22 years old according to cemetery records.
Single horse wrangler.
Died of gunshot wounds.
About noon Saturday "Allie" Means, a cow-puncher in the employ of the Cross outfit, was fatally shot by N.T. Richardson, a man working for the T7 outfit. The quarrel began out at the camp of the former, over Frances Williams, a woman of unsavory character. She left the camp with Means, unknown for a short time to Richardson, who finally learned of the escape and followed the pair to within a quarter of a mile of Gillette where he fired four shots at Means as he was fleeing from him. Three of the shots took effect, one of them passing through the bowels, one finding lodgment in the left lung, and the third striking him in the shoulder. The fellow was brought to the hospital at Sheridan on freight train No. 45 Sunday afternoon, and died at 1:40 a.m. yesterday. His father was wired at San Antonio, Texas, and he asked that his son be buried here. Money raised at Gillette to bring Means to the hospital was used in defraying the expenses of the burial, and to satisfy other expenses incurred.
This morning at 9 o'clock Coroner Geo. Levi Smith empaneled a jury composed of John Holland, Robt. Holland and S.D. Bell. Deputy Sheriff Lew Jenney, Coroner W. R. Fox, Prosecuting Attorney M. L. Gordon of Crook county, and Sam Ditto of Gillette were present. Jenney and Ditto testified to having talked to Richardson after he was captured and put in jail at Gillette. When told that he had killed Means he said he was glad of it. He wished he had also killed another man by the name of Clarence Higler, saying they had not used him right. Dr. Levers, of the hospital, testified that Means told him he and Richardson had a quarrel over a girl, he having "won" her away from the other fellow. Drs. Levers and Denebrink had held a post mortem examination Monday and removed the bullets, which were copper covered and marked and of 32 caliber.
The Crook county men returned to Gillette this evening, and the remains will be interred tomorrow by the coroner.
Sheridan Post Aug. 29, 1905
Obit provided by Karylyn Petrie
Single horse wrangler.
Died of gunshot wounds.
About noon Saturday "Allie" Means, a cow-puncher in the employ of the Cross outfit, was fatally shot by N.T. Richardson, a man working for the T7 outfit. The quarrel began out at the camp of the former, over Frances Williams, a woman of unsavory character. She left the camp with Means, unknown for a short time to Richardson, who finally learned of the escape and followed the pair to within a quarter of a mile of Gillette where he fired four shots at Means as he was fleeing from him. Three of the shots took effect, one of them passing through the bowels, one finding lodgment in the left lung, and the third striking him in the shoulder. The fellow was brought to the hospital at Sheridan on freight train No. 45 Sunday afternoon, and died at 1:40 a.m. yesterday. His father was wired at San Antonio, Texas, and he asked that his son be buried here. Money raised at Gillette to bring Means to the hospital was used in defraying the expenses of the burial, and to satisfy other expenses incurred.
This morning at 9 o'clock Coroner Geo. Levi Smith empaneled a jury composed of John Holland, Robt. Holland and S.D. Bell. Deputy Sheriff Lew Jenney, Coroner W. R. Fox, Prosecuting Attorney M. L. Gordon of Crook county, and Sam Ditto of Gillette were present. Jenney and Ditto testified to having talked to Richardson after he was captured and put in jail at Gillette. When told that he had killed Means he said he was glad of it. He wished he had also killed another man by the name of Clarence Higler, saying they had not used him right. Dr. Levers, of the hospital, testified that Means told him he and Richardson had a quarrel over a girl, he having "won" her away from the other fellow. Drs. Levers and Denebrink had held a post mortem examination Monday and removed the bullets, which were copper covered and marked and of 32 caliber.
The Crook county men returned to Gillette this evening, and the remains will be interred tomorrow by the coroner.
Sheridan Post Aug. 29, 1905
Obit provided by Karylyn Petrie
22 years old according to cemetery records.
Single horse wrangler.
Died of gunshot wounds.
About noon Saturday "Allie" Means, a cow-puncher in the employ of the Cross outfit, was fatally shot by N.T. Richardson, a man working for the T7 outfit. The quarrel began out at the camp of the former, over Frances Williams, a woman of unsavory character. She left the camp with Means, unknown for a short time to Richardson, who finally learned of the escape and followed the pair to within a quarter of a mile of Gillette where he fired four shots at Means as he was fleeing from him. Three of the shots took effect, one of them passing through the bowels, one finding lodgment in the left lung, and the third striking him in the shoulder. The fellow was brought to the hospital at Sheridan on freight train No. 45 Sunday afternoon, and died at 1:40 a.m. yesterday. His father was wired at San Antonio, Texas, and he asked that his son be buried here. Money raised at Gillette to bring Means to the hospital was used in defraying the expenses of the burial, and to satisfy other expenses incurred.
This morning at 9 o'clock Coroner Geo. Levi Smith empaneled a jury composed of John Holland, Robt. Holland and S.D. Bell. Deputy Sheriff Lew Jenney, Coroner W. R. Fox, Prosecuting Attorney M. L. Gordon of Crook county, and Sam Ditto of Gillette were present. Jenney and Ditto testified to having talked to Richardson after he was captured and put in jail at Gillette. When told that he had killed Means he said he was glad of it. He wished he had also killed another man by the name of Clarence Higler, saying they had not used him right. Dr. Levers, of the hospital, testified that Means told him he and Richardson had a quarrel over a girl, he having "won" her away from the other fellow. Drs. Levers and Denebrink had held a post mortem examination Monday and removed the bullets, which were copper covered and marked and of 32 caliber.
The Crook county men returned to Gillette this evening, and the remains will be interred tomorrow by the coroner.
Sheridan Post Aug. 29, 1905
Obit provided by Karylyn Petrie
Single horse wrangler.
Died of gunshot wounds.
About noon Saturday "Allie" Means, a cow-puncher in the employ of the Cross outfit, was fatally shot by N.T. Richardson, a man working for the T7 outfit. The quarrel began out at the camp of the former, over Frances Williams, a woman of unsavory character. She left the camp with Means, unknown for a short time to Richardson, who finally learned of the escape and followed the pair to within a quarter of a mile of Gillette where he fired four shots at Means as he was fleeing from him. Three of the shots took effect, one of them passing through the bowels, one finding lodgment in the left lung, and the third striking him in the shoulder. The fellow was brought to the hospital at Sheridan on freight train No. 45 Sunday afternoon, and died at 1:40 a.m. yesterday. His father was wired at San Antonio, Texas, and he asked that his son be buried here. Money raised at Gillette to bring Means to the hospital was used in defraying the expenses of the burial, and to satisfy other expenses incurred.
This morning at 9 o'clock Coroner Geo. Levi Smith empaneled a jury composed of John Holland, Robt. Holland and S.D. Bell. Deputy Sheriff Lew Jenney, Coroner W. R. Fox, Prosecuting Attorney M. L. Gordon of Crook county, and Sam Ditto of Gillette were present. Jenney and Ditto testified to having talked to Richardson after he was captured and put in jail at Gillette. When told that he had killed Means he said he was glad of it. He wished he had also killed another man by the name of Clarence Higler, saying they had not used him right. Dr. Levers, of the hospital, testified that Means told him he and Richardson had a quarrel over a girl, he having "won" her away from the other fellow. Drs. Levers and Denebrink had held a post mortem examination Monday and removed the bullets, which were copper covered and marked and of 32 caliber.
The Crook county men returned to Gillette this evening, and the remains will be interred tomorrow by the coroner.
Sheridan Post Aug. 29, 1905
Obit provided by Karylyn Petrie
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