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MUSKOGEE OFFICERS HUNTMURDERERS IN COUNTY !t;*Lawrence Boys Chased Through Sequoyah County Late Evening^\The Lawrence brothers who are'4Ywanted in connection with the shooting of.Joe Morgan, an officer .of Muskogee county near Dallas, Texas, last week were chased through this cpunty late Tuesday evening.jThe . Lawrence brothers are 19 and 22 years old. They had been arrested as they attempted to cross the border into Mexico and were being brought, back to Muskogee to face the charge of auto stealing, when one oi? the boys shot and instantly killed Officer Morgan and handcuffed Jod1 Barger, another officer, to a tree near the high-wty The slayers have been at large since and the officers-haveJbeen right on their heels, but so far have been.iunable to apprehend the youths.Mont Grady, a special officer and the man who killed Ed Lockhart, the■ r • •» | ■ • - i m, »*• ’ *ioted bank bandit, near Tulsa several,*months ago, and Joe Barger who was with Morgan at the time he was killed were among the posse to search this county Tuesday night and Wednesday for the Lawrence boys.According to the officers the Lawrence boys are traveling in a high power motor car and have with them Billie Miller, who was- sentenced- from this county to five years in the peni-' tentiary for highway robbery—the Miller woman was a member of the gang which held up and relieved Walter Ashbrook of this city of his loose change and watch near the Garvin home, six miles east of Sallisaw, about a year ago. After she was sent t the penitentiary former governor Walton granted her a parole.
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Sequoyah County Democrat
Sallisaw, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Jun 27, 1924
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Rick E.
NA, 26 Apr 2025
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