Wrong name given in earlier post!

It's William Andrew Skinner I'm trying to find, not William Newton! I was working on my Newton line when I posted this and just goofed. So sorry.

Anyway....

I'm trying to find out about this ancestor and would appreciate any help to fill in gaps.

William A. Skinner b. 1882, was a lawman in Oklahoma in the early 1900s. Family members think he was a U. S. Marshall, but it could have been any branch of law enforcement. He lived in Cleveland County, down around the Buckhead area...

At some point though William turned outlaw, or so the family lore says. I'm not sure just what he did, but supposedly he was caught down in Texas doing something illegal, and was hanged/shot.

Family lore says the family in Oklahoma didn't know about it until someone read in a law-enforcement magazine of his death. At that point two Skinner family members went down to Texas and brought back his body. William was buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Cleveland County. The date on his headstone says he died January 22, 1912 -- or could that be the date he was buried? I don't know.

Does anyone have anything on this fellow? What did he do? How exactly did he die? Is there a magazine article?

Thanks... Mae