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Oklahoman Archives 
              Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
             
September  13, 1917

BRAUGHT MURDER TRIAL HAS BEGUN
        Defendant, Former Deputy Sheriff
          Accepted for National Army

Tibbets Roy Braught

SAPULPA, Okla., Sept. 12.—(Special)— Selection of a jury to determine whether T. R, Braught, former Creek county deputy sheriff charged with the murder of Ote Robins whom he shot and killed after an all night orgie in the "jungleland" roadhouse near Oilton,  July 1; shall die, in the electric chair, be sentenced to a long prison term or allowed to go to France with the new national army, was begun this afternoon in the *district court today.

       Accepted For Service.
Braught passed a perfect physical test when he appeared before the local exemption board and has received one of the little red. cards notifying him that he has been accepted and to hold himself in readiness to go to Camp Travis at a minutes notice:. He begged to be allowed to go with the troops but County Attorney. Earl Foster refused, and said today he would demand the death penalty for, the former official.

Picking of a jury was begun late this afternoon and the trial will be underway, early tomorrow morning. Not since the celebrated Reuter case, has a murder trial excited so much attention in Creek county and this section of the county as that of Braught. The court room was packed, all day waiting for the trial to begin

Wife has been Slain.
Since he has been confined in the county jail here Draught's wife was shot and killed, by Buck Davis in her room at a rooming house, she managed, in Drumright. Davis and Draught were confined in the same bastille for a short time when Davis was unable to make bond following a habeas corpus proceeding.


What Braught's defense will be has not been made known. He has not talked of the killing since he has been in jail here and his attorneys have given no hint as to what the defense will be. The county attorney' believes that self defense will be the plea.

Should he win his liberty, Braught will be assigned to go with the second increment of men from this section of the county to Camp Travis on September 9.

More articles pertaining to Braught

 

Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 14, 1917

Sapulpa; Okla.; Oct. 13-(Special.)-T. R. Braught, former Creek county deputy. sheriff who is sentenced to die in the electric chair in the state penitentiary November 23 still hopes to avoid capital punishment through habeas corpus proceedings,. which are to be presented to the. state court of criminal appeals.

Braught was convicted of the murder of Ote Robins in an Oilton garage following, a night of revelry at the notorious "Hump" roadhouse. He is now in the state penitentiary.

Braught is 26 years old and had been drawn for service in the national army; Physicians on the examining board pronounced him physically perfect.

Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
May 08, 1919

FIRST WHITE MAN MAY GO TO CHAIR

Oilton Murderer of Boy Is Slated for the Death Penalty

Unless- Governor Robertson Intervenes with executive clemency, T. R. Braught, convicted in the district court of Creek county on a charge of murder, will die in the electric chair at McAlester on the morning of Friday, May 23.

Record Received
        The criminal court of appeals, in an opinion by Judge James R. Armstrong, affirmed the death sentence and the record of the case was transmitted to the executive office yesterday for review whether Braught had a fair trial and if all his rights were granted. The record is being review by Judge O. H. Searcy, pardon and parole officer; who will Make his report to the governor in a day or two.

Braught was convicted of the murder of Ottis Robbins, who is referred to in the record by witnesses as "a boy." The killing occurred in a garage at Oilton. According to witnesses Robbins and Braught were friends and met at a road house a few miles from Oilton. 'Without provocation," it said, Braught "brutally". beat Robbins' and then made him ride in the car with him to Oilton. When they reached the garage Robbins remained in the front seat of the car, bleeding and suffering from the beating alleged to have been administered by Draught.

Shoots Him Dead.
        According to witnesses, Braught began cursing and abusing Robbins finally telling him he was going to kill him and handing Robbins a gun to defend himself with. Robbins protested that he was Draught's "best friend:" that he did not want to fight with him, and while pleading for his life Braught shot him in the left side killing him almost instantly, it is said.

After this, according to witnesses, Braught lined four of the eye witnesses up against the wall, and at the point of revolvers that he held in each hand made them promise to say he acted in self-defense which was his plea at the trial.

First White
       Friends of Braught have started a campaign to arouse sentiment in his favor, as scores of telegrams poured into the executive office yesterday addressed to the governor, "praying" and "begging" for clemency' for Braught.

If  Braught is electrocuted he will...  rest is not readable

Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October , 1917, pg 9

BRAUGHT SENTENCED TO DIE IN NOVEMBER
Called for Army Duty; Substitute Selected.

SAPULPA, Okla.. Oct. l (Special.) —District Judge E. B, Hughes has sentenced T. R. Braught, former Creek county deputy sheriff and convicted of the murder of Ote Robins, to die in the electric chair at McAlester, November 23.

Rumors that plans had been laid by friends to lake Braught from jail prompted Sheriff John Woofter to appoint outside guards until he can be removed to the state prison.

Braught heard the date on which he must die uttered by the court without an outward sign of emotion and when the judge asked him if he had anything to say as to why sentence should not be pronounced, answered "No."

Shortly after he had been taken hack to his cell he received a notice that he had been designated to go to Camp Travis with the next draft contingent from this county October 3. Later in the day the exemption board named a substitute to go in his place.

Complied and Submitted by Marti Graham ©1996-2013

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Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2011.

 

 



 
  

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