Dow Braziel was not a U.S. Marshal at the time of his death
when he was
killed by the police chief of Ardmore, Leslie L. Segler and Carter
County Deputy
Bud Ballew January 31, 1919. It all happen around 6:40 am
in the
California Cafe at Mill and Main Streets here in Ardmore.
There
is a plaque in the sidewalk as a memorial to that event in front
of what is now Stolfa Brothers Hardware store. Deputy
Bud Ballew
was killed by the police chief of Wichita Falls, Texas in 1922,
after he and his son went down there to see the rodeo.
And police
chief Segler was shot and killed in Ft Worth, Texas not many
months
after Dow Braziel was killed, by Dow's brother Bob Braziel.