Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Robert Lee Southworth, 1906
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SOUTHWORTH, ROBERT LEE
(3 Dec 1906, Wednesday, Elk City Record, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
KILLING AT CORDELL
Lee Southworth Shot and Killed by Marshall Cartwright in Street Battle.
Cordell, Okla., Dec 1. - Lee Southworth was shot and killed, City Marshall
Ed Cartwright badly cut and left in a critical condition, and Tom Brown a
deputy sheriff, seriously cut and battered in a street battle that occured
at 8:30 o'clock tonight in front of the City National Bank.
The city marshall undertook to arrest Southworth and Otto and Carl Bowers,
three farmers, who are alleged to have been intoxicated and creating a
disturbance.  The men resisted and a conflict participated, in which
Marshall Cartwright shot and killed Southworth.
Deputy Brown came to the assistance of Cartwright, who was being assaulted
by the other two men.  Both the officers were badly cut by knives in the
hands of their assailants before citizens could come to their relief.
Otto Bowers was finally overcome, seeing which his brother turned and
fled.  Otto Bowers was placed in jail and officers started in pursuit of
Carl.
Marshal Cartwright was cut four times by his assailants, one gash on his
face extending from ear to chin, and his condition is critical.  Deputy
Brown was badly battered and sustained a three-inch knife in his wrist.
It is alleged that Southworth and the two Bowers men cherished an old
grudge against Marshal Cartwright.  The affair has created considerable
excitement in the city.

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