Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-07 | Page 2 | Texas Gun Fighter Killed by Sheriff

ie TEXAS GUN GU FIGHTER FIGHTE KILLED BY SHE SHERIFF lFF fl I Officer Shoots Ranger Ex With Submachine I Gun lt i m a Br Associated Press Prell i RANKIN Texas Dee Dec 7 Graham 7 Barnett Darnett 41 1 a former Texas ranger range t.- t. noted for tor his speed on the draw drw was wasI I 1 killed by Sheriff W. W C. C Fowler of ot Up Upton ton county with a submachine gun yesterday The sheriff who poured a stream of ot shots hots at the motor car of at the victim vie vic tim from a a. window of his own machine machine ma ma- chine Intimated a dispute over a financial matter led to the shooting Barnett dropped dead from seven bullet wounds without firing any of ot the four tOur weapons including a cal caI iber automatic pistol with which he WM was Armed He had been a deputy sheriff town marshal and special of of- of fleer as well as a ranger I I had bad to do It Sheriff Sheri Fowler said It was either cither he or me He made a a gun Sheriff Fowler was vas charged with murder and released under bond The El Paso Times quoted the sheriff sherif as saying saying- Barnett who lived in Alpine Texas had sought to obtain obtain ob ob- ob- ob tain faIn a loan from froni him Friday I 1 declined to advance Barnett the money he requested Fowler said and he became angry The Thc shooting occurred on the main street of this little village Bame Barnett Barnet t who is survived by h his widow and five children made a reputation rep rep- as a marksman In his youth At 18 he killed Will wm Rabb in Lang Lang- Langtry try Texas He Ho was tried and acquitted acquit ted as he also was in the death of Noisy Watson Vatron in 1925 in Reagan county