Algy Sandridge was shot and killed by Albert Murphy
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Algy Sandridge was shot and killed by Albert Murphy
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Posted: 8 Feb 2008 9:09PM GMT |
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Appears in "The Wapanucka Press" 5 May 1904, Wapanucka, Johnston County, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma
NEGRO FARMER SHOT
Two Colored Men Get Into Quarrel Over Stock
Holdenville: Albert Murphy a colored farmer living seven miles north of Wewoka, in the Seminole Nation, shot and killed Algy Sandridge, also colored. The shooting resulted from an altercation over some horses and mules of Murphy’s which Sandridge had taken up. Sandridge was shot with a shotgun and died instantly. Word of the affair was carried to Wewoka, and United States Marshal John Cordell immediately took the trail of the murderer, and after a hard chase succeeded in capturing him twelve miles north of Wewoka at midnight of the same day.
NEGRO FARMER SHOT
Two Colored Men Get Into Quarrel Over Stock
Holdenville: Albert Murphy a colored farmer living seven miles north of Wewoka, in the Seminole Nation, shot and killed Algy Sandridge, also colored. The shooting resulted from an altercation over some horses and mules of Murphy’s which Sandridge had taken up. Sandridge was shot with a shotgun and died instantly. Word of the affair was carried to Wewoka, and United States Marshal John Cordell immediately took the trail of the murderer, and after a hard chase succeeded in capturing him twelve miles north of Wewoka at midnight of the same day.