Scott Cooley (c. 1845 – June 1876) was an Old West Texas Ranger and later outlaw, best known for his association with gunman Johnny Ringo.
While Williamson was being escorted to jail by Worley, an angry mob of German cattle ranchers jerked him aside and shot him to death.
[1] Johnny Ringo and a friend named Bill Williams rode boldly into Mason, Texas on September 25, 1875, riding up in front of the house of James Cheyney, the man who led Gladden and Baird into the ambush.
Major John B. Jones of the Texas Rangers dispatched three parties to pursue Cooley and his followers.
The next day local Sheriff John Clark dispatched a posse of deputies to arrest Bill Coke, suspected of assisting Cooley.
Badly wounded, Miller was saved only by his wife running outside and throwing herself toward him, at which point Johnson simply walked away.
Frustrated, Major Jones asked that if any of them felt they could not perform their duty by pursuing Cooley, they should step forward.
Cooley later escaped a posse near the Llano River, fleeing into Blanco County, Texas, and was never officially seen again.