The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-04-20
A BRAVE POLICEMAN KILLED.
Commissioner.

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Commissioner.
A BRAVE POLICEMAN KILLED.
His Drunken AssaiIant is Fatally
Shot bv Another officer.
A dispatch to The State says ter
rible affair took place Tuesday night
in Greenville in the vicinity OF the
Southern railway on Washington
street and Immediately adjacent tc
Wilson'S beer dispensary on Cooke
street, in which Policeman J. P.
Tucker was mortally wounded by Ellis
Sanders, who in turn was fatally shot
by Policeman Z. J. Brown, whom San
ders slightly wounded in the thigh.
Policeman Tucker died Wednesday
evening. The shooting took place On
King street near the corner OF Cooke.
where the beer dispensary is located,
and over which Sanders had a room.
He was night watchman of the South.
ern railway.
The origin Of the trouble was the
arrest Of negro woman by Policemen
Tucker and Brown in the afternoon,
which incensed Sanders on account OF
his relations with the woman, aud be
procured her release on bail at the city
nall. She is a notorious woman, and
was arrested for being drunk and dis
orderly.
Just before 9 O'Clock Tuesday night
Brown and Tucker left the home OF
the latter on Hampton avenue and
went in the direction Of the railroad
station, which was their beat, and on
reaching the corner OF Cooke street
they were accosted by Sanders, whc
was under the influence Of liquor, and
be cursed them for arresting the negro
woman.
Tucker expostulated with Sanders,
saying they were obliged to make th:
arrest, and talked in a quiet manner
to Sanders, who pulled his pistol from
underneath his overcoat and fired dir
ectly at Tucker in a few feet of him,
the ball entering the abdomen and
cutting the intestin S in Is places be-
sides making three inch incision OF
the bladder. Sanders turned his pis-
tol instantly upon Brown and inhicte d
a Slight wound in bis thigh, by which
time Brown began firing at Sanders,
striking him in four places, one wound
in the breast and another in the
stomach, either Of which would prob
ably prove fatal.
Mr.. Tucker did not use his pistol at
all, and said that his wound threw
him at once of his balance, but he
could have returned the fire in a few
seconds afterwards only that the
shooting was over in such short time
that there was no occasion for it. He
was taken at once to his home, where
several physicians had been SUM-
moned, and it was decided to take
him without delay to DIR. Blacks
sanitarium.
Sanders went to his room over the
beer dispensary and climbed the stairs
with the assistance Of a negro man,
going straight to his bed and was
lying down when the sheriff and ply
sicians reached him, and il a few
hours be was also taken to Blacks
sanitarium. 1t is hardly possible that
he can rally from his wounds, and his
death is expected at any moment.
Sanders fred only the two shots and
dropped his pist i when Brown opened
on him with five shots, four Of which
took effect, as already stated. San
ders had a cartridge belt around his
body and another pistol was in his
bed. He was desperate man, and
about a year ago tried to shoot Chief
Kennedy in front of the police station
the chief narrowly escaping a wound
similar to the one Tucker received
Tuesday night.
No man on the police force was
more dreaded than Tucker by the
criminal class, as he was fearless and
untiring in the suppression OF crime,
and was gifted with the natural in
st:nct Of detective, which made him
very unpopular with eyildoers Of every
Kind. He was universally esteemed
by the community, and there is gen.
eral sorrow at the fatal termination CT
his wound.
Policeman Tucker died ats o'clock
wednesday afternoon, meeting his
fate bravely and fearlessly and telling
his children it was all right with him
in the other world, where be would
meet their mother, who died ~ years
ago. The funeral was held at t o'clock
Thursday afternoon in the First Bap-
tist church Of which he was mem
Der.
The brave officer was about so years
old and had been on the force y years.
Two Drowned.
A dispatch from Washington under