Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Roy Samuels, 1929
Saturday, 01 November 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SAMUELS, ROY
(20 Jun 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
NEGRO HUSBAND KILLED NEAR BERLIN FRIDAY.
Negro Woman Is In Hospital With Gun Wounds Resulting From Self Infliction.
"Devotion even to death". . .  the poets have sung.
Which may have been what Mrs. Roy Samuels, colored, had in mind when she
shot her husband last Friday evening at eight o'clock at the home of
Walter Hannia who lives two miles west and one mile south of Berlin.
Mrs. Samuels is said to have shot her husband because he threatened to
leave her.  She fired two shots, one entering to the right of the spine
and the other passing completely through the chest.  He died instantly.
She then turned the revolver upon herself and a shot came through her
chest.  She was brought to an Elk City hospital where it is thought she
will recover.  An inquest was held at the scene of the murder and the dead
negro's body was buried at Cheyenne cemetery Saturday.
Mrs. Samuels is the daughter of Preacher Jones who lives about four miles
west of Elk City.

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