Randolph Cathey

Randolph W. Cathey, a 30-year-old male assistant city marshal in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, spent the last evening of his life much as he had many others, moving between the town’s cafes and saloons as he enforced local ordinances in a community increasingly divided over liquor and law. In the months leading up to his death, Cathey had become the particular enemy of Jim Stephenson a local saloon or “joint” operator. After Cathey arrested Stephenson’s nephew for violating city liquor ordinan ...