Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-02
|CHMOND TROOPS
TAKE DRY SLEUTHS
TO SCENE OF TRIAL
'ohibition Agents to Face
Haglstratc for Killing of
Alleged BootIeggers.
ELIMlNARY HEARING
Is HELD AT WOODSTOCK
Demonstration as Accused
Inspectors, With Military Es-
cort, Reach Valley Town.
oLENCE is NOT FEARED
Get, Hall, Sullivan and Dunleavy
Placed in County Jail to
Await Court Action.
FELIMlNARY HEARING
IS HELD AT WOODSTOCK
|oLEScE is NOT FEARED
Get, Hall, Sullivan and Dunleavy
fiacctl In County Jail to
Await Court Action.
tsy Staff Corrcsponden,.l

tb? stan Correspondence
Va, April I.-Escort-
0! company ID, Richmond Blues,
lour prohibition agents charged
killing Raymond Shacklcford and
+"rencc Hudson. alleged bootleggers,
mere last Wednesday morning ar
&c al Woodstock tonight. Contrary
expectations. there was no mob to
81 The men, although there have
multer!ngs OF what was TO be
70 them, all UP and down the VAL
s.uGS theE were set ut liberty on
II. toliewing the inquest over the
.sed bootlcggers TO die from
mas received in the clash.
Soldiers Pick Up Agents.
nc train carrying the soldiers took
the agents In Fredericksburg. where
we're IN the custody OF City Ser
NJ senainna r. n, iSnaicheaier' IN whose charge
shed Prohibition Commissioner j.
Iney Pcters accompanied the men
iar as AlcSandria. Attorney E. b.
Iitiord viii represent the interests
ne dePartment at the trial. He will
Walton. aus Z"
|orming a hollow square, with the
|nioit.on agents IN the. center. the
crowd following. After the Prison
had been locked inside. Major
lrencc wyatt. commanding the
rdsmen, addressed tho crowd. ask
thai there be no trouble, and that
go TO their homes. The crowd,
Ireforc. dispersed.
wect. Hail. Sullivan and Dunlcayy
tho men charged with the alleged
Iron arrival Of the escort and its
| [voy the men were placed In Shcn-
oah county Jail, where they will
|@,ain @ under guard until tomorrow
,reiiminary heafins a' ssfore 10 'e Jasssiee ssyen
4. Irwin, who probably will be
hey arc TO he tried under two var
etlsrs2paas 2as Who Il fsf sea 'hs sms.. e..'nS me OF
|tely after being. shot. The other is
the killing of the boy. Hudson,
jeteen year old companion Of
(;ckleford, who died Friday night in
Winchester hospital.
Eeither Commonwealth's Attorney c.
IWNl!ams, Sheriff w. u. Stouer, nor
ef of Police W. Z. Irwin expect any
Iuble from the people of Shenandoah
| II contend that the men were
-er in danger from mob violence
Re. The crowd that gathered around
agents and their chief. commis-
a hotel at Winchester last Thurs
| night, they say, was made up OF
fderick County people.
They do fear, however. that anti
sympa thizcrs who arc antagonistic
ICommi missioner Peters men Will at
Iipt a demonstration as soon as they
lrn that the men are here. So far
| ry effort has been made to keep
lir arrival secret.
II of Woodstock was surprised to
them arrive tonight. There was
evidence Of animosity. the presence
troops curbing any possibility of an
break. Feeling at Winchester is
~ to be still strong against the
| mis-. At Ilarrisonburg and Staun-
ii certainly is SO. In the southern
: ton of the Valley Ii seems that the
| pie are about evenly split between
sc who want TO draw and quarter
agents and those who want to
@ them medal OF merit. Those
S,spapers that have given voice TO
! opinion in the matter are hourly
3frontcd by subscribers indignant or
ised. There has been no such divi-
:, af feeling since the prohibition
stion first bobbed up in the state.