People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — A STAGE HELD UP. [ARTICLE]

A STAGE HELD UP.

The Deadly Work of One Lone Highwayman in the West. Wagoner, I. T., June 12. —Saturday afternoon a lone highwayman, Levi Sanders, a desperate Cherokee character, held up a stage on the road between Fort Gibson and Talequah, where the big Cherokee payment was in progress. He made the passengers get out and secured S7O and some jewelry. One man was shot through the lungs and was left in a precarious condition. The robber then left, going toward Talequah. On the way he shot and killed an Indian boy who was herding cattle, and took his horse and again took to the road, where the robber came upon two wagons. He shot into one of the wagons and killed a woman. The men began shooting at Sanders, who was finally shot literally to pieces.