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me snerin s iorce in raids during the past eight months.S'aCoal CountyMen KilledA. F. Tucker of Coalgate and Edwin McCabe, Tupelo Man, Fight to DeathTULSA, Maich 23.— .T'1—Two men died and a child was injured early today in a shooting affray between an estranged husband and a man who had been his close friend.Albert F. Tucker, 33, of Coalgate and Edwin McCabe. 26, a taxi driver, died from each other's bullets after Tucker broke into the house occupied by his estranged wife.Cleo Tucker, 14, was shot through the left foot by - bullet from her stepfather's pistol.Mrs. Neoma Tucker, 28. and her son Clarence. 11, escaped without injury while the two men shot it out.Mrs. Tucker and other witnesses told police Tucker broke into the home of his estranged wife, shot McCabe as he lay in bed there and in turn was shot bv McCabe.With a bullet wound through the chest, Tucker ran some distance. was picked up and taken to a hospital where he died a few minutes later. McCabe, with two wounds in the chest and side and another in his right arm, died two hours later at the same hospital.In her little house in a back alley today Mrs. Tucker washed the blood of the two men from the floor and said she would “put them both away” at Coalgate.She said she was born at Stillwell. married when she was 14 and Tucker was her second husband. She left Tucker at Coalgate, she said, and came to Tulsa some time ago with McCabe.Tucker is survived by his father. Whit Tucker of Seminole. McCabe is survived by a seven-year old daughter in Tupelo. He had been divorced.w timf unuir
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Ada Weekly News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Mar 25, 1937
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