Volume 11 , Issue 22

1938 - Highway Officer Stabbed At Alva

On August 30, 1938, page 3 of The Okalhoman, there was a story of a theater man arrested for knife attack of a highway officer stabbed at Alva.

As the story goes Henry Jones, 62 years old, was freed on $1,000 bail Monday, in August, 1938, when he charged with assault with a deadly weapon upon Strafford Duke, highway patrolman. Duke suffered seven knife wounds in the thigh, which he said Jones inflicted.

The disagreemtn arose when Duke was seen by Jones to stop a stranger in Alva and give him a ticket for lacking a tail light on his car. Jones intervened. Jones was connected with his son in the Jones Amusement Company, in Alva, Oklahoma, a theater firm. Preliminary hearing was set for September 12, 1938.
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