Whitman County WA Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Thomas October 10, 1904
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Monring Oregonian October 11,1904
Shot In Quarrel
Thomas Brown Is Fatally Shot By Billiard Hall Keeper
Colfax,Wash.,Oct.10-(Special)
Frank Lewis, the keeper of a temperance billiard hall of oakesdale fatally 
shot Thomas Brown, aged 22 years, at Oakesdale this morning in a quarrel. Both 
men were armed,and, it is said, bot started to draw at the asme time, but 
Lewis was the quicker and fired two shots into Brown at close range before 
Brown coul dpull his gun. Marshal Engle, of Oakesdale, arrested Lewis and 
started with a gaurd ot bring him to Colfax. There was considerable talk of an 
attempt to lynch Lewis, and Mayor Hutchinson, of Oakesdale,telephoned Sheriff 
Canutt, who drove out, met the gaurds and brought Lewis to Colfax. He is in 
jail, but on the advice of his attorney refuses to talk. Lewis is 37 years old 
and has a wife and thre daughters, the youngest 3 weeks old.

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