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[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0258]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ernest William Fisher, 35, night club operator, was being held in the county jail Sunday after admitting he sot and killed his wife, Wanda Lee, 19, in a family gunfight."
Date: September 9, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0257]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ernest William Fisher, right, was questioned Sunday afternoon by Granville Scanland, left, county attorney,and Sam Oliver, middle, as assistant, about the fatal shooting of his wife, Wanda Lee, 19. Fisher, officers said, admitted the shooting but refused to sign a statement. He told officers he killed his wife defending his own life. He said both had pistols. Fisher, county night club operator,will be questioned again Mond… more
Date: September 9, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0348.0656]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gary Walter Ladon, slaying suspect, is searched Monday at the city jail booking desk by homicide detective Bob Thompson."
Date: January 28, 1974
Creator: Carter, Pat J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1245.0134]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "He chased me with a knife," 15-year-old Ray Lee Sikes told police Monday after admitting the fatal shooting of Paul Edward Treat, 41. He was taken to police headquarters with his mother, Mrs. Annie McGhee, 47, and ordered held for juvenile officers. The boy said Treat, a former convict and roomer at the McGhee home on West Washington, threatened him after he had an argument with his (Sikes') mother."
Date: January 17, 1955
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1283.0361]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Slaying suspect Johnny Ray Thomas, 25, stands alone before being booked into jail Saturday afternoon in connection with the Thursday night slaying of Mrs. Phyllis Waggoner, 82."
Date: November 26, 1977
Creator: Hoke, Doug
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1418.0383]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A young Midwest City man shot and killed his stepfather Wednesday night after what his mother called "a long period of abuse."
Date: September 23, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1348.0441]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Slaying suspect Jay Walls is led to jail by officer Carl Porter after the shotgun death of James Thurber, superintendent at a Ponca City plant."
Date: February 23, 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0281.0565]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "SLAYING SUSPECT Fonzell Hamilton, right, is quizzed by police detective Bob Purdue, left, in the fatal shooting of Floyd C. Walker at an Oklahoma City nightclub early Saturday morning."
Date: March 19, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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