OUTLAW GANG WIPED OUT

The body of Bill Nail, a member of Mose Miller's gang of outlaws was taken to Muskogee Saturday, by Deputy Marshal Dobson and Posse men E. B. Alberty, J. E. Parks and George Mitchell. Dobson and his men killed nail early Saturday morning near Garfield, I. T.. The house in which Nail was supposed to be was surrounded Friday night, but Nail did not appear until morning, when he passed close to Dobson, and his men, going to the house for his breakfast. When about 70 yards away he was fired on by the men, and when the smoke cleared away Nail was lying n the ground with bullet holes through his heart, arm and abdomen. He died immediately. Nail was armed to the teeth. He had with him the Winchester formerly used by 'Cherokee Bill. Mose Miller is supposed to be the only member of the gang not captured. The gang had planned to rob the bank at Checotah, I. T. Nail was a Cherokee Negro and recently returned from Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, where he served a term of four years for larceny. He is supposed to have been the man who killed H. Z. Taylor, the postmaster at Melvin, a few days ago.