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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