On Thursday night Capt. Sixkiller received a telegram from Policeman Robert Murray, of Colbert, stating that Dick Glass and three companions has passed through that place bound for Denison with several ponies to exchange for a load of whiskey and that he would return the next day.

Friday morning Capt. Sixkiller was on hand and he and Policeman Robert Murray, Frank Gooden, Leflore and C. M. McClellan, a well-known cattleman of the Cherokee Nation started out to Post Oak Grove to intercept them. They arrived about 10 o’clock at night and by means of a colored man located the parties about five miles south of Emit and thirty miles from Colbert When the moon arose about three o’clock Saturday morning they saddled up and getting near Glass’s camp hid their horses and lay in the brush for them to appear.

About seven o’clock the outfit was discovered coming along the road. Richmond Carolina was driving and Jim Johnson, Dick Glass and Sam Carolina were walking behind the wagon, the forty gallons of whiskey they had proving as much as their tender shouldered ponies cared to pull. When within a few feet of them the officers stepping into the road, Sam Sixkiller in the lead, and ordered the Negroes to surrender. Instead of doing this they attempted to escape. Dick pulled his pistol and turned to shoot when a charge from Capt. Sixkiller’s shotgun went into his breast and another into his head, killing him instantly. Jim Johnson also attempted to shoot but a dose of lead settled him.

In the meantime the driver had whipped up and as he was going by Leflore and McClellan ordered him to halt. As he did not they fired and he fell into the wagon apparently dead. Then they pursued Sam Carolina and after a half-mile chase succeeded in capturing him.

Returning they found that Richmond Carolina had only been slightly wounded and had unhitched and taken the horses and Dick’s Winchester and escaped. Laflore and Gooden started after him but the latter’s horse soon gave out and after a chase of five miles Laflore came alone and caught up with him. The darky made for a tree with the intention of resisting but was headed off and compelled to surrender.

The prisoners and the two bodies were then brought there and put in the cooler preparatory to being taken to Ft. Smith. The reward of $500 for Glass was “dead or alive” and Capt. Sixkiller will apply for it in a few days.