Serious shooting affray near Brent

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times

25 Years Ago

(From the Dec. 26,1999, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Sequoyah County Emergency Management and the Local Emergency Respond Committee will be conducting an annual emergency response exercise Dec. 28 through Jan. 3.

The two organizations have held planning meetings for the past month to prepare for any emergencies which might result as the 21st century dawns.

The emergency response committee is required to conduct annual drills to test local preparedness in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency, Albert Marquez, Sequoyah County Emergency Management Director said.

Although no problems are expected Marquez said emergency management would open an operations center from Dec. 28 through Jan. 3 at the Sequoyah County Courthouse.

50 Years Ago

(From the Dec. 26,1974, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Sequoyah County was dealt a jolting economic blow this week when it was announced that the Sallisaw office of the Time-DC, Inc., trucking firm would close on Jan. 31.

Time-DC moved into Sallisaw on Dec. 1,1958 with 18 drivers and one supervisor. A peak of 41 drivers was reached in 1972. At present, 36 drivers and two supervisors are employed.

The annual payroll of these people exceeds $700,000, not including money spent in the area of fuel, motel bills and other items which bring money into the county.

75 Years Ago

(From the Dec. 30,1949, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Three St. Joseph, Mo., men arrested here Sunday, it has been revealed by Highway Patrolman K.O. Rayburn, are wanted by the FBI and Missouri state authorities.

They are Don L. Fanning, Robert Taylor and Charles Corneilson, all of St. Joseph. Trooper O.E. Shamblin stated that they were scheduled to be arraigned at 10 a.m. Thursday in Federal court in Muskogee, and as we go to press, no word has been received from the Muskogee authorities.

As stated in your Democrat-American Tuesday, the three were picked up by Rayburn at the edge of town, and were found to be carrying two pistols. They were jailed for carrying concealed weapons and having no state driver’s license.

The tag on the car they were driving was a stolen one, he reported, and it was later discovered that the car had been stolen in St. Joseph Friday night.

The men are wanted by the FBI, said Shamburg for grand larceny and transporting a stolen vehicle across a state line.

Missouri authorities want them for five burglaries and one attempted burglary.

All three of the men are parolees who have broken their paroles from the Missouri State Industrial school, stated Shamburg.

Fanning is charged in Sequoyah County with burglary of the home of Carl Sparkman, who lives halfway between Sallisaw and Muldrow. Charges claim he took a suitcase full of clothes from the Sparkman home Monday shortly after he was released from the Sequoyah County jail.

—There are no new developments in the burglary of Mayo and Company Monday night, report officers who have been working on the case.

100 years ago

(From the Dec. 26,1924, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat) —Sheriff John E. Johnston and County Attorney Harry D. Pitchford were called to Brent last Saturday night to investigate quite a serious shooting affray that took place near there that night, and in which Clarence Gable, aged 20, was shot three times. It is alleged that the shooting was done by Timmie Foreman, aged 19, following a hurried quarrel. Sheriff Johnston placed the Foreman boy under arrest and brought him to Sallisaw where he is being held pending preliminary hearing. It is said that the Foreman boy claims self-defense prompted the shooting and that he is not actually the one to blame for the regrettable tragedy. The two boys were returning from a dance held in the neighborhood and were on their way home. The Gable boy’s father was a tenant this year on the Foreman farm. The records of the sheriff and county attorney show that the Gable boy has had trouble in that community heretofore, with one particularly serious charge filed against him a year or more ago.

The wounded man was brought to Sallisaw Sunday morning for treatment and is at the home of Dee Norrid. Dr. J.A. Cheek, the attending physician, announces that his wounds are quite serious. The bullets were from a .32 automatic revolver. One of the shots penetrated the boy’s spine, and his lower limbs are entirely paralyzed as well as internal paralysis. Should he recover, his lower limbs will be permanently paralyzed.

—Manager Bugher of the Wonderland Theatre indeed “saved the best for the last” in his 1924 program of pictures, and on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of this week presented to his patrons “The Covered Wagon,” one of the masterpieces of filmdom. The picture was to have been shown on Monday and Tuesday evenings but the delayed trains and traffic tie-ups all over the west caused a one-day delay in the arrival of the film, so the dates were changed to Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

Splendid crowds were in attendance both nights. Manager Bugher has endeavored throughout the whole year to build up the standard of his pictures and is giving Sallisaw some of the best sent out by the booking agencies. On several occasions pictures have been shown here earlier than in Muskogee or Fort Smith. Certainly no program could be better than a Paramount program, but it will be many a day before a picture will be shown here that will excel “The Covered Wagon.”