This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beatty Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/7112 Message Board Post: Floyd Beatty, 20 year old, who was shot Tuesday afternoon by Charlie Williams, 60 years old, in an argument over a cow near their homes in Capitol Hill died at the University hospital at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Beatty had signed his dying statement in the presence of Mont R. Powell, assistant county attorney, his sister-in-law and a newspaper man, in which he delared Williams shot him in the back after he started to run away from him. The statement follows: "I, Floyd Beatty, being of a clear mind and realizing that I am about to die and believeing there is no hope of recovery wish to make the following voluntary statement. "Mr. Williams was coming west on the street south of G street. I was going north on Shartel. He told me "I've got your cow, you've got to pay me a dollar to get her." I told him he had enough already without charging me another dollar. He called me a _____________and said. 'You better go home.' I started on home, then he shot me in the back side I started to run then he said, ''I've got you now ________run.' "I had a small piece of two-by-four in my hand about as big as half a brick. I picked it up before I saw Mr. Williams. I had no reason to pick it up. I did not know I was going to see Mr. Williams when I picked it up. I didn't try to do any thing to Mr. Williams. He didn't have any reason to shoot me." Following the shooting Williams surrendered to officers. A charge of assault with intent to kill was fileds the day after the shooting in the courtof Leo B. White, justice of the peace. Williams was arraigned before White and entered a plea of not guilty and was released on $5,000. bond. When Williams learned Sunday morning that the boy had died at the hospital her went voluntarilly to the county jail and submitted to imprisonment. Forrest L. Hughes, county attorney, when he filed the assault with intent to kill charge in White's court, said that in case the boy died the charge would immediatley be changed to one of murder. The murder charge had not been filed by Hughes early Monday morning. Little hope was held out for the recovery oof Beatty after he was taken to the hospital authorities called the county attorney's office and told Mont R. Powell that the boy was dying. The body was taken to Rankin, Oklahoma for burial in White Rose Cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Elk City Daily News, Elk City, OK