Tulsa Tribune

Probably Tough Bob.

Now, the Tulsa Tribune reported in their October 8th, 1911 story, the account of brother Stringer Fenton, who was also a lawman of some repute.

And I quote, According to advices received here last night by the police, Stringer Fenton, state enforcement officer, best revolver shot in the entire Southwest, the man who captured Harry Starr, notorious highwayman, and the hero of many other dangerous conflicts with criminals, shot and killed Elmer J. McCurdy, the alleged train robber.

So it sounds to me like old Sheriff Tough Bob didn't want to give his brother credit when he said no one knows who fired the fatal shot.

It's said that more than 3,000 people in Tulsa at the time were members of the Ku Klux Klan.

And there was a white-owned newspaper at the time, the Tulsa Tribune, that ran a number of editorials that were overtly racist.

One headline said, After Rowland's arrest, the Tribune's front page screamed, But a large number of Greenwood men decided they were not going to let that happen.

They knew the shoeshine boy had done nothing wrong, and they weren't about to sit by while yet another innocent young black man was executed by a mob for a crime he didn't commit.

Three hundred people were killed, murdered, slaughtered for no other reason than the color of their skin.

If you were black, you were a target, and there was no shortage of people willing to take aim." So what does it take to enable a person to cross that bridge and get to a place where they're willing to join in a mob murder of people from their own community, people who lived only blocks away, people they interacted with, people they passed by in the street? How do you get from here to there? Now, there was plenty that was allowed to cause the pressure to build up in Tulsa.

The race-baiting newspaper, the Tulsa Tribune, the racism that was endemic in society, the Ku Klux Klan, jealousy at the prosperity of black Tulsans.

But none of those things can be allowed to be used as excuses for an atrocity like this.

And then I was led and heard about another tennis tournament that is an unsanctioned tennis tournament from here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the Case Tennis Complex at LaFortune Park, where I used to play many, many years ago, back when it was only one Like one clubhouse that was just very small and run by Frank Ward, which was a tennis teacher in high school back then.

Also ran all the tournaments that came through, Tulsa World, Tulsa Tribune.

And there used to be 1,200 or more people that used to go through and do the tournament.

And he used to go with courts all around town here in order to get the tournament done for that weekend.

Word got to the sheriff, whose name was Robert Donald, and the sheriff took it seriously enough to go out there, and then the papers got it, and then the television stations in Tulsa, and then the wire services, and within a week, Naxi, Oklahoma, was being talked about on the radio in Canada.

The Tulsa Tribune ran an artist's drawing of the creature on the 4th of September since nobody had a photograph, and the drawing is what most people who remember the Naxi monster remember.

A Bigfoot researcher named Hayden Hughes drove up from Oklahoma City to investigate, and between his interviews and the sheriff's, they came up with at least two dozen people in the county who said they'd seen or heard the thing that September and October.

A Hollywood producer was reported to have offered ten thousand dollars for film of it.