The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-28
'QOifI IS IS KESfURtb
AT WOODSTOCK; ALL
TROUBLE PASSED
Mayor Ward Declares
Outbreak" Was Due
to Curiosity.
INQUEST BE GIN S
Indications Are Inquiry
| May Consume Several
| Days-Take Hudson's
| Deposition.
INQUEST EGIN S

A telegram received yesterday after
noon by Acknowledgement 10 Lane
Stern from Woodstock declared that
excitement incident to the killing at
that place early Wednesday morning
of one alleged bootlegger and the
wounding of another had abated and
that all cause for apprehension was
believed 10 have passed.
The message wss signed by Captain
Logan K. Fay, whose company of
Winchester guardsmen was called out
vest erday morning by Mayor Ward. of
the Shenandoah city, to quell a posi-
BILE disturbance on the part of a sup
posed mob reported as surrounding
the hotel where were housed four pro-
hibition officers who figured the day
legged bootleggers. The guardsTnen
were dismissed yesterday afternoon.
General Stern said that Prohibition
Commissioner Peters got him on the
long distance telephone yesterday
morning and asked him what he was
going to do in the matter of furnish
ing military aid to restore order.
General Stern thereupon: got into
communication with Mayor Ward.
company OF guardsmen. Mayor Ward
informed General Stern that the tenn
per OF the crowd was not inclined to-
ward violence and that curiosity.
more than anything else. had caused
them to gather in what appeared to
be a formidable m oh.
The prohibition ofricers--Harzs
y. Sweet. his son; w. G. Hall, J. H.
Sullivan. Jr., J. Dunlevy and J. VIII
liams-put up at the hotel in Wan
chester following the encounter with
the alleged bootIeSgers, in which Ray
mond Shackelford. of Petersburg. was
killed. and l.. ID. Hudson was wounded.
INQUEST UNDER WAY
A coroner'a inquest over the body
of Shackefford began yesterday after
noon at O'Clock and advices from
indicate that the proceed
tngs will continue probably for several
ton agents are out on bail, a bond OF
$4,000 having been furnished by
Commissioner Peters. who hurried to
the scene shortly after receipt of adj
vice of the trouble
l.. u. Hudson, companion of Shack
eiford, in the automobile intercepted
by the officers. and who was wounded
below the heart, declared yesterday in
dispositions taken by the sheriff and
commonwealth attorney that the
agents fired the only shots. Neither
he nor Shackelford. he deposed. fired
a shot Shackelford's pistol, which is
said to have been found with three
empty chambers. was held for the in
quest 4, +s.>.,.
Hudson said that, upon being halted
by the agents. Shackelford demanded
10 know upon what authority they
had been stopped and demanded to
see search warrants. Upon receiving
the reply that search warrants were
unnecessary. according to Hudson.
Shackelford started his car, where
upon the officers opened fro. Hudson
said
PREY UPON EACH OTHER
Agents OF tho United States depart
ment OF Justice hero, In commenting
on the Winchester situation. said yes
terday that gangs Of liquor transport
ers are preying upon one another on
tho highways OF the state
Practically all transporters, n fed
eral agent said, arc heavily armed
Sometimes, he added, tho weapons are
used against officers of the law and
on two occasions federal agents have
been fred upon A. q general propo-
kition. he said. tire transportars carry
pistols to prevent rival transporters
from holding them Up and taking
their liquor.
Hudson win prohaofy i've. his moth
q. Mra, l. W. Hudson. of Danville-
was told over iong-distance telephone
yesterday. He IL eighteen years old
and 1t one time was employed AZ 3
Western Union messenger in that city.
More recently he worked as a transfer
driver in Petersburg.
Shackeford. according 10 4 report
from Danviilo yesterday. pleaded
guilty to charge OF moonshining in
tho United States court In that city
In January and served = term.
Hall Fearless Oniccr
~@@ W. C. Hall, q 7faSfnosr Of tire paf1y
Of state prohibition inspectors alleged
to have BEEN the cause Of the death OF