Jack Spaniard, a Cherokee man raised in Cherokee Nation with a criminal record for violence, killed Deputy Marshal William Erwin at Webbers Falls, Indian Territory on April 12, 1886. Spaniard was trying to free Felix Griffin, an associate who Erwin had arrested and was transporting to Fort Smith.
Erwin’s body was found the next day. Despite a $500 reward, Spaniard was not arrested until March 17, 1888. Tried soon after, Spaniard was convicted of murder. He was sentenced to death on April 29, 1889.
Jack Spaniard was hanged at Fort Smith on August 30, 1889.
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