Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
December 30, 1921OIL FIELD WORKER
AT SAPULPA KILLED
Two Stepchildren Are. Held For, Investigation
SAPULPA, Dec. :O.—Fred Lewis, oil field worker, 45 years old,
was killed Instantly and Leonard Connor and Rose Tolley, his
stepchildren, are in the county jail for investigation in
connection with the shooting which occurred five miles southeast
of here Thursday.
According to statements of the affair made at the sheriff's
office, Lewis had his wife had agreed to separate and Lewis grew
angry,, flourishing a gun, when his wife began moving household
goods away.
in the quarrel, it is said that followed between Connor: and
Lewis, Rosie Tolley tried to separate the men and was hurled
across a bed. She is reported to have pulled a revolver from
under the mattress and shot Lewis.
... Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2010.
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