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IT WAS A MOB EITHER WAYGov. Ferguson, of Oklahoma, Faced a Ftculiar Proposition.Guthrie, Ok., July 23.—Gov. Ferguson was forced last night to withhold his decision 011 a request for the commutation of the sentence of death imposed upon Ce-phus Bruner, a half-blood Seminole Indian-negro boy, convicted of murdering a white boy, Martin West, near Violet Springs, Ok., December 24, last.Yesterday the governor was notified that if the sentence was commute! there was great danger of a mob taking Bruner from the Tecumseh jail and lynching him, and if not commute! that a party of Bruner’s friends werereadv to cross the Seminole line into Oklahoma and liberate him.It was a mob either way, so the governor sent a sealed verdict to the Pottawatomie county sheriff, and Bruner will be removed before either party can reach him. On account of the boy’s youth, only 14 years, the general opinion is that the sentence is commuted. After the murder of West a mob, failing to find Bruner, hanged his older brother in the Seminole nation.
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Sedalia Evening Democrat
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Wed, Jul 23, 1902
Page 4
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