Ottawa County, OK - newspaper article - shootout

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Eleanor Southwick 
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Source:   Miami Daily News Record
July 18, 1932
Page 1, Column 6
Miami, Ottawa County, Oklahoma
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On the same front page of the paper that Richard J. Finke's
death announcement was on is an interesting partial. There is
only part of it included on my photocopied page.  It relates the
story of  a shoot-out between a disgruntled citizen and a police
officer in a crowded drug store. There is enough to get the
story and several names.  Both men died.  The shooting took
place in the drug store in the presence of twenty-five other
people.  One other person, a 22 year old farm boy was also shot
and killed.    Another person was wounded in the knee.

Names in the article are Crockett Long, operative of the State
Bureau of Criminal Identification,  Rhody Watkins, the farm boy,
John  Gleen, Chief of Police, Wiley Lynn, the instigator, and
John Hilburn, shot in the knee.  The opening line is not there
so I am uncertain where in Oklahoma this took place. The injured
were taken to Ardmore Hospital so it would have been near there.