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AGAIN IN'Ml**i.’.i • *.*•Kin One United States Officer aad r Seriously Wound Another•**lt;AFTER THE FlGtfT THEY ESCAPEThree Brothers, FuII-BIobd Indians, at Head of Unknown Number of OutlawsKansas, I. T., March it.—The Wycliffe gang of Indian 'outlaws are on the warpath again.A marshal’s posse, composed ofIke Gilstrap, who was leading, OtisTittle, Dick Terry, Andy Dick, ThanWoffard, Henry Holdeman and Bob Thompson, rode up to the headquarters -of; the Wycliffe’s Sunday morning. Five men, one of them a white man, ran out and the posse gave pursuit. The bandits turned and commenced shooting.Bob * Thompson, one of the posse, to a reporter said:Among the first shots exchanged, while Gilstrap was ejecting a shell, he dropped at my feet, ,.mortally wounded, shot through the forehead,. His head struck the toe of my boot.’Just a moment before Gilstrap had dismounted from his horse he shouted to us to ‘come *on boys, we will build all up together/ When he fell he caled out, ‘Oh, Bob! Oh, Andy Oh,‘Mother!’ and died.“By this time the outlaws had been joined by six more, who came suddenly from out of the brush. I shot at the white man and I saw a stream of blood trickle down his shirt front, he stumbled and fell, but regained• ihis feet and ran into a thicket.“The white man was a tall man, wore dark clothes and had on a large white, w'ide brimmed Stetson hat,* Vwhich was pushed well back on his head.“The white man shot by posseman Bob Thompson is thought to be Bcft Cravens, the noted outlaw who has terrorized the Indian country formany years.“After the smoke of battle hadcleared away, we found Tittle and Terry at the home of Lewis Budds, a crippled Cherokee Italian. Terry was suffering from a bullet wound which had pierced his body.“We dispatched Budds to Spavt-naw for assistance and he returned with Dr. Hollingsworth. Terry will recover and in the meantime he is being cared for at the home of the-friendly Indian.• “When the bullets commenced to sing Dick Terry ran and was shot in the back. Tittle followed Terry and left Holderman, Andy Dick,Than Woffard and myself. We started to crawl away up to the head of the hollow of death. Two holes were in the meantime shot in my coat, but we still continued up the hollow until we reached an advantageous point to make a stand, but the gang did not follbw 43S.“After Gilstrap, was killed the gang returned and stole his watch, about $30 in money, his six shooter, belt and cartridges and shot into fiisHrody several times.”The outlaws have escaped and no word has been heard of them up to date.Marshal Darrough has issued orders to run every deputy marshal in the Nprthem district of Indian Territory to the scene and in addition has wired the department of justice at Washington asking authority to offer $r,ooo reward for each one of the outlaws, either deader alive. He has gone to Kansas, I.*!*.,'and will personally direct the operations against the outlaws. The_Xutlaws are headed by Charley, John and Tom Wycliffe, sons of a former justice of the’Chero-kee supreme court.The three Wycliffe boys began their career of outlawry. five years ago. They were concerned in a stabbing affray at an Indian dance; They are./• • , t. ... .it * •___professional horsethieves and have given the authorities much trouble.The Wycliffes are- fullbloods, and would not come to .the Dawes commission and select an allotment'- so their land wa.s allotted^ to'them arbitrarily by. the commission..-—if A / /' •/•-V*r
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Checotah Enquirer
Checotah, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Mar 16, 1906
Page 7
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