Sam Turner To Give Up Horse

Jan 5, (UP)-Bill, faithful horse that has carried Sam Turner, pioneer Hughes county peace officer on numerous manhunts through impenetrable parts of eastern Oklahoma, will be ready for service in event his master is named U. S. Marshal for the Eastern Oklahoma District. Turner is an applicant for the position when federal patronage plums are dispensed after the democratic administration goes into office. And, Turner says, he will not forsake the saddle of his favorite horse.

The pioneer Holdenville officer has received the support of several influential Democrats for the position, it was learned here. Turner was elected Hughes County Sheriff just before the United States entered the World War, after serving for a time as deputy. He was sheriff for four terms. He was elected president of the Oklahoma Peace Officers' Association. During his tenure of office he aided in the arrest of some of Oklahoma's most notorious outlaws, including the Kimes brothers who recently broke into headlines again when they were present at the shooting of an escaped convict at Seminole.

Former Gov. W. J. Holloway appointed Turner head of the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. He served in that position three years before retiring to return to the livestock business in Hughes County.

Clark Wasson, Muskogee, now holds the post of U. S. Marshal for the Eastern Oklahoma District.