Beckham County, OK - Deaths: Lee Leedy and Wife, 1907
27 August 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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LEEDY, LEE & WIFE
(11 Sep 1907, Wednesday, Elk City Record, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.  A Man at Weatherford Kills His Wife and is Himself
Killed by Citizens.
Crazed by jealousy caused by the attentions to his wife by a piano tuner,
S. D. Fry, Lee Leedy, who runs the City Hotel at Weatherford, shot and
killed his wife in the hotel at noon yesterday.  Fry boarded and roomed in
the hotel and it is asserted, was paying improper attentions to the
proprietors wife.
Immediately after the murder, Leedy left town and was followed by a number
of citizens armed, who, finding him in a canyon north of town, and, on his
attempting to run away from them shot and killed him.  His body was
brought to town and an inquest held over both at one time.
Fry was warned of the danger to his life if he remained in Weatherford,
and promised to leave.  However, it is rumored that he said later that he
would stay as long as he pleased.

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