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Popular Jim Bourland Is Shot Down by Fred Hudson,
Former, Outlaw Tragedy Was At Anadarko Bourland Has Been Threatened by Desperadoes for Years-Wanted the Sheriffship Guthrie, Oklahoma-John R. Abernathy, United States marshal, received a telegram this morning announcing that Deputy Marshal Jim Bourland of Anadarko, had been shot and fatally wounded by Fred Hudson, the ex-outlaw and former member of the Bert Casey band of desperadoes. Hudson was also shot by Bourland and will die.
Hudson was only recently released from custody, being acquitted of killing Deputy Marshal Lute Houston, near Swan Lake in 1892. He was held, however, as a witness against Jim and Ben Hughes, who were also acquitted of the killing yesterday at Hobart.
But little is known here, as yet, regarding the double killing today at Anadarko.
Bourland was a very popular officer and for five years past outlaws have threatened his life.
He was a candidate for the next democratic nomination for sheriff of Caddo County, but has served as a deputy marshal several years
Fred Hudson came into prominence three years ago by killing Bert Casey, the outlaw king, at Cleo Springs. Hudson being commissioned as a deputy marshal in order to capture Casey, dead or alive. A few months ago, he was acquitted in Arkansas, of murdering a man.
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