Former Beevillian Killed
Green CUDE, an officer in Oklahoma, shot by an insane man.
News article, Beeville Bee, Friday, 29 Apr 1909
Mr. Timothy J. Cude received a telegram about noon last Monday conveying the shocking news of the death of his son, Green Pryor Cude, a deputy sheriff of Oklahoma. He immediately took the train for Oklahoma in response to the telegram. On Wednesday copies of Oklahoma papers were received giving the details of the tragedy as follows; Chickasha, Oklahoma, April 19, 1909, James Moore, an Indian, who had recently been released from the insane asylum at Fort Supply, today killed Deputy Sheriff G. P. Cude and later when he saw he could not escape capture turned the gun on himself and blowed out his brains.
The trouble started when Moore drove all the people out of his house at the point of a gun. Officer Cude and Marshall were sent to arrest him and when Cude entered the house he was shot and killed instantly by Moore. Marshall then returned to Alex and raised a posse and returning, surrounded Moore's house. When he refused to surrender, several shots were exchanged and Moore was injured. Not being willing to submit to arrest he killed himself by firing a bullet in his brain.
Officer Cude was one of the best deputies in the county and leaves a wife and five children. Moore had a wife and two children at Tishomingo.
G. P. Cude is remembered by many as a resident of Beeville when little more than a boy in the early 1890s. He was born in 1870 in Live Oak County. He left Beeville about 18 years ago, located in Oklahoma, where he has since resided. Besides his wife Lucy Hoffman Cude and children, he is survived by his father T. J. Cude, a brother, Asa, living in the Panhandle and two sisters, Mrs. Elbert Rape of Beeville and Miss Ozell Cude of Dallas.
