John Henry Vier DUSM
DEPUTY MARSHAL IS SHOT
While Trailing Hog Thieves He Is Fired Upon by Indian and Bullet Pierces Heart
February 23, 1905—Dallas Morning News—Siloam Springs, Arkansas—John Henry Vier, Deputy United States Marshal of Indian Territory, has been shot and killed in the Territory, sixteen miles west of here , by Charley Wyckley, a Cherokee Indian.
Vier, with a posse, was hunting hog thieves and stopped at the home of an Indian named Hogshooter. Vier stepped to the door to investigate, when a shot was fired, the bullet piercing the heart of Vier, causing instant death.
Wyckley escaped. He is wanted for the shooting of a deputy Marshal over a year ago. (Wyckely—Wycliff?)
William Moody DUSM
DEPUTY MARSHAL KILLED
The Eighteenth Killed Under the Present Marshal—Two Men Do the Deed
March 16, 1889—Dallas Morning News—Fort Smith, Arkansas—Deputy United States Marshal William Moody was killed today at Tulsa, I. T., by two men, it is alleged, named Berryhill and Barnes. Moody was one of the most daring and efficient officer on the force in this district. He was in the territory endeavoring to effect the capture of Santopeka of the Wesley Barnett gang, for whom there is a reward of $500 and it is supposed the men who killed him are friends to these parties.