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MURDER - Monday morning Will Coffman came riding rapidly into town hunting a justice and said Erwin Covey whose claim is four miles south and one and one half east of Okeene had shot his wife.
Last fall they had trouble and a written agreement of separation and divided their property and he went away leaving her in possession of the claim as her own. Last Sunday night he returned and tried to make up, which she would not do. She refused to hear to this and would not allow him to eat breakfast. He went to the barn to hitch up and leave. She went out and removed a tap from the buggy and ordered him not to take it. He tried to get a tap from a spring wagon to replace the one on the buggy. This set her fiery temper to fury and she grabbed the wrench and began beating him over the head inflicting an ugly cut between the left eye and temple. He drew his gun and fired four shots -- one breaking her right arm above the elbow, one through left shoulder, one through left breast and one in her back below shoulder blade. She fought him to the last shot and then walked a few paces and fell dead.
Covey made no effort to escape and surrendered his revolver to Mr. Brickman when asked to do so. He is in jail at Watonga. The dead woman is a daughter of Mrs. Croft who lived on the quarter section on which Lacey is built. There are five children left to bear the loss this tragedy had inflicted.
{NOTE: There is a family named CROFT in the Cimarron Valley Cemetery but there is not anyone by the name of COVEY listed and no one by the name CROFT is listed as passing on in 1899.}
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