Billy Bruner, born in 1872, was sent to the penitentiary for accidentally killing U. S. Marshal Moody. He was a friend of Ohio Governor McKinley of Ohio, who became president of the United States in 1887. McKinley pardoned Billy in 1898.
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Preservation and archiving of this significant Tulsa treasure of photographs and artifacts was made possible through the Tulsa City-County Library and the Tulsa Historical Society, and the generosity of Tulsa World/Lorton Family, Chester Cadieux, the Rotary Club of Tulsa, and many other community-minded corporations, institutions and individuals.