Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-31 | Page 5 | Cattlemen Killed in Fight with Officers

Cattlemen Killed in Fight With Officers TAMPA Fla., Jan. 31. In a battle between cattle raiders and deputy sheriffs in Polk county, three well-known well-known cattlemen were killed and a fourth captured. Tho officers claim they caught tho cattlemen cutting wire fences surrounding the vast tract of phosphate land of the American Agricultural Ag-ricultural Chemical company. For a number of years there has been ill feeling among the cattle raisers rais-ers over the encroachment of fences on tho cattle ranges of southern Florida Flor-ida and largo land owners had complained com-plained of their fences being mysteriously myster-iously cut at frequent intervals. According to Deputy Sheriffs Newton New-ton Hatcher and Snm Williams, thc throe men were killed in a battle with tho two sheriffs when they surprised them in the act of cutting the fence They wcro called to surrender, thc deputies claim, und one of tho cattlemen cattle-men opened fire and tho pitched battlo followed. Tho surviving cattle raiser Is said to have confessed. Tho dead are: T. W. Albritton, a large cattle owner, known as "Tinker Tom," his brother A. J, Albritton and Hiram D. Alderman. Jesse Albritton, son of T. W. Albritton was captured.