W.R. “Dick” Shaver, Deputy U.S. Marshal and City Marshal
U.S. Marshals
City of Boley
W. R. “Dick” Shaver was serving as a Deputy U.S. Marshal and the first City Marshal of Boley when he was shot in the back the evening of Monday, August 14, 1905. Marshal Shaver went out about 8:00 P.M. three miles to Andy Simmons’ house to arrest him for horse stealing. While Shaver was sitting on his horse about twenty feet from the fence of George Johnson talking to him, Dick Simmons, Andy’s brother, came from a blind road around the fence at Shaver’s back and without warning fired on Shaver with a Winchester rifle. Marshal Shaver, a noted marksman, was able to return fire and kill his assailant before he himself died. Marshal Shaver was survived by his wife and four small children.