Richard Tilghman is alleged to have been shot by one of the men who were sitting in on the game, when the raiders entered and started to hi-jack the party. Chitwood was killed instantly and one of the hi-jackers is declared to have robbed his body as it lay on the floor. Tilghman was hot in the abdomen and is said to have been carried to a waiting car by his uncle and later taken to a hospital in Chickasha, where he was treated. His wound proved fatal, however. His mother, who lives in Oklahoma City, was prostrated by the whole affair. All four of the men alleged to have been implicated in the hold up were charged with murder, but death, of course, stops any prosecution in Richard Tilghman’s case.

Tilghman’s father, as will be recalled, was shot and killed by a man named Lynn, while Tilgman was serving as chief of police of the town of Cromwell, in its early days as an oil town.