The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-17

about. The car carried me probably
4 twenty feet in the melee" 1t was all
! over at 1855 o'clock, said Hall. who had
| looked at his watch. He asked where
the nearest sheriff lived and the Off
GERS went to Deputy-Sheriff Borden's
home and awakened him. Joe Williams
| was instructed by Borden to drive the
! whiskey car to Woodstock. HAN ana
! the other inspectors went to the sher-
IFS house with their car.
Surrender to sheriff.
! The inspectors stated the facts to the
commemorative attorney. who re-
! leased them under $4,000 bond each.
{ They stayed at winchester that night
and the chief of police at that place
told them that, in his opinion, 1t was
not safe for them to longer remain
there They went to Chariestown, w.
Va, and Frederick. Md. and thence to
Fredericksburg. ON the way to Fred
ericksburg the inspectors captured
another car containing whiskey.
+ when we reached fredericksburg
and heard that Hudson was dead" Hall
said, 1--WE surrendered ourselves to Ser
geant Chichester and wired to the COM
monwealth's attorney that we had done
So"
Hall made emphatic denial Of an as
sertion of a man named Goode, at
Woodstock, that Sweet had taken a
drink out of a bottle. TN fact" Hall
, said. Il have never heard of Sweet taxi
, ing Il drink in his life"
The firing. he said, lasted only about
three or four seconds---or long enough
for each man to empty his pistol.
Hall was cross-examined by MIR. will
liams. He stated that he fred Ave
shots; Sweet. five or six; Sullivan.
three, and Dunleavy. six. He said the
curtains of the whiskey car were up
both front and back He again told Of
, how Shackelford reversed his car. put
! the machine in gear, started for the
incline. at the same time firing thrice
When Hall finished firing at Shackel
ford, Hudson grabbed the officer.
Asked whether or not Hudson had a
pistol. Hall said he did not know
/ Asked how old Hudson was, Hail said
| about twenty two" He had known
him for five or six years
Shackelford, he said. was driving the
car and ran down the curve into a bank.
Hall started firing as soon as the boot
! 1rsger fred at him. which was when
| the car started down the incline.
| Hall produced the overcoat which he
wore the night of the tragedy. 1t had
a bullet hole through the breast, with
burns on the inside. Indicating that the
coat was unbuttoned and swing ing
open,
Hall picked up Shackelford's pistol
1t contained three empty shells. The
| weapon was lying in the bottom of the
car. The holster was between the
cushions of the front seat. Shackelford
made no statement to Hall,
The officer denied that he snapped his
pistol in Shackelfords face after shoot
| ing that he had struck the bootleg
ger over the head with the gun.
When Firing Ceased.
Asked If FIVE more shots were not
| fired after the whiskey car had come TO
stop upon running into a bank. Hall
said: mo shots were fred after the car
came to p stop.' Shackelford's pistol
he said, was discovered after it's owner
! rad been lifted out Of the car. shack
elford was not vet dead.
Hall said that he nor his fellow Of
icers did not know the number of the
car shackelford and Hudson were
| coming in" They had general in
formation" on which they stopped
other cars and looked them over" He
said he nor any member of his party
did not draw gun on the occupants
Of any Of them and in every instance
told all Of them that they were OFF,
! GERS The first car stopped was Hupp
oadster
We had no warrant for the arrest Of
any one" Han said. or for the search
ing of any car When we came up 10
the car and saw whiskcy in II, we
merely told the OCCUPANTS to consider
themselves under arrest.
Joseph Williams the chauffeur Of the
officers car. was next called He re-
peated substantially the testimony
given by him at Woodstock. He had
no pistol, he said. was not an officer
and was not under arrest. IT could see
the car he said, land could see that
F, il was loaded with what looked to me
n he % Aar
the impression that the hootieggers
| had given themselves up. when sud
denly the car was reversed then
lpnged forward. the bootleggers firing
during the meantime.
He was positive that the first shot
came from within the whiskey car. He
determined this from the direction OF
the fash. He did not see Hudson do
anything"
Asked by Mr. williams il the fash
could have been from Halls revolver
when he was standing on tho running
board of the car on the opposite side
from Williams. the latter said he did
not think SO.
Williams heard Hudson say that ne
had told Shackelford not to shoot He
said Hall showed him the lump on his
head caused by Hudson hitting him
with whiskey bottle. Hudson he
said, said that he had told his partner"
not to shoot. but did not say whether
he fred or not
Commemorative Attorney williams
at this juncture read into the record
the stenographic transcript of the evil
dence taken at Woodstock before the
magistrates. This included the testi-
mony of several neighbore. who assert
ed they saw the flashes from the pistols
No Malice shown.
e. II. Dunford. counsel for the prohi-
l ms cd
for tho defense. He read many au-
thorities and stressed the fact that no
malice had been shown which would be
necessary to make out case of Nrst