Jake Henderson, City Marshal

City of Dustin

On the night of Saturday, October 11, 1941, Marshal Henderson,40, had ordered two drunk Fort Sill soldiers to leave a bar and go home. A short time later Marshal Henderson saw the two men on the street and arrested them. Soon another soldier, John Gordon, 20, who had been drinking with the first two, learned that they had been arrested. Gordon went to the city jail and pleaded with Henderson to release his two friends. When Henderson refused to release the two men, Gordon went to his car, got a 12-gauge shotgun, returned to the jail where he shot Marshal Henderson in the abdomen. Marshal Henderson died three days later on October 14th.

Thomas J. Little, City Marshal

City of Dustin

On Saturday, August 20, 1927, Marshal Little, 53, had seized some illegal liquor and had hidden it until he could come back and transport it. When he went back to retrieve it for some unknown reason he took with him a young man named Homer Self, 23. Self was able to get the Marshal’s gun and shoot him in the chest with it, killing him. Some believe the liquor belonged to Self. Self was convicted of killing the Marshal.