The Oklahoman
12-01-1922
p.12/20

BRYAN COUNTY OFFICER SHOT

Unknown Assailant Fires Load Of Buckshot Into Body Of Ben Risner

DURANT, Nov.30 -(Special)- Ben Risner, BRYAN COUNTY deputy sheriff,
was laidly wounded at 11 o'clock Wednesday night as he entered his
home at Bennington, twenty miles east of here, y an unknown assailant.
A load of buckshot was fired into his body. The shot inflicted
wounds from his head to his feet, some entering his stomach.

Risner was brought immediately to the Durant hospital where the
physicians probed for the bullets. They say there is no chance for
his recovery.

Risner has made a hard fight on the violators of prohibition and it is
thought by the people of Bennington that some law violator was his
assailant. He has been a deputy sheriff for three years and had done
very effective work in stopping law violations in the eastern section
of BRYAN COUNTY.


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