The Herald-Sentinel. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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Lee Southworth Killed.
Shot by Marshal Jmm Cartwright oa Bast Main
Stre it Saturday Night at 8:30.
TIE KlUiNC TIE WTWVT1 WAN OLI
The peaosful
Mm prevailed is oar lb we far e
longtime, vm broken bet Bet
hrday night when
eholeraag mi load
Oer people seemed to know that
these three shole bore other t id-
inffstbaa (hot a fire had boon
discovered. The fesling Ibit
soum poor seal hid bw hustled
%sfan Mb msstsr imdfciit
fail tad many of oar oMssss
rashed oat to learn the oasss aad
loo aooa disoovered thai I hair
loam were aa ecluallity.
Tha •hooting oooarrad on lha
sidewalk just aaal of W. W. Pal-
laa'a alora, lha parties apper-
eatlj retreating (ron lha "Chilli
Joint that distance
After tha marehall ahot three
tinea he broke and ran, pursued
by the Bauer boys, who qaugnt
Mai ia the street near the croee
uftdk leading from Patten's store
nellie City National Bank and
fcegan a murderous assault, and
had not help arrirad promptly,
Marehall Cartwright would hare
been ont to death. These boys
did not atop to aee how bad
Southworth, their brotbsrinlaw
was hurt, or whether they could
do any thing for him, but started
alter the marahal with the evi-
dent intention of killing him.
Tom Brown, the deputy, and
Floyd I<uts, depaty marahal, pal-
led the boys off with the aaaiat
anoe of othera and Cartwright
waa carried to Thornton-a Drag
Store, where Dr. Bangardt ren-
dered all toedloal aid possiMs*
Afterwards he waa o rried to hie
rooms and bis wounda dreaaad
and aewed up.
Southworth waa taken to Bin-
genhimer's bakery and medical
eid called for, but it waa of no
anil aa hia neck had been brok-
en. He lived about twenty min-
utes after the ehooting
Justice Kenner was notified
and took charge of the body and
had the remains taken to the un-
dertaking room of W. A. Bills,
where the inquest was held. She-
riff Griffin empaneled a jury con
aisting of Page Nelson, S. H.
Copeland, D. C. Hurley, G.
Corlett, G. W. Wheeler and M
H. Gunsenhouaer, who, after ex-
amining Deputy Sheriff Brown
Moae Griffin, Jim McGinleyand
John Thompson, rendered a ver-
dict tUt the deoeaaed came to
hia death from a gunahot wound
aaid pistol being in tha handaef
Jaaa Cartwright.
So far aa we hare bean able to
toarn tha cauae of the trouble
depaty aheriC, la
wHh him aadatartod down
Mi «•
and the man who did II
iag we are lead to the oooolaafaa
lhal both wore williag to eagagt
with a "battle lo death" at ear
lima. Yet Marahal Cartwright
resUssd hia foaitkm
wining to beck off and sate tree
bis rather than ilo make a show
of hie ottckfl importance dad of
his fear of bodily injury,
Southworth preaaed him so
closely that it waa either shoot
or run and ha fired the shot that
deprived one of oar beat oitisens
of life.
Aa a juror of the coroner in-
queet, we are at a loss to diSoo*-
er why any Wiling should hare
occurred at all.
Otto Bauer, it seems visited
the peel hall, on the north sMe
ofthe square, where marshal
Cartwright had just sat down in
to a game of friendly pitoh and
tapping him (the marshal) on the
shoulder, said he wanted to speak
to him. Cartwright got up Irom
the table and stepped to one side
where Bauer told him some
tting, which, so far aa we have
been able to loaro, no one over-
beard, and the marshal thinking
perhaps that something was
wrong, celled to Tom Brown, the
partftae reached tha "chilli Joint"
it Main street, ran by Jim
McGialey, where Bauer ia re*
ported?*) have said, "Jess you
have made me take things haok I
have eaid, hareiaa mm whe oaye
yea im horse thief and will n&t
it back." Baaer opsaed
the door and invited the offloer
to go in bat the latter said, "No
I do not want any trouble " At
Lee Southworth and Carl
Bauer, the latter a brother Otto,
oame out aad the former etarted
tor Cartwright, with an evident
intent of having troabie. Mar
Cartwright aaid, "Keep
away from me, I did not come
down here for trouble," aad kept
backing away from Southworth.
Otto Baaer elipped a knife
from hia pocket and made an at-
tempt to get in behind Cart-
wright, who a as alive to every
condition that came up, fully re-
alising that the men who oppoeed
him would rather kill htm than
not, eaid to Tom Brown, who waa
with him, "to watoh Otto, he
has a knife." At this time South-
worth wae pressing the marahal
who kept telling him to
beck, but when Southworth got
too dose, he (the marahal) fired
the fatal shot, which took effect
ia the throat, braking the neck.
Another shot took effect jaat
over the heart, passing upward,
lodging beneath the a
tween the ehoulder Wadee. An-
al struck the watoh.
which he carried in the pooket of
a pair of bib overalle, shooting
off the stem aad not toeohing
the body at all, eo far as could
be discovered by the doctors,
Kerlej and others, or the cor-
oners jury, who made a careful
examination. Either of these
shots would have caused death.
These occurences are deplora-
ble and have a bad effect upon
the town and coramunitv in
which they occur, yet so long as
men place personal grievances
above every thing else, just so
long will such things occur.
Lee Southworth had a griev
ance against Jesse Csrtwaight,
wnether justifiable or not, we
are not here to decide, but it was
there and at all times upper-
moot and only awaited an oppor-
tunity to make iteelf manifest
in eome injury upon Cart-
wright. When called oat of the
Chilli joint by the oonverealion
of hia brother-in-law, Bauer aad
Cartwright he came out with
the evident intention of taking a
head ia the fraoea aad did
with the reeult that ha loal hie
life, with no one reepoual We eeve
Otlo Baaer who went after Oart-
I and oallad him to
of the kilUag.
Why he did this be alone knows
bat the reaah of hia workahoakd
be a leeaon which ahoeld have aa
ng imyreea apon hie'fa
tare,aadif poeeible tfikaa ball
lor and more careful man. Us
8outhworth waa a good mat, re-
ss vests'
hood and dcaerved a far
lata than in thia instaaoe.
G6e HeroJd-Servtinel.
M «. GVNMNMOUSE&.
luued Every Wrid*y Mormftmg.
el *e ftsMtas m OwML OMsl
OH! FACTIOIIt N tLANKCD.
That ia eaaential. There ia no reaaoo why the RepubU
cans of Oklahoma should not have harmony. Wt hare oert-
ainlyhave had plenty of the other sort of stuff. And, let us
be fair to admit that we have ell contributed our full share to
thin result We ought, therefore, to be satisfied. Suppoae
commence over, and do no nt once. There are more Re-
publican in Oklahoma, than there are of all other nortn of
men put together. The Republican pnrty can control if it
will An analyain of the reaflt of the recent election proven
s. We have had our quarrels, 1st un have them no longer.
They have aettled nothings quarrels never do nettle any
thing. They enable our enemies to triumph. Suppone we
date thia reformation about the 20th of January, but begin
to get ournelves in line for it now. We have got no time to
spare. Forget the peat, or, if we cannot wholly forget it,
remember it only aa a joke. A big, foolish, ailly joke. Thia
thing of remembering tbingn ia unprofitable anyhow. Re-
member only the good and forget the bad. If the Republi-
cans of Oklahoma con only oome together in the spirit, the
next election will result in s Republican victory. We hnve
gone too far with thia thing nlready. But, in the nature of
things, this irruption hsd to come. So there iano uae to fret
over the matter any longer, and we cannot afford to numa it
and keep it alive. Let factions and factionistn be eteranlly
and forever blsnked.— Hornet
iu
-Hi
C.W.1
NO.
City National Bank.
BCBCCOCOa
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The tradegy which occurred on our streets lant Saturday
night a ould serve ss s lesion tc some ot our people, who
entertain grudges against their fellow man because of aosoe
fancied grievance. It should be a note of warning to our
pence officers, who go around day after day with n piatot
strapped to them by a belt filled with cartridge* All thia in
unnecessary to promote peace and quietude, in fhet it begets
trouble, aa the average American citisen ia "from Mieeouri"
and have a desire to be shown. Men should cultivate n mote
amicable diapositioo, one towards the other. Do tans
man is big and strong he hss no moral or legal right to jump
onto hia weaker brother and putomel him up, but how often
do they doit—use that which the good God gave them to pun-
ish a brother who hae not shared ao bountifully the hleneiwge
of his-creator. Tbeoffioial, clothed with authority by hie
brother, oftmea uses that authority to intimidate the man,
who, by his vote, clothed him with the power ao dona. Lee
Southworth was a powerful man, clothed by his creator with
abundant strength snd endurance. Cartwright, clothed by
his brothers with authority, felt equal to cope with any and
all comers. Each man was willing and anxious to meet the
other, the one relying on his strength, given to him by his
creator, the other depending upon the authority conferred on
him by a vote of the people. They met' and what of the re-
sult?. If you do not like it do your best 10 change it
ooo
A letter from B. E. Bryant, who represents two-thirds
of Washita county in the constitutional convention, to Judge
Richard A. Billups, states that he (Bryant) is unalterably
opposed to a division of any of the counties of ^Oklahoma by
the constitutional convention. Mr. Bryant is right and we
are glad to commend him for the position he has taken.
ooo
We hear nothing of Bryant in the constitutional conven-
tion at all. Now Herring, our "thirder" seemn inclined to
earn his compensation by roasting the press, because some
editor has seen fit to say something about him, Hersaesup
on his imaginary dignity and refusesQto divulge the name of
the paper, but intimates that its editor was the reeult of a
jamboree in n Weatherford uhonkm tonk" We dcfei't know
what a "honk a tonk" is but our uone-thirderr seems to heap
in thie kind of lore.
I
Robert Steele,
Bonded Absti
OOO
The oonetitutionnl convention
ooo
to be in
Some of the democrstio membem of the constitutional
convention are kicking against the prees. Thiaischamctnr-
istic with all grafters.
•ooo
The firing oy President Roaevelt, of a couple ofnsgro
companies from the regular army eeema to have aroused a
love fdr the blaok man in the breasts of nome men, whenever
before evinced any regard for the colored man.
Sworn Statement of the Condition of
The Bank of F. C. Finerty & Co.,
Cordell. Ok., u rendered to the Benlt Commieeiooer et the clooc of busineM.
NOVEMBER 20.1900.
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Copeland & Bewley
Art giving tha boat tarmaon PARW1
1 to write Iniurance, fttrnlih
and MO an kinds of Real Batata.
RESOURCES.
Losns and Discounts
Overdrafts *
Real estate, furniture
fixtures
Cash on hand
Total -
$86,783,57.
5,328.69.
id
2,813.74.
$152,247,69
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
Surplus *
Undivided Profits
Deposits
Total -
$ 10,000.00.
5,000.00.
11,945.06.
$220,228.90
$247,I loul IMM7M*.
Tke above Sutrtnent U Correct—J. A. JULIEN, Cukier.
It Yon want to Qln at tha
Best Gin Washita Co
Try tha New Oln at Cordell
If you are "from Mlsaourl, oome and
WE WILL SHOW Y
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At The Farmers' and Merchant* Qln.
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Gunsenhouser, M. H. The Herald-Sentinel. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1906, newspaper, December 7, 1906; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc169117/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.