Benjamin F Milligan, Deputy Sheriff

Cimarron County Sheriff's Office

About 11:30 A.M. on Thursday, January 7, 1909, Deputy Milligan, 60, arrested Ezra Revis in a feed yard in Boise City to return him to Dalhart, Texas where he had jumped bond. Revis asked if he could use the restroom before leaving the feed yard. Deputy Milligan allowed him to go and waited outside for him. When Revis came out of the restroom he had a pistol and shot Deputy Milligan in the side with the bullet piercing his heart and killing him. Revis stole a nearby horse and rode west out of town never to be seen again. Deputy Milligan was survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild