James Casey
James Casey was held in the jail at Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, when, on a Sunday evening in June 1895, he and other prisoners overpowered the jailer and ran into the street. Officers Jackson and Stovall fired on the escaping men, and Casey was shot and killed, according to the Belding Banner's 1896 account. The Morning News of December 1895 gave the place as Oklahoma City, and a Rock Island Argus report from May 1896 also names Officer Jackson's shots as the cause. The papers differ on the location and details of the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by staff. Newspaper accounts from 1895 and 1896 say officers shot James Casey as he tried to escape from the Oklahoma City or Guthrie jail.
Reported by: Belding Banner (1896 newspaper account) (reporters); Oklahoma City jail newspaper report (1895) (reporters).