James H. Gibson, Night City Marshal

City of Dewey

About 2 A.M. on Tuesday, April 27, 1915, Marshal Gibson tried to arrest Nathan Bozarth, who was drunk and holding a crowd at bay with his gun after shooting one man. When Marshal Gibson approached Bozarth he was shot in the chest and abdomen by Bozarth. Marshal Gibson, 40, died from his wounds the afternoon of May 5th in a Bartlesville hospital. Bozarth was later cornered in a livery barn by a deputy sheriff and committed suicide before he could be arrested.