James Walter Sheehan

© Cheyenne Star

30 Nov 1905

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Tuesday afternoon about four o'clock, G. E. Vance, bartender in J. S. William's saloon at Sayre, shot and instantly killed James Walter Sheehan, and wounded Henry Maddox. The wounds of Maddox, however, were accidental and not serious.

It seems that Maddox and Walter Sheehan were fighting. Maddox was making an effort to strike Walter over the head with a pistol, when his brother, Luther Sheehan, walked up and wrenching the weapon from his hand started to the front door of the saloon to throw it out and did throw it out into the street. At this point Vance, who was in no way mixed up in the trouble, fired the contents of a double barrel shotgun into Walter Sheehan's head and face, and turning took a shot at Luther Sheehan who was going towards the door with Maddox's pistol. Maddox, who had his hand about Sheehan's throat or head, lost a finger and received a few shots in the face.

Walter Sheehan was a quiet peaceable young married man.

Vance and Maddox have been in trouble frequently.

We are told that the coroner's inquest was damning.

Burial in Lone Oak cemetery, Sayre.

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