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Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 26, 1917
 

WOMEN MURDERED AT DRUMRIGHT

Former Sweetheart Is Accused of Shooting;
Posse in Pursuit.

DRUMRIGHT,- ( July 25. - Special.)—Mrs. T. R. Braught, wife of former deputy sheriff who is now in jail at Sapulpa charged with murdering Ote Robins at Oilton on the morning of July 1, was shot and killed here tonight by a man said to be Buck Davis, an oil driller. He made his escape into the hills north of here and is pursed by a posse of armed men.

Mrs. Braught was proprietor of a local hotel. Davis was a former sweetheart. Jealousy is said to have been he cause of the shooting. He is said to have entered a room where the woman was talking to one of her roomer and, without warning, to have pulled a pistol and fired point-blank at the woman, three times. The first bullet pierced her heart and she fell to the floor dead. Two other shots were fired into her body.
 

 


 

Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 28, 1917

Search Extended for Buck Davis

No Trace of Man Accused of Woman's murder at Drumright, Found.

SAPULPA, July 27.--The search for Buck Davis, who shot and killed Mrs. T. R. Braught al Drumright Wednesday night and escaped, has assumed a statewide scope, but no trace of the accused man had been found up to a late hour tonight.

Davis is a brother of Joe Davis, who once operated with the Henry Starr gang and who is now serving a sentence for a daring train holdup last summer.

T. R. Braught, husband of the slain woman, who is held in the Creek county on a charge, of murdering Oto Robins at Oilton July 1, was taken to Drumright yesterday by Sheriff Woofter and two deputies, and collapsed when he saw her body in the morgue.

Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but it is thought burial will be at Afton, in which event Draught will he allowed to attend under heavy guard.
 


 

 

 

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