Beckham County, OK - Deaths: A. J. Stratton, 1905
Monday, 15 December 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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STRATTON, A. J.
(Aug  1905, Erick Newspaper, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
Sam'l N. Stratton, who lives four miles south of Erick, left Saturday for
Ravia, I. T., in response to a telegram received Friday conveying the
startling intelligence that his father, A. J. Stratton, had been murdered
at that place.
We quote the following special dispatch from the Dallas News:  "Denison
officers were advised early this morning that A. J. Stratton, an aged
widower, was murdered at Ravia, I. T., last night.  His slayer was
reported as coming to Denison on the Frisco Meteor, but was not found
among the passengers upon the train's arrival.  Conductor Thompson, who
was on the train, reported to the officers that he had talked with the man
they described, but that he got off the train in the territory just before
reaching Texas.  Stratton was found lying outside his house Thursday
morning with a blanket over his head.  An ax had been used by the
murderer.  Stratton recently received $700 back pension and carried the
money in his pockets."
Mr. Stratton is one of north Greer county's substantial farmers and his
many friends in the community sympathize with him and his estimable family
in their bereavement.

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