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[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0162]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "E. C. "Shorty" Coulston, 58, operator of a swank gambling club near the Oklahoma-Pottawatomie county line, was critically injured early Saturday in a gangland style bombing of his station wagon."
Date: March 22, 1958
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0159]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gambling war reports were being investigated by Pottawatomie county officials Saturday after a bomb planted in the station wagon of a Mc Cloud gambler, blew the vehicle's front end to bits and seriously hurt the gambler E.C. "Shorty" Coulson, 58, the dynamite blast went off when Coulson attempted to start the station wagon after closing his hilltop Supper club four miles west of Mc Cloud."
Date: March 21, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0243.0160]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "gang land bomb that critically injured Pottawatomie county gambler E. C. "Shorty" Coulston early Saturday was secured to the motor of his station wagon in the area circled above."
Date: March 21, 1958
Creator: Gumm, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1241.0066]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Barney Shelton, 44-year-old eastern Oklahoma gambler, right, had just $210 left Tuesday when he was booked at the Oklahoma county jail. In background above is Y. V. "Salty" Burks, chief criminal deputy sheriff. (Arrested for 'attempted bribery of a police officer')"
Date: January 7, 1952
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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