Show foe of bad men killed by drunk famous oklahoma marshal brought scores score of bandits bandit to justice oklahoma city cily Elmi hundred deed of times it during bis bid 51 Y years yeara as arch h to foe of the bw lawless element in oklahoma bill hilgh tilghman an faced t the he blazing bidding go guns of book back bandit train real robb rob bobbera bera ro murderers dis cattle mailers be rod and similar shaller gentry fewer III siring 11 dg bullet for bullet and almost invariably bringing in his hia mom man A i boteo t adiano perhaps fifteen criminal met death at hla him hard hands do dozens were sr winged I 1 by his unerring fire scored of proved bad men surrendered without a shot m rather their th than face his marks mark P zd hip and then them at ten on an the night of no november vember 1 a small email touring car b bearing eari two men and two women omen careened down the principal street t or of cc cromwell well black blackest it spot pat in oklahoma A oil 11 fields field and ad came a to a top atop la A front t aioo of M ma murphy a danes dance hall ball one of I 1 vw the men stepped to the grac ground cul drew draw a 1 revolver ibm and fired ed down the street A apparently without I 1 a lure target he A RA was I 1 la alls gait it witnesses said said train from liquor TU tin then marshal ol of crom crew gh well ell at a month the be Illi highest diest ader ever 1 1 paid I idapence a peace officer I 1 in ok r lahoma stepped ale d from the done dance hall bull to quell the new disturbance he grappled with ith the offender and it snatched away his gun gow never attempting to draw his bis a we own weapon th the d dis however whipped out a second secand r volver revolver a fired filed three them shots hot into the b body dy of f the officer leaped into his him for ear and sped away my how tilghman mot met end half of cromwell gave chase the other halt half stayed to help tilghman tillghman b but or in 15 minutes the dean of oklahoma a in law enforcers relentless ter me for ol of hiie criminal element and ad flione lend and idol of children w was as dd dad d ad d with tits his boots boot on cu wylye wyly a linn lim a federal prohibition an A effiec sam arrested armsted soon afterward d and confessed to the shooting his him companions P anions also were ron captured lion linn will face trial tor for first best degree murder with will A death puit passed the last and greatest of oklahoma Okla homas plo pio neer beer peace officers whose lives be have v been glim ghen entirely to the war against crime within the conn cond es of okli lost homa indian india scout plainsman V anted ted states state mantal state stale senator who put much of the power into oklahoma s criminal code and one time chief of police of okla oklahoma A lit city y he led a life more thrilling than many lesser lights whose names have beco become A household words for hilgh man withal was extremely t ely in modest alze ep ring quiet spoken and d sparing a of words always willing to dim discuses horses bond and it farming but ile never willing to discuss discus hi candit exploits plaits or of al I 1 whose whom gang or of trul train robbers robber tilghman TUg timon broke up of bud bild bellew ballew two gun sheriff herl of 1 carter cache call county ty who fell be for fore the fire of a T texas ranger maker frank al canton the man who did the most to wipe ipe out cattle rustling 1 in the rod and whose go gun wom many Y tits times spoke death to desperadoes pale into mediocrity beside the daring performs arms of acl uncle bill tilghman put at al jowly jennings lot into the penitentiary and it it drove him bis gang to the four our winds wind he be broke up the italian dalton band and we was is 1 in the front floor rank it when vie the pitched be battle tits was fought that re in the droth of most of the dal to ton cohorts 11 he disrupted vie the henry 1 abtam band of book bank rubber robbers putting four 1 in the ile prem penitentiary and it we was on tits hla way to capture I 1 detarr are himself who when the notorious bond bandit it was slain A I 1 DY by au ad ark arkansas no bank P resident president during a holdup he brought hd to justice every member her of the be band who was not killed to in battle b by y peace officers tie he convert converted dodge edg city K kana th the 22 loth wildest let wi widest deal open P er moat 1 murderous town 1 in the world into a virtual sunday school to in t three hem years yeam and ad them seemed earned his apu reputation ia aa in the dealue I 1 nd ad the most during daring A man ain in the southwest mat showed no par fear of death F frequently al u antly tal A exploit Amplo ln border on an the too foolhardy hardy O once OM M who when tr trailing alling the curtin gang of train and it bank bandits he be led him bis posse inside to min hall half a wit mile ol of their dump camp HB ba left his him men behind while lie he went want head ahead to and ad misjudging the strength of the rubber robber bond band undertook bernick to make the capture single landed banded be succeeded in reaching the cowboy hut in which they were spend spending g the night but ahel when I 1 he stepped th through raigh the door he be imbed lot into the ritel muzzles of till leveled red a at t him from flood six mix bunks another re second and it him career carder would how have beam been ended for here were num men for or all of who whom a A noose A waited tied bill DOOR doolan the leader however leaped to the floor with it a command to his him men not to shoot and in 1 split second amond tilghman was out of 11 the door and ad go gone he elm led him bis P posse back but my 0 course caurs the handled bandits had eket de departed A ed nastily and in a lout range running rifle battle next day we mad of it the a dolln gang ws waa killed S several went ears care I 1 later ter M out of gratitude to doolin risked his him own life ill to capt capture dealin alive rather than kill 11 11 him in he 1 trailed mail lot into bl arkansas n staged managed to secrete Re crets himself in the ie robbers rol wr room to at a hotel and imbel bial when A doolin entered mid greeted him elm with drawn revolver doolan had bad BW acore orn he over never would be captured alive and would patched out on lip his own trun am shot it rewn from hid big hand bond took boulb hok lt bach to to oklahoma to 1 Is be hanged and it saw vur that all ai of doolin a df effects rort and it money were turned over to hla b j A widow bud and child si at another time tilghman surprised A gang of cattle rustlers convinced them hn by a ruse rome that they were A sur rounded by a large posse of cowboys and captured the entire band without firing bring a men were wan never nale moie disgusted than they when they dincov ered how they had bad hem been taken take in and this was the one and walent tort dent ot at hta him career that liked to tell about he elm regarded it as ag a huge joke jake when trouble came tilghmon lehow never waited tor for aid he etc was A in a tiny prairie town one day looking to for a murd murderer me ohm nhen three ho horsemen menter adept down on the town bank and held it up Til aughman ghow saw the commotion ono tim a block aw away y ran to the scene meme and engaged the abe t three h e to in a pistol battle killed one wounded one and killed the third one ones horse hobe 8 as do tried 1 I ed to escape up the wound wounded man wea recovered vered and it he and it his m companion penton went to the insulter alary ry the town mard marshal lial never put in an appearance during the melee mid enco succeeded medd 1 in 0 p st M littion Mit tion 1 o three presidents president of the united states stated bud and every governor of okla wan homa except one me at some time called on an tilghman for special fluty body tt it always alway was waa come borne des desperate pente mission let and ad ne neer er did tilghman tail fail to bring in his nw roan live alive if p possible this but dead it if necessary at one me time president ro roose velt sent him into mexico maxim tor for a murderer tilghman penetrated miles into the southern republic got his bis roan in and ad brought him bak back to the united states dis mexico never even protested officially effig al y no a less e ss spectacular than tb his him war on criminals criminal was tilghman s service ele e le against the indians indiana during the 70 a he was um only twenty years 7 d med old when uh A be first saw bervice amerle in 1 the cheyenne and arapahoe Arap aboe v war ar in 1874 and he also 1 bought through the campaign ol of 1878 when dull do knife and ad his him follow ers are left the reservation at fort sill rod and plundered the frontiers of kansas and it nebraska Ne home and all his bid possessions possess lond were burned by the marauders and the memory of it made his aim ad a little truer letter and hla him est bat for far the in light fight a little hut keener ile some of 1 it bis eold experiences during the indian wars wan haw have been made the basis of novels novel for far it was he be who rode 75 miles mile through an indian infested country for far troops loop and it led ile them to 1 the relief of a beleaguered beleaguer ed settlement battlement the mr cavalry actually arrived in the nick ilk of time tor for the log blockhouse was in B flanig A aws 8 halt bell ot 1 the defend defenders era were ad dead and the indians indiana were forming ime for a final rush all when the team troopers swe wept pt down on them only a remnant or of the be indian bid band escaped and hilgh me man tracked th them tor far days day until they finally exuded him at another other time tilghman and two brother scouts were surprised by a m rowing ing bond band of red no marauders wid and ad for forty fairly eight hours homes long fought h t off attack after attack their dad horses borses served ad as breastwork unable to in break through the din deadly fily fire are of 1 the arnold and fearing to tarry I 1 long aig enough to starve them out the in dim deans withdrew leaving behind A dodd doben dead one me of the scouts was killed and ad tilghman and his hia companion in war were slightly blight ly wounded they burled their catu rade outsmarted the indians by stealing two ponies fee from the them during the night and reached safety nov never sacrificed life aside from bill indian wars it we wax mid aal of tilghman that be never r toot took II A human bottom life unless it on was necessary to an save his fits oun on n scores of times time brother officers mean him for fil placing his him life and theirs in jeoma dy because of hla him humm to shoot on OD sight yet they never could influence hsio him but he be waa mm clettles clent les I 1 ID his him task and never else ab abandoned am d on e d th the a chase andl his him man we was dead or 1 la prison prism even though he might be com 1 to tur turn his attention elsewhere tor far I 1 the he time being uncle uie bill tilghman ana A death cast at a pall over oklahoma split by the bill bitterest met political light fight IR in it its history the state forgot ltd its battees hatreds when via the news dewa of his big murder we was flashed and it from all factions billions arose u A a tribute to the doom dean of oklahoma p peace am officers meer the man who met find and conquered nor more bad men a than any two officers in the southwest awl and perhaps in the world the man whose mere a presence in ill town tumbled enabled women n and adre to sleep peacefully and caused retail no nals to sit other leads A governor two former go governors gomon mon a united stated senator ministers minister widows of 0 men whose whole marde murderers mur derera m m be had brought m to lue lik aught justice and m men in all walks of life joined in do doing 9 honor boom to him and in pouring a flood of condolences on the widow and the children he hell H be missed by all 11 the boys boy I 1 in the neighborhood his arld widow says they all knew him and liked him and he be always had bad time to listen idiom to their troubles lm share their joys adv advise tie them show them why hit this cobrae com or me that wais waa right point out the tolly folly ol of unfairness or dis dishonor bonor and help them it if they were in trouble he really was gladder I 1 bellegie to persuade a boy to do the manly thing than to catch a murde murderer me 1 I have sat ant by my window and heard beard groups of boys go by discussing all some proposal heatedly if one me re marked well weh uncle bill billy would old do so BO and ad a so that settled it they did a as uncle billy would do neur mew york herald tribune tribunal |