Obit of James William Holdge (h432) - Caddo County, Oklahoma

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Holdge, James William

 FORT COBB NEWS - FEBRUARY 14, 1974 

SHOOTING OCCURS AT FORT COBB CITY HALL    # 473

James William Holdge of Route 3 Fort Cobb, died at St. Anthony Hospital,
Oklahoma City, about 4:45 a.m. Saturday of a gunshot wound suffered during
a scuffle in the Fort Cobb city hall with assistant city Marshall Earl
Eads, Fort Cobb, according to County Sheriff T.L. Stuart. Holdge was taken
by ambulance to Anadarko Municipal Hospital where he was given emergency
treatment, then transferred to Oklahoma City. Eads was also taken to
Anadarko Municipal Hospital where he was admitted for observation of
injuries suffered in the scuffle and later he was attacked at the hospital
by Billy Don Holdge, brother of the dead Man. According to Sheriff's office
investigation of the shooting was continuing. According to Stuart trouble
began about 11:00 p.m. Friday when Eads arrested James Lee Holdge, son of
James Holdge, "apparently for some type of traffic violation", and took him
to the Fort Cobb City Hall. Then the boy's dad came in and there was some
kind of a scuffle during which the pistol went off, the Sheriff said. The
shot struck the older Holdge in the stomach and the bullet traveled upward
into the chest area, according to Stuart. The gun was presumed to be Eads,
the Sheriff said. Officers reported that Billy Bon Holdge attacked Eads as
he was being wheeled out of the hospital X-ray room by Captain Jerry Gentry
and Gracemont Marshall Charles Rinehart. Holdge also "took a swing at
Rinhart when he stepped in to stop him", Officers said. Eads was working
for City Marshall Gene Payne who had gone to help his son whose car was
broken down near Guymon, according to Payne. Eads has been released from
Anadarko Municipal Hospital.
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