The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-10
NEGROES FLEEING FROM DEPu.
 TIES ARE FIRED ON AND BROUGHT TO A HALT.
One Had Shot and Killed Negro Here Early in Morning and With Brother Was Escaping From
 This County.

Ben and Lawyer Bunch, two negro refugees, were shot and wounded late yesterday afternoon If miles south of the cfsy by Deputy Sheriffs Sid Houpt and Ben Murray, and their capture effected. after the first named had shot and instantly killed Tom Shay CTS, another negro, in this city early in the morning.
 One of the negroes received a wound in the fieshy part of the lSwer < arm, which broke no bonas. and the other was shot through the upper shoulder, the bullet passing through the feshy part of the neck. and out under the right side of the jaw. Both with recover.
 8 About 530 o'clock yesterday morn. ing Ben Bunch shot and instantly killed Tom Shavers. porter in Spur lin's saloon, near Elm and Orange streets. The shooting, according to statement made by Bunch after being 4 arrested. was the result of Shayers striking him over the head with a pistol earlier in the evening. q Bunch returned to the saloon just about daylight with a shot gun and a \ Winchester rife, and opened fire with x the shot gun at Shavers. but missing him. used the Winchester. firing two $ bullets into the body of Shaver. either of which would have proved fatal Immediately afer the shooting Ben Bunch escaped. It appears he joined his brother, Lawyer Bunch, ard to- gether they took to the woods south of the city.
 Deputy Sid Houpt and Deputy Ben Murray were soon after the fleeing negroes, and about II miles from the city. after a long chase. got within obout 100 yards of them in the road. The negroes saw the officers and took to the rough woods
 Dismounting. the officers went in pursuit. and the next they saw of the tTo blacks they were standing with their heads together evidently plan ming an attack, their coats held be- tween themselves and the officers in hiding something they held
 The officers kept on after the blacks. and they fled instead of open ing the fire the officers expected The chase lasted for some time. until fin ally the officers were in close range, though the country was mountainous and the negroes taking the toughest part of 1t for their path.
 Ii was chen that both of the of fieers opened fire on the men after having ordered them to halt Each officer shot one of the negroes once, saw they had each wounded their man So that capture alive could be effect ed. and then chased them long dis tance until they weakened and went down.
 \ Deputy Constable Houpt came on to tae city and reported the matter to Sheriff Houpt and later Deputy Con. stable Albert Howard and Deputy Coroner Etchervarne. having heard She negroes were killed, and that other negroes were going out that way, started to the scena. when they met the officers returning with the wounded men.
 The negroes were placed in the county jail after receiving medical at. tention
 In the afternoon an inquest was held over the body of Tom Shavers, negroes being on the jury. which agreed that he had met death at rne hands of Ben Bunch, and the jury yer dict recommended that Bunch be held for first degree murder
 The wounded negroes evidently had pistols when they left the city and when they made the first stand againsa tho officers In the rough