DESPERADOES SHOT
Submitted by: Mollie Stehno

A Troublesome Band of Negro Desperadoes in the Indian Territory Exterminated.

June 11, 1885- June 8-Yesterday morning at Post Oak Grove, thirty miles west of this place, Captain Sam Sixkiller, with Policemen Laftore, Murray and Gooden, and C. M. McClellan, a prominent stockman of the Cherokee Nation, were in pursuit of a band of Negroes, headed by the notorious desperado, Dick Glass, who had been to Denison for a wagon load of whiskey and were on their way back to the Seminole Nation. The officers had with them a colored spy, to locate them.

After this was done, the officers left the main road and got around ahead of them and selected a place near the roadside to await their approach. About 7 o'clock the Negroes came along, one driving the wagon and Glass and two others following close behind. When within ten feet Captain Sixkiller stepped out into the road and commanded them to surrender. Instead of doing so they started to run. After Dick ran a few steps he succeeded in getting his pistol out, and he turned and  fired on part of them. Dick Glass and Jim Johnson were killed. Some of the officers shot the driver, slightly wounding him. The officers thinking him dead pursued the remaining one and succeeded in capturing him after a race of a half a mile.

After returning to the place where the shooting began, they found the driver and the horse gone, the wagon having broken down. Two of the police started in pursuit of drive and horse, and after a race of six miles Policeman Laftore overtook him in the prairie. The Negro, seeing that he was about to be captured, made for a tree a short distance from the road, but the policeman was too quick for him and cut him off from the tree, and ordered him to surrender and throw down his gun. He saw the game was up and threw up his hands.

After returning with the prisoner to the scene of the first encounter, the bodies of Glass and Johnson and the two prisoners were put into a wagon and brought to Colbert, where Glass, was fully identified by a number of parties.

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