Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1902 — Shoots Railway Detective. [ARTICLE]

Shoots Railway Detective.

Roy Gilbert was arrested at Sparta, Tenn., because he shot and fatally wounded Benjamin Ramsay, a railroad detective. The shooting occurred at the scene of a recent serious railroad wreck caused by the throwing of a switch. Gilbert was suspected and Ramsay was working up the case. Engineers have arrived at Muskogee, I. T„ to survey the Missouri, Kansas and Texas extension from Wybark up the Arkansas valley to Guthrie and will begin work at once.