Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-07-18
GOLDSBORO. n c.. THURSDAY. JULY Is, 1895.
DISPENSARY MUDDLE.
An Ex-Liquor Dealer Sentenced to Eight
Months imprisonment.

An Ex-Liquor Dealer Sentenced to Eigh
Months imprisonment.
Columbia, S. c., July ia
few days ago the State authori
ties began to apply to ex-liquo1
dealers. a section Of the State
dispensary law which provides
that a Circuit Judge can enjoin
any man from selling liquor and
in case he violates it. permitting
him to be hauled up for contempt
of court, that the Judge can
then, on almost any kind of d
showing, declare him guilty and
sentence him to the peniuentiary
doing away with the cCnSti tu-
tional right of trial, by jury,
which is guaranteed to every
man. In accordance with this
policy. VIM. Sheppard, an ex-
liquor dealer, was jerked up here
yesterday before Circuit Judge
Townsend, His attorney made
a brilliant fight for the preserva-
ton of the constitutional right.
This afternoon about 5 o'clock
the Judge rendered his opinion
overruling the objections of
Sheppard's attorney, adjudging
Sheppard guilty of contempt and
sentenced him to eight months
Imprisonment in the State peni-
tentiary and to pay a fine of
5000. Before the sun had set
pistols were cracking at rapid
rate on one of the principal
streets of the city, Gervais street
and Sheppard was being carried
to the State prison like a mur-
derer with blood streaming from
his garments, there being wounds
in his legs and neck. The war
rant for arrest and commitment
was placed in the hands of Lii
quor Constable Speed for ser
vice. He got his force of men
out, and they finally surrounded
Sheppards place of business.
No one was in there but Shep-
card. Some fifteen or twenty
shots were fired, all together.
Civilian and city witnesses say
that Constable jenkins started
the fusilade, firing in the store al
Sheppard three times before an
other report was heard. The
constables say that they called on
Sheppard to surrender, that he
refused to do SO, whipped out
two pistols and began to fire at
Constable Speed. Speeds hand
ard neck were grazed by bullets.
Constable Jenkins, who was u.s.
ing two pistols, had his neck
grazed by bullet. Chief of Po-
lice Daily, who was close at hand,
had difficulty in getting jenkins,
to stop firing, he says. Consta-
BILE Holloway fred four or five
shots into the store, too. Eight
bullets are imbedded in a par
tItion in the store near which
Sheppard was standing in
side and Sheppard almost shot
him before he saw who he was.
IShepherd stated to him that he
would surrender to him, but to
nobody else. He was taken out
into the street, placed in a wagon
and carried to the State peniten-
tiary, where his wounds were
dressed. The constables tell a
different story of the battle from
any of the other witnesses.
Speed said he went inside and
called on Sheppard to surrender
Sheppard told him he would not,
and pulled two pistols, firing at
him twice before he could get his
own pistols out. Then he says
Sheppard lodged behind a screen
and kept up his firing. Jenken
and the other fired in from this
outside. When Sheppard fell he
walked out and as he was going
out Sheppard fred again. Jen-
kins tells a story agreeing with
Speed is essential particulars.
Sheppard's two pistols, when
taken from him, along with a ra-
zor, showed a total of four empty
chambers. Sheppard is an ole
liquor dealer here. but the evil
dence adduced at the hearing
yesterday was to the effect thai
he had given up the business as
soon as the Injunction was
passed upon him.
His brother was arrested to-
day for violating the dispensary
law. Considerable exc1temen
was occssioned by the shooting
| AttorneyGeneral Barber has
applied for writ of habeos coa,pat
before justice Fuller in the case
of La Far, one of the constable:
| jailed by Judge Simonton fol
lcontempt in violating his liquor
injunction order.
These Frightening Times.