Guy Milton Jarvis, Undersheriff

Blaine County Sheriff's Office

On the morning of Thursday, June 25, 1931, Undersheriff Jarvis, 38, and Deputy Sheriff George Gender went to arrest Charles Fillmore Davis, 41, for stealing gasoline. As the officers approached Davis’ two room shack seven miles northeast of Watonga , he fired through the door twice. Davis then yelled at the officers that if they put down their guns he come out and surrender to them. The officers laid their guns down. Davis came out with a 12-gauge shotgun and shot Undersheriff Jarvis in the chest killing him instantly and slightly wounding Deputy Gender. Deputy Gender retreated out of the area. Davis picked up the officers’ guns and left in the deputies’ car. Undersheriff Jarvis was survived by his wife and daughter. Davis was arrested on July 17 near Drumright with the officers’ guns. Davis was convicted of Jarvis’ murder and died in the Oklahoma electric chair on August 9, 1932.