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He was re-elected two years later. Flora Kendall Tilghman died at the age of 39 on October 12, 1900. Bill and Flora Tilghman had had an unhappy marriage and were living apart at the time of her death. Contrary to latter-day reports, there is no evidence that they were divorced at the time.
17 de jun. de 2014 · With his law enforcement career over, he drank heavily and was arrested a few times—before dying in a gunfight in 1932. So what happened? Was Tilghman murdered, or did Lynn shoot him in self-defense? The truth probably lies in the middle, as Tilghman and Lynn were flawed men who played both sides of the law.
16 de nov. de 2009 · 1924. Legendary western lawman is murdered. On November 1, 1924, William Tilghman is murdered by a corrupt Prohibition agent who resented Tilghman’s refusal to ignore local bootlegging...
1 de nov. de 2012 · Tilghman slumped forward and died early the next day. Lynn then fled the scene. Wiley Lynn was eventually acquitted of murder after several witnesses to the shooting, allegedly intimidated, failed to appear.
18 de nov. de 2017 · The death of Bill Tilghman Well, a drunken Lynn turns up in town, discharging his pistol wildly. Bill grabs his gun hand and succeeds in wrestling the firearm away from him but the skunk pulls a second pistol from a pocket and shoots Bill in the gut several times.
Attracted to the Land Run of 1889, Tilghman located a claim near Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. After the Cherokee Outlet Opening in 1893, while he was working as a peace officer in the boomtown of Perry, he killed a troublemaker called Crescent Sam on September 17, 1893.
Tilghman has served four years as Sheriff of Lincoln County and killed, captured, and driven a greater number of criminals from the country than any other official in Oklahoma or the Indian Territory.
