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Subject: [OK-LAWMEN-OUTLAW] DUSM Heck Bruner
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 22:42:52 EST
A newspaper account of Deputy U.S. Marshal Heck Bruner
On the Trail
Diron Ahlquist
OKC, OK
editor, Oklahombres Journal

The Cherokee Advocate, August 5, 1893
BANK ROBBER KILLED
August 5, 1893-The Cherokee Advocate-Deputy United States Marshal Heck Bruner
and a posse, consisting of Wood Bruner and D. Douthit had a lively fight
Saturday, near White Oak, a small station on Wolf creek in the neighborhood of
Vinita, with two of the band of desperadoes, who are anxious to succeed Henry
Starr as the terrors of the trains and banks of the Indian Territory and on its
borders.
For a week, Bruner and his party have been after the gang that robbed a
Congdon & Co's bank at Mound Valley, Kan., about a month ago, of $500. Shortly
after the robbing of the bank, the officers secured a number of clues that made
them almost positive that part of the band was the Rogers boys, who live in the
Indian Territory not far from Caney, Kansas.
A posse of citizens followed the band down into the Territory and located
them near Lenapah in the river bottom, but the outlaws gave their pursuers he
slip and were next heard from in the neighborhood of Pryor Creek. Here Bruner and
his posse took up the trail and followed it closely until they located their
men near White Oak. They gained information that the men they were after would
be at a certain house Saturday night, so they went by a roundabout way to the
place and hid in a log crib that stood out in the yard not a great way from
the house.
About dusk two men rode up and hitched their horses and started into the
house. Bruner, and his party let the men get some distance away from their horses
and then came out on them and demanded their surrender. The older of the two
attempted to use his Winchester and a lively little fight took place during
which the older one of the two outlaws was killed, the younger one shot through
the hip and both their horses killed. The avenue of escape being shut off the
boy surrendered. The dead man was identified as Ralph Hedrick and the captured
one gave his name as Sam Rogers.
While the fight was in progress two men were seen to come in sight on the
prairie, stop, watch the fight a short while and then turn and flee as fast as
their horses could carry them. There were two others in the gang.
The wounded man was taken to Vinita where his wounds were dressed, and Heck
Brunner brought him in this morning and placed him in jail. Dr. Vance, the jail
physician, says that Rogers is suffering considerable but is not dangerously
wounded.
Rogers talked quite freely with the deputies and claimed that he had not been
engaged in any of the robberies, as he had been with the gang only about two
weeks.
He admitted that they were planning some bank and train robberies.
Hedrick was shot through the breast and right hip was shattered. He lived
only a short while after he was shot. His home is in Rudolph, Kansas, where his
relatives live. He was one of the five men engaged in the Mound Valley bank
robbery and one of the two who robbed the depot at Chelsea, I. T. The latter
robbery was committed the Friday before Henry Starr was captured, and was charged
to him, but the deputies say that they have positive proof that Hedrick and a
companion were the robbers. Fort Smith Daily Times

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