This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sitton, Bobbitt Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4301 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. March 16, 1922. "TRAGIC DEATH OF JESS SITTON".-- Full particulars of the death of Jesse Sitton at Cheyenne, Wyoming, have been learned from a letter from his wife, formerly Miss Merle Bobbitt of this place, to the relatives here. "On the night of March 2, Mr. Sitton, who held a position as special officer with the railroad company, observed a man whom he took to be a negro or Mexican sneaking behind a pile of ties in the yards.He followed the prowler and demanded to known what he was doing there. The man replied, "I'll show you what I'm doing" and shot Mr. Sitton in the chest with a 45 caliber revolver. The heavy ball passed entirely thru one lung and lodged in the spine causing paralysis of the entire body below the wound. With their son, Gerald, the wife of the wounded man hurried to his bedside and helped to comfort and soothe him until the end which came Saturday night March 4 at ten o'clock. The body was laid to rest at Cheyenne Tuesday. It is said that indignation is ro high that should the murderer by ....(unreadable).....summarily.