GEORGE LONEY
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 44-E: 26
Department: Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, S.O.
End of Watch: May 2, 1911
Cause: SHOT
Age: 35
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Sheriff Loney was shot as he and a posse went to a residence to arrest a suspect wanted for stealing and butchering a cow. The posse found a portion of the meat in the barn and arrested the suspect. As Deputy Loney searched the house for the rest of the meat, the suspect's 15 year-old juvenile son shot him in the leg with a Winchester rifle. Deputy Loney died at the scene. The juvenile and his mother, who was also jailed for her role in the killing, were both lynched.
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