James Keith, Killed.
Isaac Keith received a telegram from Bayard last Thursday evening informing him that his brother, Jim had been shot and killed that afternoon. No particulars were given. Isaac and James Burnett left for that place on Friday morning.
--Later we learn that Mr. Keith was killed at Bridgeport, Nebr. during a Soldiers Reunion and that it was a saloon keeper formerly of Omaha that did the shooting. There seemed to have been no reason for crime, as Mr. Keith was peacebly [sic] unhitching a horse that belonged to Haggerty the saloon man, with the intention of driving the murderers sister to the race track, when Hagerty came out and told him not to do so. Mr. Keith, not knowing of any ill feeling toward him, replied that he would, when Haggerty returned to the saloon and procured a revolver, returning walked up to Keith and said, now will you be good, and shot him through the bowels.
The Sherman County Times - late Aug/early Sep 1908
From Find A Grave contributor Kathy Burr
Isaac Keith received a telegram from Bayard last Thursday evening informing him that his brother, Jim had been shot and killed that afternoon. No particulars were given. Isaac and James Burnett left for that place on Friday morning.
--Later we learn that Mr. Keith was killed at Bridgeport, Nebr. during a Soldiers Reunion and that it was a saloon keeper formerly of Omaha that did the shooting. There seemed to have been no reason for crime, as Mr. Keith was peacebly [sic] unhitching a horse that belonged to Haggerty the saloon man, with the intention of driving the murderers sister to the race track, when Hagerty came out and told him not to do so. Mr. Keith, not knowing of any ill feeling toward him, replied that he would, when Haggerty returned to the saloon and procured a revolver, returning walked up to Keith and said, now will you be good, and shot him through the bowels.
The Sherman County Times - late Aug/early Sep 1908
From Find A Grave contributor Kathy Burr
James Keith, Killed.
Isaac Keith received a telegram from Bayard last Thursday evening informing him that his brother, Jim had been shot and killed that afternoon. No particulars were given. Isaac and James Burnett left for that place on Friday morning.
--Later we learn that Mr. Keith was killed at Bridgeport, Nebr. during a Soldiers Reunion and that it was a saloon keeper formerly of Omaha that did the shooting. There seemed to have been no reason for crime, as Mr. Keith was peacebly [sic] unhitching a horse that belonged to Haggerty the saloon man, with the intention of driving the murderers sister to the race track, when Hagerty came out and told him not to do so. Mr. Keith, not knowing of any ill feeling toward him, replied that he would, when Haggerty returned to the saloon and procured a revolver, returning walked up to Keith and said, now will you be good, and shot him through the bowels.
The Sherman County Times - late Aug/early Sep 1908
From Find A Grave contributor Kathy Burr
Isaac Keith received a telegram from Bayard last Thursday evening informing him that his brother, Jim had been shot and killed that afternoon. No particulars were given. Isaac and James Burnett left for that place on Friday morning.
--Later we learn that Mr. Keith was killed at Bridgeport, Nebr. during a Soldiers Reunion and that it was a saloon keeper formerly of Omaha that did the shooting. There seemed to have been no reason for crime, as Mr. Keith was peacebly [sic] unhitching a horse that belonged to Haggerty the saloon man, with the intention of driving the murderers sister to the race track, when Hagerty came out and told him not to do so. Mr. Keith, not knowing of any ill feeling toward him, replied that he would, when Haggerty returned to the saloon and procured a revolver, returning walked up to Keith and said, now will you be good, and shot him through the bowels.
The Sherman County Times - late Aug/early Sep 1908
From Find A Grave contributor Kathy Burr
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