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IndexThomas Taylor DUSM
DEPUTY MARSHAL KILLED
October 14, 1900--Dallas Morning News--Guthrie, OK--Thomas Taylor, one of the oldest and best known deputy marshals in Oklahoma, was shot and killed by a desperado whom he had arrested in the Osage Nation at Pawnee this afternoon. The murderer was recaptured.
Sam Sarreb DUSM
(I think spelling is incorrect, but it is spelled as it appear in newspaper)
BODY IS IDENTIFIED
Man Who Killed Deputy Marshal Sam Sarreb Was Sam L. Morley
Rewards For His Capture
They Aggregated Over Three Thousand Dollars—Regarded As Most Desperate Man In Oklahoma
January 14, 1903—Dallas Morning News—South McAlester, I. T.—Sheriff George Smith and District Attorney B. F. Wolf of Norman, Oklahoma, have fully identified the body of the bandit who killed Sam Sarreb, a Deputy Marshal, at Spiro on January 3, as that of Sam L. Morley, wanted for the murder of Sheriff Jacob Hartman of El Reno and for whom rewards aggregating over $3,000 were offered. The officers were here this mooring on their way home from Spiro, where they had the body exhumed for purposes of identification.
Morley was guilty of three murders prior to his fatal encounter with Deputies Sarreb and Ralph Scargill. He killed a butcher in San Antonio several years ago, killed man at Chickasha and then killed Sheriff Hartman.
He was regarded as the most desperate character in Oklahoma. When Scargill attempted to arrest him near Spiro he threw up his left hand as if to surrender and fired under it with his right. After he had received two mortal shots he raised himself and killed Sarreb and wounded Scargill.
Mr. Wolf thinks that Morley’s champion, who made his escape, was a young desperado against whom several crimes are charged.