MORE ABOUT RUTHERFORD
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