Bat engaged in his last known gunfight while acting as an Arapahoe County Deputy Sheriff. On April 6, 1897, he went to polling booth at 18th and Larimer Street on a report that one candidate's judges had thrown the challenger's judges from the polling place. Upon his arrival, Bat Masterson found this to be the case. He ordered the ballot counting to cease immediately. Tim Connors, a booth official, opposed this and pulled a gun. Masterson fired his gun hitting another booth official in the hand. That caused Connors to re-think his plan and he dropped his gun. The other judges were allowed back into the polling booth where the vote counting continued without further incident.
Bat Masterson died October 25, 1921, as he sat at his desk writing the sports column for the telegraph Newspaper in New York City.
