Brixey, Bertie, Sheriff 21 Oct 1880 - 23 Dec 1914
Word reached Ozark Sunday evening of the killing of Sheriff Brixey, of Webster county about noon Sunday at Niangua, a village six miles east of Marshfield by a man named Bartlett who Brixey was trying to arrest as knowing or taking part in connection with a team taken from a hitchrack in Marshfield Saturday night. Shortly after the killing, the slayer was placed under arrest by Deputy Sheriff Shields and taken to Springfield for safe keeping as owing to the popularity of Brixey and the circumstances of the killing, mob vengeance was feared should he be placed in the jail at Marshfield. Funeral services and burial was held Tuesday at Seymour, his old home. He leaves a wife and two children, Sheriff Brixey was quite well known here, especially by the baseball fans, as he was a member of the Marshfield team during the season of 1913 and visited this place with the team on two or three occasions and pitched against the local team.
CCR 27 Nov 1914 p1
Contributed by Mary Lambert
Word reached Ozark Sunday evening of the killing of Sheriff Brixey, of Webster county about noon Sunday at Niangua, a village six miles east of Marshfield by a man named Bartlett who Brixey was trying to arrest as knowing or taking part in connection with a team taken from a hitchrack in Marshfield Saturday night. Shortly after the killing, the slayer was placed under arrest by Deputy Sheriff Shields and taken to Springfield for safe keeping as owing to the popularity of Brixey and the circumstances of the killing, mob vengeance was feared should he be placed in the jail at Marshfield. Funeral services and burial was held Tuesday at Seymour, his old home. He leaves a wife and two children, Sheriff Brixey was quite well known here, especially by the baseball fans, as he was a member of the Marshfield team during the season of 1913 and visited this place with the team on two or three occasions and pitched against the local team.
CCR 27 Nov 1914 p1
Contributed by Mary Lambert
Brixey, Bertie, Sheriff 21 Oct 1880 - 23 Dec 1914
Word reached Ozark Sunday evening of the killing of Sheriff Brixey, of Webster county about noon Sunday at Niangua, a village six miles east of Marshfield by a man named Bartlett who Brixey was trying to arrest as knowing or taking part in connection with a team taken from a hitchrack in Marshfield Saturday night. Shortly after the killing, the slayer was placed under arrest by Deputy Sheriff Shields and taken to Springfield for safe keeping as owing to the popularity of Brixey and the circumstances of the killing, mob vengeance was feared should he be placed in the jail at Marshfield. Funeral services and burial was held Tuesday at Seymour, his old home. He leaves a wife and two children, Sheriff Brixey was quite well known here, especially by the baseball fans, as he was a member of the Marshfield team during the season of 1913 and visited this place with the team on two or three occasions and pitched against the local team.
CCR 27 Nov 1914 p1
Contributed by Mary Lambert
Word reached Ozark Sunday evening of the killing of Sheriff Brixey, of Webster county about noon Sunday at Niangua, a village six miles east of Marshfield by a man named Bartlett who Brixey was trying to arrest as knowing or taking part in connection with a team taken from a hitchrack in Marshfield Saturday night. Shortly after the killing, the slayer was placed under arrest by Deputy Sheriff Shields and taken to Springfield for safe keeping as owing to the popularity of Brixey and the circumstances of the killing, mob vengeance was feared should he be placed in the jail at Marshfield. Funeral services and burial was held Tuesday at Seymour, his old home. He leaves a wife and two children, Sheriff Brixey was quite well known here, especially by the baseball fans, as he was a member of the Marshfield team during the season of 1913 and visited this place with the team on two or three occasions and pitched against the local team.
CCR 27 Nov 1914 p1
Contributed by Mary Lambert
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