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FATAL SHOOTING AT SALLiSAW;John Aditr Shot to Diatft bf Oepdti Sdiriff Geerge W. Bitheir/ - ■At the Tandy Adair .residence in Sallisaw last Sunday evening, John Adair was shot and instantly killed by George W. Bethell, a member of Sheriff Johnston’s force for several months past. The shooting oc^ oujred about eight o’clock. The two men had always been good friends, and when.thb news of the* • ( * t ' * ' »killing flashed over the wires' * • ’ • . •throughout the qounty, their common acquaintnaces could hardlybring themselves to believe that itwas true.An account of the affair as relat\ed by one .of several eye-witnesses to it is as follows:George Bethell in company with several other men was sitting ou the porch of the Tandy Adair boarding house, when John Adair and three or four Other parties drove up in a hack. John and a man by the name of McCrady got out. Adair had i)een drinking rather freely and seemed to be in a quarrelsome mood. He attacked Claud Ford, a carpenter, kicking and pumeling him about the yard until George Bethell interfered and told Adair that he wouldahave to arrest him if he did not go behave himself. Adair then drew his knife and chrsed Bethell around awhile, but was at length persuaded to go away. He went over to the Kansas City Southern depot and several times asserted that he intended to go back to Tandy’s house and kill George Betheli. Mr. Bethell^telephoned to City Marshal Curtis come up and arrest John, but before the marshal could get to the Adair place, John had returned and renewed his attack on Bethell. The latter retreated, to the porch, with Jobu striking at him with p knife’. At the door Bethell stopped and told Adair he would have to shoot him if he (lid not desist. Adair kept advancing and Bethell shot,the bullet taking effect in Adair’s shoulder. Instead of frightening or stopping him, this seemed to enrage him all the more and he continued to use his knife mostvicious-ly. Bethel! tired twice move, one bullet making a scalp wound and the othef' entering Adaifr’s head killing him instantly.After the shooting Bethell surrendered to the officers. Monday morning he gave a five thousaud dollar bond for his appearance at the September term of court, and was released.The consensus of opiuion among the eye-witnesses to ibe tragedy ggpems to be that the killing was un-'K.1 /I n T-v An R nf K lt;1 lbi . a ntgaansclt;hobudohatbpisiivyjIs)tbP*erMS£clbetbbetbg£AItewortbKtedlt;asatDCdipiedVIMdctoh?8tP«tbtbfoP«wtrbslewpia apiTaewccfamsi
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Muldrow Press
Muldrow, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Jun 12, 1908
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