Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-18 | Page 2 | Three Killed in Pistol Duel

THREE KILLED IN PISTOL DUEL Br DI Frets Frees MADILL Okla Okia July 18 Three 18 Three men were killed in a Sunday pistol duel In a n drug store stor here one of the trio being Wiley WHey LYnn Lynn acquitted eight years ago of ot the slaying of Bill Bm Tilghman pioneer peace officer Crockett Long operative of the thc state bureau of criminal Identification tion fell feU with four bulletin his s body fired officers said by Lynn Long tired fired from the thc hip as he fell feU mortally mortally mor mor- tally wounding Lynn who died this morning in a hospital Rhody Watkins a farm boy struck by y a bullet as he stood at the thc soda fountain died In an Ardmore hOWl hospi al tal early carly today without regaining consciousness John Milburn a bystander was wu hit lit by the thc fire but was not seriously wounded The shooting was believed by Investigators investigators In in- to have climaxed a feeing feelIng feel feel- in Ing ng of bitterness against Long former for former mer chief chiet of ot police here who once arrested Lynn Lynnon on a liquor charge Eyewitnesses said tho the shooting started when Lynn who apparently lad had been drinking walked into the drug store shouting Crockett Long throw em up Im I'm to g get t you some ome time land and it might as well be now noVo Lynn formerly a federal prohibition lion ion agen agent shot hot the colorful plainsman plainsman plains plains- man Tilghman to d ath In front of ot a alance lance hall ball at Cromwell boom oil town own He was vas acquitted on the thc grounds of d self