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El lAQT Or BILL E0SE7, THE-'WGT0EI0O3 TEXASHDTE^ADO.ETing In Ela Boats Is tio fndlan Territory.Okmulgee, via Eukai i..\, Lsr. Teh., June 21 .-i—Hill Posey, the most notorious desperado of Texas, was shot lo death while resisting arrestk Three years shieq, Bill Posey, of Limestone County, 'Kxns, of wealthy parents, commit ted a number of crimes. A mom; other pleasantries he hung his brother-in-law in his own door-yard. He run on in hlff wild career until tweiity-oino indictments had been /muirl against him in that State, when he was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to five years in the State Penitentiary,in: rscAVF.ft from jail and fled to the Indian Terri ory. i Subsequently he Was .uTC-ted by Llt;: JJail and served out twenty mouths of his lime and again escaped lo the Territory, v.mre he has been soon ting for fifteen months past, after visiting Okmulgee and Muskogee and bidding defiance to the United } States marshals, who sought to re-arrest him for the #500 reward oflcrctj by the State of Texas. A few weeks .since the Governor of Texas made a requisition on the Creel^aUlTorltics, through the United States Agent,.-for Poscjffj’ Chief Ward. Coachman. ordered Snn THlarpCc, CuptShi 1 of the Creek Light Ilorse; to tyUy.hbn
Newspaper Details
Indian Journal
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Jun 28, 1877
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Massillon P.
OH, USA 18 Oct 2016
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