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Rutherford left here about 1891, went out to Sterling City. Held some public office, and then moved to Indian Territory. He was looking after the business of a wealthy Indian woman. Her uncle, or some relation, named Durant, for whom the city was named, thought he was beating the woman out of some money, and in an altercation Rutherford shot him, but didn’t kill him. He said that if a policeman hadn’t got between them, he would have finished him, and that he came near shooting through the officer and doing it anyhow.

Rutherford married the Indian woman and they came back here once. She was yellow or golden-skinned. He had a hard time getting out of trouble up there.

(One time Rutherford, and perhaps Uncle Tom Pierson was with him, got into some kind of shooting scrape out east of town here. He even seems to have had a trial in the Masonic Lodge.

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CHESLEY'S  HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS

BY

HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.

Born: 21 November, 1894

Died: 17 July, 1979

 

 

 
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