police Chief Orlin JONES and J. P. ELLIOTT, who were called to the
   scene, said that they were told HARLESS had gone to the LEWIS farm and
   an argument started. HARLESS told ELLIOTT, while being brought to the
   hospital in an ambulance, "The boy shot me."
   
   LEWIS was taken to the Washita County jail at Cordell where he was
   being held pending filing of charges.
   
   Mr. HARLESS had been a resident of Oklahoma since 1901. He was born
   March 14, 1881, in Travis County, Texas. He was married in 1904 to
   Laura BURLESON in Edwards County, Texas.
   
   Survivors are his widow, one brother, Brown HARLESS, Elk City; and two
   sisters, Mrs. Ellen MAXEY, Shawnee, and Mrs. Ida KENNEDY, Lugert.
   
   Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the
   Killough-Hullum chapel with John H. BANISTER, minister of the Church
   of Christ, officiating. Burial was in the Bell View cemetery northeast
   of the city.

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