The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-28
Two Bullets Fired Into One of the Most Popular Officers
 in the County
SERVING PAPERS
 NEAR DOLOMITE
offered Fly the Sheriff for Capture of Fred Spencer, Negro Who
 Did the Shooting

Bessemer, April 27.-(Special.) )-As re- suit of cold blooded, murderous assault by drunken negro at Dolomite this afternoon, Capt. B. II. Young of Bes- semer. one of the most popular deputies in the sheriff's department, is at the point of death, his entire body paralyzed from. bullet wound in the neck and another one just under the nose.
 The shooting happened shortly before negro, Fred Spencer, had been drinking during the day and had frightened the people about Dolomite. He shot a negro woman three times, but it is not thought that any of her wounds will prove fatal.
 In the meantime a request had been made upon the sheriff's office for some enc to come out and arrest the negro. Captain Young was serving papers in Doomite shortly before o'clock and was on his way to the negro quarters when he came face to face with Spencer
 Captain Young had known nothing of the trouble which Spencer had been ere ating during the day and had no idea when he was walking towards the negro that murder was lurking in his mind. As he reached the negro the latter said. well, I guess you've come to get me, and suddenly drawing a pistol fired twice in rapid succession. Captain Young dropped to the ground unconscious while the negro made his escape. The scene of the shooting was immediately behind the Parsons pool room at Dolomite.
 A posse of deputies was rushed to the scene from Birmingham in an automobile, while others close by. were rushed to the scene Bloodhounds were taken from Bessemer to Dolomite and the trail taken. It was followed for about two miles, when it was lost in a macadamized road The supposition is that the negro board ed wagon here and travelled for It. tie distance.
 All of the afternoon and until late in the night large posse secured the woods around Dolomite in search of the negro, but without success.
 Captain Young has long been regarded as one of the best men of the sheriffs department. He was widely known, es- peclaliy around fbeSSe1neT, ana mas a lOnR line of intimate friends. who are grea tly wrought up over the affair. Should the negro be captured by his friends short work will probably be made of him.
 Sheriff Higdon has offered a reward of $10o for the capture of the negro.
 Description of the negro is that of one of dark ginger color, weight about 140 pounds, age 23, right hand crippled. He wore wide brinmed, black Stetson hat and a new, yellow shirt, which he had bought only a few minutes before the shooting. He did not wear a coat.
 Dr. F. w. Gwin and another doctor of Dolomite waited upon Captain Young at Dolomite and did everything possible to relieve him. Later in the afternoon he was removed to Bessemer, where it was stated that his condition was extremely low.
 This is the first serious shooting af- fray in which a member of the sheriff department has been wounded during IIigdons term as sheriff.
 Up to an early hour this morning Spen- cer was still at large. He is thought to be hiding somwhere in the woods about uJi1kea hetween Dolonits and E,uslev