Bio & Incident Details
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Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Location: Oklahoma
Incident Date: 10/19/1892
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Arrested
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Deputy Marshal Fields was shot and killed while he and a posse attempted to arrest a man near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for the murder of Deputy Marshal Dan Maples on May 5, 1887. Several attempts had been made to arrest the man during the five years since Deputy Marshal Maples' murder. The man had been barricaded in a fortified cabin and was able to repel the attempts made to arrest him. Three weeks after the murder of Deputy Marshal Fields another attempt was made in which the man was arrested.
The suspect was finally killed in a succesful raid on the home. The home was riddled with thousands of rounds of gunfire, shot by cannon fire, and then blown up with dynamite.
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