On September 27, 1897, as the season’s cotton crop was being harvested, George Cully watched as Dick Carr was paid for his load of cotton in Muskogee. Cully, who was Black, then waited for Carr to return to his remote farm in Choska, robbing and killing him as he traveled.
Cully was arrested shortly after. In addition to killing Carr, Cully was linked to the murder of a shopkeeper in Miami a few days earlier.
On trial in federal court in Muskogee, Cully was found guilty of murder on October 28, 1897, and sentenced to death on December 24.
George Cully was hanged in Muskogee on July 21, 1899.
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