Talk:Edward Capehart O'Kelley

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I started this page as a favor for Judi Ries, the great great neice of Edward O'Kelley. In a week or so she will be adding information and then taking over editing as she learns Wikipedia. Soapy 18:28, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edward O. Kelley[edit]

I'd always heard his real name was Ed O. Kelley, but when he told officers that after he shot Ford, they took it down as O'Kelley and it stuck. Was it really the reverse? That seems strange. When you hear the name, you automatically think it's O'Kelley, not O. Kelley. How did anyone get it mixed up as his middle initial in the first place?

Newspaper accounts are most probably the initial cause of the misspellings. Early authors carried on the mistakes in book publications. The debate over the correct spelling of his name ended when family relative, Judith Ries, wrote the biography, Ed O'Kelley - The Man Who Murdered Jesse James' Murderer in 1994. Soapy 03:18, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed it is Ed O'Kelley. In my family he was simply known as Ed Kelley. Many people of irish descent either dropped their "O" or had it mistaken for a middle initial. he was my great uncle, although i don't know a lot about him. My great grandfather and grandfather died before i was born and all family pictures burned in a house fire. skl in missouri —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.251.142.251 (talk) 04:50, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A. G. Paul, the railroad baggage man[edit]

The name of "A. G. Paul" was added recently by an un-named source (217.68.21.230). There is no source for the information.

"Finally, A. G. Paul, a railroad baggage man, came running from the depot, and grabbed O'Kelley's hand, thus releasing Burnett's gun hand. The officer immediately fired two shots, and killed Ed O'Kelley."

I deleted the name until a source for the information can be shown. Soapy 17:01, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article is looking good. The book you mention as a source, Ed O'Kelley: The Man Who Murdered Jesse James' Murderer, do you know the ISBN number for that? HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 18:40, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Dear HighInBC: The ISBN is 0-934426-61-9 Soapy 20:49, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 21:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

jailed for murder[edit]

The article currently skips from the killing of Robert Ford (on June 8, 1892) to O'Kelley's move to Oklahoma City "after his release". Presumably that means release from prison, right? After being arrested, tried, and convicted, and serving some sentence, one surmises. The next thing we know, it's December, 1903.

It would be great to fill in some of that gap. TypoBoy (talk) 22:57, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I do recall that the article did have that information, but someone must have deleted it. Jeff Smith (talk) 23:59, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Citations[edit]

Is there still an ongoing effort to find citations for most of the quotes in this article? If so it is hard to tell if the quotes are credible. Thanks. LiuserK (talk) 17:37, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Citations for Quotes - Years Later...[edit]

Come on folks... These quotes read like a really shitty, mostly-fictional docu-drama. Let's get them removed please. The person that added them CLEARLY has no source(s). Jason Perry, 28 September 2017

No, honest, I was there, I saw it all quite clearly . . . actually, I agree with Jason Perry; this isn't really worthy of an encyclopaedia. Nick Barnett (talk) 16:18, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]