Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-27
PETERS MEN KILL
ONE AND WOUND
ANOTHER ON ROAD
Five Hundred Excited Men
Surge About Hostelry
in Winchester.
COMMISSIONER ATTEMPTS
TO PREVENT CONFLICT
Goes to Scene to Furnish Bail
for Officers in Jail for J..
Killing.
RAYMOND SHACI1LEFORD DEAD
He and l.. ID. Hudson, Both Of Pc.
tcrsburg, Shot Near Woodstock.
Harry Sweet Implicated.
RAYMOND sHACILEFoRD DEAD
He and l.. ID. Hudson, Both OF Pc
tcrsburg, Shot Near Woodstock.
Harry Sweet Implicated.

fnfuristed over the killing ycster-
day morning OF Raymond G. Shackle-
ford and the serious wound;nE of l..
.. Hudson. both of Petersburg. by PRO
hibition agents operating on the Shen-
andoah Turnpike. near Woodstock. a
mob of over 500 men was sureinc.
around hotel in Winchester demand
ing the lives Of Harry T. Sweet.
Harry +. Sweet. Jr. w. c. Hall. j. H.
Sullivan. ]. Doubry and j. Williams.
all OF the Prohibition Department. ac-
cording to reports from that city at
: O'Clock this morning
commissioner OF Prohibition T. Sid
neS refers who had gone to Wood
! stock yesterday to furnish b1il for his
mediatcly after the shooting. was with
the men in the hotel this morning. lie.
ing his influence to persuade the moh
TO dispense.
MOB REFUSES TO HEED
A'PEALs OF POLICE
distance phone. however, that the mon
hung on and would yield neither to his
Pnard Esa;0s threats to turn the home
formed that additional '''iT mobs Dssn from ON
MOO M9ods.ock 10 and and surrounding towns
was fearful OF the outcome
had made an eort to get t'S4 the ma Mayar ng
to call out the home enard, but that
ne ne had no hope of mobilizing it until
he feared the mob would i accompiisS noneiis9
it's i;avprrps purpose; He hesitated to cali the
stating that he was certain that no
State troops could be gotten TO the
scene until too late 10 be Of any
CLAIM THEY SHOT
! MEN IN SELF-DEFENsE.
Tho agents alleGe that they shot the
men men IN lf-defense when they at
ing whisky into the State. They were
aarrrSssied arS for the killing. but have been
Vsasa hs aPpsa,anee in court at
charge era s,oo, Of tn tho agents at the time OF
Harry F. Sweet. former Mas asTsted pelisamagg by
here here. Harry f. Sweet Jry, J. ii. sulIi-
v"b 1GesFy fre% sna Il wiNcbss1nr wj,iams
fhe,,nG fne ptoh,bi,ion ,,i IN. agents had been in
were on their way from Raltimore
with with cargo of whisky. Tuesday
night 1hs they stationed themselves along
every car that passed. At about
o'clock they stopped the car driven
car across the road.
| HALL COMMANDS TWO
MEN TO suRnENDrI,
Hall commanded tho men TO sur
soxa h anu was recognized. Then. he
car and escape. 1t is alleged that the
aEents then opened fire on the car
was stopped shackieford hki was pas0rf dean II
when the men reached him. Two but.
Mudsn ets mad en- entered his side and abdomen.
1uuson was shot in the breast and i'm
! the stomach. 80
,si, ht ~ the = hospital Hudson stated tina,
at the agents. Both had revoivers.
hhowever' but there is said 10 hav,.
esG Sesn no Shs evldenes c Of their having been
a pocket half full of cartridges. ~"
snack ford's body was also carried
IT is alleged that the agents found
aS? Quarts Of whisky in the automobils
a Baltimore whisky mcrchant ' y
Special Agent w. b. Dunlavey was siso
r;,,ih In the party held under bail for the
tween the agents and the alleged boot
. lcsSers preceded the tragedy. One YER
sen1,,,;n si1n Is that ono ono OF the men was at
with bottle OF whisky when he VAS
at Woodstock following the shootin. I:'
Comm issioner OF Prohibition 7. Sidney
dsy wss 9aed and to Their aid yester
$4,000 for their liberation Winchester
reports say that feeling against the
,
! thought best to keep them in ia until
they were ready to return to Rich
mond.
CLAIM PETERSBURG MAN
SOUGHT TO RESCUE CAR
Reports from Petersburg last night
stated that Shackleford bore q good
reputation there and was considered \
substantial citizen. His wife, IL was
said. stated thrt her husband had told
her before going away that he had
been offered $50 TO go TO the rescue or
a liquor car that had broken down
while on the way from Baltimore Hc
had been engaged in the taXicab b busj-
! mess for some time and Is said TO hayc
operated saloon In Danville before
the prohibition law was passed
Mrs. Shackleford has ordered hIa
body shipped to Raleigh, NJ c., where
the home of her father. T.. r. Thomas
Arre~t Noted Artist.
SAN FRANCISCO March os -vah
ert Paine. sculptor OF renown, who
conceived and produced several sta.
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