The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, May 1, 1898
pg. 2

WALKER MARTIN SUICIDES
Walker Martin, a well known cattleman of the Choctaw nation, committed suicide at Cale last Saturday night by taking a dose of morphine.  Joe Perry who was here Monday funished the Gazetteer the particulars.

Walker owed Mr. Perry over $1000, which was borrowed about a year ago.  The money was borrowed on the supposition that Mr. Martin had considerable stock.
Mr. Perry met Martin at Ardmore, and he declared that he could not pay the borrowed money, and that if Mr. Perry would meet him at Cale that he would turn over a sufficient number of cattle to make the debt good.  Mr. Perry went to Cale as directed.  Saturday night Walker left a note in his room directed to Mr. Henry Speeks of the hotel, stating that he had left intent on self-destruction.  The body was found alongside the Katy track; life was not yet extinct, but he died shortly after being removed to the hotel.  Martin did not have any cattle and remorse of conscience prompted the deed.  The deceased was well known in Denison, and during the war he was a gallant Confederate soldier.  He was buried at Cale Sunday.