Crime News from McIntosh
County, OK
Muskogee, OK., Jan 19—Lee Capps, 20 years old, was shot and killed at his home at Brush Hill, a few miles southwest of Checotah, Ok., last evening, and the Coroner's jury returned a verdict today that he had come to his death by a gunshot wound administered by D. F. Killingsworth, a Deputy Sheriff. Killingsworth and Capps were brothers-in-law and quarreled. Killingsworth was arrested. He will plead self-defense.
(Source: The Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, January 20, 1910 - Submitted by Cathy Danielson)
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