In the following March 14, 1895 Newkirk, Oklahoma, report of a fatal land-claim dispute, E. F. Korns served as one of six coroner’s jurors impaneled by Acting Coroner Pardoe. The jury went to the scene of a shooting, examined the body of Willie Coleman, heard testimony, and returned a verdict that he was killed by a pistol shot fired by Cyrus Cowan.
