Hugh H. Myers, City Marshal

Davis, City of

On Saturday night, May 5, 1900, Pink Bruner, Lyman Mahardy and Ben Gage were in Davis getting tanked up on rot gut whiskey and becoming rowdy. Finished with the night’s celebration, the three men rode out of town firing their guns in the air. Marshal Myers followed the trio. About half a mile out of town the trio set up an ambush and when Myers arrived they shot and killed him. Myers was survived by his wife and several children.

A party of citizen caught Mahardy at the scene, but Bruner, though wounded, and Gage escaped. Bruner’s blood drops were easily trailed west and he was arrested near Wild Horse Creek. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Mahardy took sick and died before he could be tried. Gage would not be arrested for sixteen years but would be, tried, convicted and also sentenced to life in prison.