Arizona republican., 1918-04-05
OFFICER KILLS
 B0OTLEGGER IN
 MAKING ARREST
Man is Fatally Wounded by
 Constable in Attempt To Smuggle Large Quantity of Whisky Into the State

The ranks of the bootleggers in Phoenix were reduced by one last night when L. F. Brown died at the Sisters hospital a few minutes after he was brought there unconscious from a gun- shot wound in the head, inflicted by Constable Haze Burch who had fired believing his own life to be threatened. The killing of Brown took place at the junction of the Henshaw road and Six tecnth street. a little after o'clock yesterday evening.
 Immediately after the shooting the car. a large Hudson super-six laden with ten cases of whisky and the un- conscious form of Brown was brought 10 the police station, and Brown after a brief examination was taken to the hospital.
 At half past four o'clock Constable Burch applied 10 Justice Wheeler for a John Doe warrant. He said that he understood that bootlegger was going to bring a car of whisky into town and that he would cross Sixteenth street
 
 at the meeting of the two thorough fares is related by the constable and his statement is corroborated by c. L. Gish who was in the whisky freighted car.
 The constable said that about 6 o'clock he saw two cars approaching Sixteenth street on the Henshaw road Both were rapidly driven. As the first car approac ched he stepped into the roaf And ordered it to stop The driver paid no attention to the command and almost ran the officer down. The con stable supposing that the two cars be- longed together, then, when the hind most car was at a distance of 75 yards he threw back his coat, displaying his badge and at the same time he waved his gun in the air.
 Brown was at the wheel. As the car neared the officer Brown crouched for ward and appeared to give the car more juice. When the car was even with the constable the latter fired two shots over the car and then he saw one hand of Brown leave the wheel. The car had now covered a distance of thirty yards. The constable having in mind the desperation of the boot leggers who had shot at officers at iththNN v anu ltdI ltlt -AS ud lt- solved to take no chances and fired directly at the man at the wheel. The car came to a stop and the constable running up found Brown crumpled down in the car. He ordered Gish to hold up his hands; he called to him the second time and one hand went up. The other .seemed to be feeling for something on the seat. Again the of ficer asked him to hold up his hand. l,te -a.l ;.l, took the gun from the seat and handed it to the officer. a 32-Colt on heavy frame.
 Gish was taken into custody on the arrival of the car in town and later he was questioned by County Attorney Laney and Assistant County Attorney Harry Johnson. He corroborated the statement of the officer as to the cir cumstances immediately preceding the shooting. When asked whether Brown speeded the car when he was ordered to stop, Gish said he was not sure; he could not say. He said that when Burch came up to the car. he said to him You've shot him. Its too bad" the constable replied. ''I hate it."
 Gish and Brown had been living at the Den rooming house whose pro- prietress Mrs. Belle Evans was lately convicted of attempting to facilitate the escape of her husband. Cole Evans when she learned that the sheriffs of ficers were trying to intercept him while bringing liquor into town. II was the Evans car Brown was driving the ono that was caught at Buckeye al the time of the arrest of Evans. Il was also stated that Brown was 2 member of the party which fired at tn, officers on another occasion and ther sprang from the car and escaped.
 Gish said that about noon yesterday Brown asked him if he would ride witt him into the country. Gish agreed anC they met at the railroad depot. As tC whcre they went Gish could not say and concerning the whisky in the car though there were ten cases of pin bottles. Gsh said he did not know where it had been obtained. It was il the tonneau in sacks and he had no thought to ask what the sacks con- tained. The whisky was first taken tC the office of the justice but later it wa: removed to the sherirf-s office.
 Brown was about twenty eight years of age and little is known of him out side bootlegger circles. The police be- lieve they have a record of him. Or account of his size. something over six feet he was known as the Little Giant"
 Justice Wheeler last night impaneleo a jury composed of Walter Hyat, Clar- ence Barnett, l., F.. Graham, Richard Allen, Luke w. Henderson and Phi McRae. After viewing the body the in quest was adjourned until this morn inE. Beside the constable and Gisf there will be another witness a boy who came up 10 the officer in the road just before the shooting began.
 Where the officer received his tip a, ia the movements of the car is not stated. But day or two ago. a mar reported to him a conversation he had overheard in a barber shop between Brown and another man in whicl Brown said "The officer who gets m, win have to be quick with a gun fol I'm something of a shooter myself The officer remembered that when ht saw Brown crouch forward in the car