Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas August 31, 1889 A BAD MAN Last Sunday U. S. Deputy Heck Thomas brought into Fort Smith from the Territory Oscar Coulter, a desperado, wanted in Logan County. In 1881, when but 18 years of age, Coulter was indicted in Georgia for arson and, escaping from the sheriff, came to this state and joined his relatives in Logan County. His early training fitted him exactly for his assumption of the character of "the bad man from Georgia" which he endeavored to carry out to the letter. His numerous escapades gave his relatives a great deal of trouble, so much indeed that Charles B. Maysey, a cousin, notified Georgia authorities of his whereabouts. His arrest and conviction followed and a term of five years in the penitentiary did not serve to lessen the ill feeling with which he regarded the cousin who had given him up to justice. When arrested he swore vengeance against him and immediately upon his release posted off to Arkansas with blood in his eye. Arriving at Golden City, where his relatives resided, he stopped all night with a man named Gillespie and on the following morning rode up to Charles Maysey's store and dismounted. Coulter immediately began abusing Maysey for having been the cause of his arrest. Both drew their pistols and opened fire about the same time, Coulter receiving a shot in the neck and Maysey dying from a bullet in the brain. The former cooly mounted his horse and rode away, the terrified onlookers not daring to move a hand. Shortly after his departure he was pursued, but the trail was abandoned at the territory line where it was lost. Since that time Coulter is supposed to have wandered though California, Arizona and New Mexico, and to have been connected with the train robbery of last summer near Muskogee. Fran Alverson Warren