Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

MAN KILLED AT NEWKIRK

C.E. Doris, local manager of the Pioneer Telephone company, is dead at his home in Newkirk as the result of a peculiar accident. Early in the evening Lawrence Hand and Cecil Arrendiell, two young men of Newkirk, had quarreled and Hand had cut Arrendiell in the stomach with a knife. Doris had gone to look after the wounded man and remained with him until about two o’clock in the morning when he started home. On his way home he met a couple of young men and had some conversation with them, also showing them a 44 caliber revolver which he said he was taking home to give to his mother and sister, who were about to start on a visit back east, to show the folks back east what kind of guns we carried in Oklahoma. The young men passed on, and had only gone a short distance when they heard a gun discharged. Returning to the place where they had left Doris, they found him lying on the sidewalk in an insensible condition. Investigation showed that he had dropped the revolver on the stone sidewalk and in falling the gun had been discharged, the bullet entering his body between the legs and ranging upward through the bowels and stomach. The man died without recovering consciousness. - Courier.