Cherokee County, from The Advocate, 7/22/1893
Cherokee Co. OK Archives 
Copyright c 2003 by: Mollie Stehno, e-mail: shoop@orcacom.net
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ARRESTED FOR MURDER
Murderers of Walter Scott Captured

July 22, 1893-The Cherokee Advocate-Deputy U. S. Marshal J. C. C. Rogers, with 
Howell L. Rogers as posse, came in from the Cherokee Nation with John and Mack 
Glass, two Cherokee outlaws, who have been on the scout about six years.  They 
are the notorious whiskey peddlers and rendezvoused in the Sallisaw Mountains 
and have more than once been suspected of being connected with the Starr gang.
    	 The deputies slipped up on the house, where they were stopping, about 
daylight yesterday morning and captured their men in bed.  They were made 
prisoners before they had a chance to make any resistance, though from the 
quantity of arms in the room they would have made a stubborn fight, had they 
been aware of the presence of the deputies.  The prisoners were wanted here on 
the charge of introducing and selling, and they were bound over by the 
commissioner.
	 John and Mack Glass are wanted in Crawford County on a charge of murder 
committed six years ago.  After the commissioner's trial, Rogers got a writ of 
removal from the U. S. Court and took his prisoners over to Van Buren and placed 
them in jail.  The crime of which they stand charged is the killing of a man 
named Scott.  The Glass boys had been in Van Buren and left there drunk.  On the 
road they met Scott and wantonly shot him down without the least provocation.
	  The prisoners are fine looking Indians, about thirty years of age.  
There is a reward of $200 offered by the governor for their arrest.  Ft. Smith 
Times