The Daily Oklahoman
04-11-1911
p.4

BRIDLE CAUSE OF FATAL SHOOTING

Albert Taylor Slain Near Marietta - Four Men Held for Crime

Ardmore, Okla., April 10 -(Special)-

Albert Taylor, who for years has labored under the
hallucination that the banks of the Red river kept
in hiding a vast wealth of buried gold, and who has
made many excavations along the banks of the stream,
was shot and killed today six miles west of Marietta.
Dick Rogers and three sons and a man named Hensley are
in the Love county jail at Marietta accused of the
crime.

The trouble which led to the shooting came up over
the disputed ownership of a bridle. The Rogers men
are alleged to be keepers of a joint on Rock creek.
Taylor was an inoffensive and seemingly, at times, a
half-witted man. Ause Rogers is alleged to have done
the shooting.


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